Study Schemes

BA Film and Television Studies / French [RW16]

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

Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Bursary;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Options

FRENCH ADVANCED: you must take:

Semester 1

FR19900

French Language Advanced

Semester 2

FR19930

French Language Advanced

Year 1 Options

FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must take:

Semester 1

FR10700

French Language (beginners)

Semester 2

FR10740

French Language (beginners)

Year 1 Options

FRENCH ADVANCED: you must take either FR12910 or EL10610 and must also choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1

EL10500

Introduction To European Film

EL10610

Language In Society: An Introduction To Sociolinguistics

EL10800

Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe

EL10900

Images Of Europe: The European Imagination

Semester 2

EL10520

Introduction To European Film

EL10820

Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe

EL10920

Images Of Europe: The European Imagination

FR12910

Images Of France Through Childhood Memory

Year 1 Options

FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must choose 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1

EL10500

Introduction To European Film

EL10610

Language In Society: An Introduction To Sociolinguistics

EL10800

Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe

EL10900

Images Of Europe: The European Imagination

Semester 2

EL10520

Introduction To European Film

EL10820

Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe

EL10920

Images Of Europe: The European Imagination

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 (30 Credits)

You must take:

Semester 1

FR20100

French Language

Semester 2

FR20130

French Language

Year 2 Options

You must choose 30 credits of the following Level 2 FR or EL modules but note that you cannot take both EL31900/20 and EL20500/10 in combination:

Semester 1

EL20220

Romance Linguistics

EL20500

Extended Essay Module

EL31900

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

FR20310

Language Of Business 1

FR23120

Langues Regionales Et Dialectes De France

FR29020

The Myth Of Paris

Semester 2

EL20510

Extended Essay Module

EL31920

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

FR25020

Semantics And Lexicography

FR26020

Humour In French Literature

FR29920

La France De Toujours

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

Year 3 Core (60 Credits)

Your compulsory year Abroad modules for Theatre Film and TV

Semester 1

TFS0000

Abroad Year Dummy

Semester 2

TFS0060

Abroad Year Dummy

Year 3 Core (60 Credits)

On your compulsory year abroad your registration will be:

Semester 1

FRS0000

Year Abroad Assessment

Semester 2

FRS0060

Year Abroad Assessment

Final Year Core (30 Credits)

You must take:

Semester 1

FR30100

French Language

Semester 2

FR30130

French Language

Final Year Options

You must choose 30 credits of the following Level 3 FR or EL modules but note that you cannot take both EL31900/20 and EL30500/10 in combination:

Semester 1

EL30100

Dissertation

EL30320

Romance Linguistics

EL30500

Extended Essay Module

EL31900

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

FR30310

The Language Of Business And Current Affairs

FR33120

Langues Regionales Et Dialectes De France

FR39020

The Nature Of The Beast: Animal, Human, Monster

Semester 2

EL30120

Dissertation

EL30510

Extended Essay Module

EL31920

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

FR33320

L'art Du RÉcit (19e - 20e SiÈcles)

FR35020

Semantics And Lexicography

FR36020

Decrasser Le Sacre: Religion And 20thc Literature

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