Study Schemes

BA History / Film and Television Studies [VW16]

Academic Year: 2013/2014Joint Honours scheme - available from 2002/2003

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; The Coleg Lead Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Options

You must take one of these modules

Semester 1
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

HY12120

Introduction To History

Semester 2

Year 1 Options

Students must take a minimum of two options

Semester 1
HA10820

Argyfwng, Gwrthryfel A Ffydd Yn Ewrop C.1000-1540

HC11220

Grym, Protest A Chymdeithas Yng Nghymru Fodern 1850 -1997

HY12720

Three Queens And Their Subjects

HY14020

The Making Of The American Nation 1783-2000

WH11420

Wales In An Age Of Revolution, 1770-1850

Semester 2
HA10620

Y Dirwasgiad Mawr: Hanes Cymharol America A Phrydain

HA13820

Oes Y Fictoriaid

HC11120

Concwest, Uno A Hunaniaeth Yng Nghymru 1250-1800

HY11920

Stuart England: War, Political Crisis And Social Change 1629-1714

HY13220

Britain And The First World War

WH11120

Conquest, Union And Identity In Wales 1250-1800

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 Options

Path A. 60 credits of the History Options List

Year 2 Options

Path B. You must take HA or HY30510 OR HA or HY 30610, one 20 credit History Survey Module and one 30 credit History Option module

Semester 1
HA30510

Haneswyr Ac Ysgrifennu Hanes Ia

HY30510

Historians And The Writing Of History 1

Semester 2
HA30610

Haneswyr Ac Ysgrifennu Hanes Ib

HY30610

Historians & The Writing Of History 1b

Year 2 Options

Path C. You must take HY30020 or HA30020, one 20 credit History Survey Module and one 20 credit History Skills Module.

Semester 1
HA30000

Haneswyr Ac Ysgrifennu Hanes

HY30000

Historians And The Writing Of History 2

Semester 2
HA30020

Haneswyr Ac Ysgrifennu Hanes

HY30020

Historians And The Writing Of History 2

Year 2 Options

SURVEY MODULES

Semester 1
HA31820

Concro’r Byd: TŴf A Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain A Ffrainc

HY31620

War & Society In History

HY32020

The British Isles In The Long Eighteenth Century

Semester 2

Year 2 Options

SKILLS MODULES

Semester 2
HA33320

Hanes Ar Y Teledu

HY32220

The Ottoman Empire And Early Modern Travel Writing

HY32320

Studying Cuban History Through Film

HY32520

Oral History: The Past In The Present

HY32720

Investigating Georgian And Victorian Landscapes

HY32820

Myth & History In The Viking Age: Saga & Society In Medieval Iceland

HY33320

History On Television

HY33420

History As Myth-making: The 'myth Of The Blitz'

HY33520

Germans And Nazism Since 1933: Reading Public Opinion Surveys, Diaries And Memoirs

HY34020

Medieval Chronicles: Historical Writing In The British Isles 540-1300

HY34620

Exploring Nineteenth-century Exhibitions

HY34820

Early Modernity In Film

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

Final year students must take two History Option 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)

Available both years Options

OPTIONS LIST

Semester 1
HA37430

Diwylliant, Cymdeithas A'r Fictoriaid: Bywydau Cyhoeddus A Phreifat

HC34230

Hunaniaethau Cenedlaethol Yn Ynysoedd Prydain 1801-1914

HC35230

Twf Cymdeithas Drefol: Cymru 1750 - 2000

HY35430

Community And Identity In Late Medieval England, 1200-1500

HY35930

The Atlantic World, 1500 -1800

HY36430

From Black Death To The Great Fire: The British Town 1349-1700

HY37430

Culture, Society And The Victorians: Public And Private Lives

HY38230

Weimar Germany:making+breaking Of German Democracy,1914-1933

WH33330

Crime, Riot And Morality In Wales, 1750-1850

Semester 2
HA35130

Cymdeithas Ewrop A'r Meddwl Canoloesol 1200-1500

HC33330

Trosedd, Terfysg A Moesoldeb 1750-1850

HY35230

Age Of The Crusades:west & East 1070-1291

HY36230

The British Isles And The 'english' Revolution

HY38630

European Society In The Cold War Era, 1945-1989

WH32130

Conflict & Coexistence: From The Normans To Owain Glyn Dwr

WH35230

The Growth Of An Urban Society: Wales 1750-2000

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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