Media and Theatre Studies
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Key Facts
P3W4-
UCAS Tariff
120 - 96
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Course duration
3 years
Further details on entry requirements
Apply NowIf you are looking for an exciting, diverse and challenging programme combining theory and practice, then our Media and Theatre Studies degree at Aberystwyth University is for you. Our degree is designed to empower you to develop your skills and capacities as a theatre-maker and creative thinker, supported by internationally-recognised staff with a wide range of expertise. You will look beyond historic and established forms to explore what theatre and performance can be now and in the future.
Across the three years of the degree, we will engage you in a process of investigation and questioning that extends your critical and creative capacities and builds your practical skills. You will encounter and explore a wide range of contemporary theatre practices, from scripted drama to site-specific performance and from Shakespeare to experiments in new media.
The Media component of this degree will allow you to study in great detail the following: advertising, news analysis, website design, digital culture, surveillance society, gender and the media, media history and policy together with creative practice experience in multi -platform production and experimental media. Your three years of study will be dynamic, invigorating and stimulating.
Course Overview
Modules September start - 2024
Please note: The modules listed below are those currently intended for delivery during the next academic year and may be subject to change. They are included here to give an indication of how the course is structured.
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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Studying Communication | FM10720 | 20 |
Studying Media | FM10620 | 20 |
Theatre in Context 1 | TP11020 | 20 |
Theatre in Context 2 | TP11320 | 20 |
Options
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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Making Short Films 1 | FM11520 | 20 |
Site-Specific Performance Project | TP11420 | 20 |
Studio Theatre Project | TP11120 | 20 |
Studying Television | FM10220 | 20 |
Body, Voice, Expression. | TP10220 | 20 |
Body, Voice, Perception | TP10120 | 20 |
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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Options
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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Acting for Camera | TP25920 | 20 |
Acting: Process and Performance | TP21220 | 20 |
Advertising | FM21920 | 20 |
Creative Documentary | FM26520 | 20 |
Creative Studio | FM25420 | 20 |
Devised Performance Project | TP21620 | 20 |
Digital Culture | FM25520 | 20 |
Directors' Theatre | TP21820 | 20 |
LGBT Screens | FM20120 | 20 |
Media, Politics and Power | FM22620 | 20 |
New Media Performance | TP23820 | 20 |
Shakespeare in Performance | TP23220 | 20 |
Stardom and Celebrity | FM21520 | 20 |
Television Genre | FM20620 | 20 |
Theatre Design Project | TP22620 | 20 |
Theatre Production Project | TP24940 | 40 |
Theatre and Contemporary Society | TP20820 | 20 |
Youth Cultures | FM22320 | 20 |
Art Cinema | FM24420 | 20 |
The Story of Television | FM20420 | 20 |
Work in the Media Industries | FM23820 | 20 |
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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Options
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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Advertising | FM31920 | 20 |
Contemporary Drama | TP30020 | 20 |
Gender and the Media | FM38320 | 20 |
Independent Research Project | FM36040 | 40 |
Media Law | FM36720 | 20 |
Media Semiotics | FM34120 | 20 |
Musical Theatre Dramaturgies | TP39020 | 20 |
Performance and Architecture | TP33420 | 20 |
Performance and Disability | TP30320 | 20 |
Place, Space and Landscape | TP32820 | 20 |
Videogame Theories | FM38420 | 20 |
Contemporary TV Drama | FM30320 | 20 |
Experimental Cinema | FM34520 | 20 |
Experimental Media Production | FM33540 | 40 |
Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain | FM30020 | 20 |
Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences | FM38220 | 20 |
Documentary Production | FM33740 | 40 |
Ensemble Performance Project | TP35520 | 20 |
Playwriting | TP33340 | 40 |
School Shakespeare Project | TP30140 | 40 |
Screening the Brave New World: television in 20th-century Britain | FM31020 | 20 |
* Also available partially or entirely through the medium of Welsh
Careers
Teaching & Learning
Typical Entry Requirements
UCAS Tariff 120 - 96
A Levels BBB-CCC
GCSE requirements (minimum grade C/4):
English or Welsh
BTEC National Diploma:
DDM-MMM
International Baccalaureate:
30-26
European Baccalaureate:
75%-65% overall
English Language Requirements:
See our Undergraduate English Language Requirements for this course. Pre-sessional English Programmes are also available for students who do not meet our English Language Requirements.
Country Specific Entry Requirements:
International students whose qualification is not listed on this page, can check our Country Specific Entry Requirements for further information.
The University welcomes undergraduate applications from students studying the Access to Higher Education Diploma or T-level qualifications, provided that relevant subject content and learning outcomes are met. We are not able to accept Access to Higher Education Diplomas or T-levels as a general qualification for every undergraduate degree course.
Our inclusive admissions policy values breadth as well as depth of study. Applicants are selected on their own individual merits and offers can vary. If you would like to check the eligibility of your qualifications before submitting an application, please contact the Undergraduate Admissions Office for advice and guidance.