Study Schemes

BA Film and Television Studies / Mathematics [GW16]

Academic Year: 2013/2014Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Bursary; The Coleg Incentive Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Mathematics Joint Honours: Students must take a total of 60 credits of core and optional MA modules in year 1. The following modules are core:

Semester 1
MA10020

Algebra And Calculus

Semester 2
MA11010

Further Algebra And Calculus

MA11110

Mathematical Analysis

Year 1 Options

Mathematics Joint Honours: Students must take 20 credits of optional MA modules EITHER MA10110 and MA11210 OR MA10310 and MA11310.

Semester 1
MA10110

Coordinate And Vector Geometry

MA10310

Probability

Semester 2
MA11210

Differential Equations

MA11310

Statistics

Year 1 Core (60 Credits)

Students must take and must pass the following three core modules:

Semester 1
FM10120

Studying Film

Semester 2
FM10220

Studying Television

FM10520

Media Production Workshop (semester 2)

Year 1 Options

Students may take the following modules to complete their studies in Year 1:

Semester 1
FM10620

Studying Media

Semester 2
FM10720

Studying Communication

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (10 Credits)

Mathematics Joint Honours. The following module is core in year 2.

Semester 2
MA21410

Linear Algebra

Year 2 Options

Mathematics Joint Honours. Students must take 50 credits of optional MA modules EITHER from Block A OR Block B AND Block C.

Year 2 Options

BLOCK A: Students must take 50 credits from the following.

Semester 1
MA20110

Real Analysis

MA20310

Introduction To Abstract Algebra

MP26020

Mathematical Physics

Semester 2
MA21510

Complex Analysis

MA25110

Introduction To Numerical Analysis

MA25610

Hydrodynamics 1

Year 2 Options

BLOCK B: Students must take 40 credits.

Semester 1
MA26010

Distributions And Estimation

MA26510

Statistical Methods

Semester 2
MA27210

Regression And Anova

MA27510

Theory And Practice Of Sampling

Year 2 Options

BLOCK C: Students must choose one of the following modules:

Semester 1
MA20110

Real Analysis

Semester 2
MA21510

Complex Analysis

Year 2 Core (40 Credits)

Joint Honours Film and TV Studies Students must take the following 2 core modules and must pass at least one of them:

Semester 1
FM30120

Analysing Film, Television And Media

Semester 2
FM30220

Key Film And Media Practices

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Film and TV Studies Students may take 1 critical practice module from the following list:

Semester 1
FM20420

Classical Hollywood Cinema

FM20620

Television Genre

FM20720

The Documentary Tradition

FM20920

Film Genre

FM21720

Media History

Semester 2
FM20820

British Cinema

FM21020

Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

FM21220

Contemporary Television Drama

FM22120

Digital Journalism

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Film and TV Studies students may take 1 creative practice module from the following list:

Semester 1
FM21400

Television Production

FM21520

Imagining The Short

Semester 2
FM21420

Television Production

FM21620

Writing For Film And Television

Final Year Options

Mathematics Joint Honours. Students must take 60 credits from Maths level 3 modules.

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Film and TV Studies students may take up to 3 critical practice modules from the following list:

Semester 1
FM31320

Cinema And Stardom

FM32320

Bent Screens

FM32520

Children And The Media

FM33220

Media In Wales

FM34520

Experimental Cinema

Semester 2
FM32420

The Surveillance Society

FM32720

Soundscapes

FM32820

Factual Television

FM32920

Film Authorship

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Film and TV Studies students may take 1 of the following creative practice modules from the following list (A Fiction Production module will also be available, code to follow):

Semester 1
FM33500

Advanced Experimental Media Production

FM33600

Advanced Television Production

FM33700

Advanced Documentary Film And Television Production

FM33800

Advanced Scriptwriting

FM34200

Advanced Fiction Film Production

Semester 2
FM33540

Advanced Experimental Media Production

FM33640

Advanced Television Production

FM33740

Advanced Documentary Film And Television Production

FM33840

Advanced Scriptwriting

FM34240

Advanced Fiction Film Production

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Film and TV Studies students Students may take the following research practice module:

Semester 1
FM36000

Dissertation (film And Media)

Semester 2
FM36040

Dissertation (film And Media)

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary