Study Schemes

BA Film and Television Studies / German [RW26]

Academic Year: 2013/2014Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001 (Last intake year is 2010/2011)

Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Bursary;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Options

GERMAN ADVANCED: you must take:

Semester 1

GE19900

German Language Advanced

Semester 2

GE19930

German Language Advanced

Year 1 Options

GERMAN BEGINNERS: you must take:

Semester 1

GE10700

German Language (beginners)

Semester 2

GE10740

German Language (beginners)

Year 1 Options

GERMAN ADVANCED: you must take either GE10910 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

GE10910

Ways Of Reading German Literature

Semester 2

EL10520

Introduction To European Film

EL10820

Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe

EL10920

Images Of Europe: The European Imagination

Year 1 Options

GERMAN 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

GE20100

German Language

Semester 2

GE20130

German Language

Year 2 Options

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

Semester 1

EL20500

Extended Essay Module

EL31900

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

GE20420

An Introduction To Variation In German

GE21010

The Language Of Economics

Semester 2

EL20510

Extended Essay Module

EL31920

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

GE27110

Short Prose In German

GE27220

German-speaking Refugees In Literature And Culture

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

GES0000

Year Abroad Assessment

Semester 2

GES0060

Year Abroad Assessment

Final Year Core (30 Credits)

You must take:

Semester 1

GE30100

German Language

Semester 2

GE30130

German Language

Final Year Options

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

Semester 1

EL30100

Dissertation

EL30500

Extended Essay Module

EL31900

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

GE30420

Language And Society In German-speaking Countries

GE31010

The Language Of German Politics

Semester 2

EL30120

Dissertation

EL30510

Extended Essay Module

EL31920

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

GE37020

Autobiography And Life Writing In German

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