BA
Media and English Literature
[P3Q3]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1
Options
Students may choose an option from the following Film and Television modules, or from another scheme or department
Year 1
Options
Choose 20 credits
Semester 1
EN11220American Literature 1819-1925
IC17700Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
WL10120Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
Semester 2
EN19920Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
IC13420Language Awareness for TESOL
IC17720Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
WL10820We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
WL11920Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
EN20120Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2
Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 20 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following Critical Theory modules
Year 2
Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits from the following creative practice modules:
Year 2
Options
Choose 20 credits
Semester 1
IC23420TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
WL20720A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
Semester 2
EN21120Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
EN21220Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
Year 2
Options
Choose 20 credits
Semester 1
EN28720Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
Semester 2
WL23120'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
Year 2
Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may choose from these Film and Television Studies modules:
Semester 1
FM23820Work in the Film & Television Industries
Final Year
Options
Choose 60 credits
Semester 1
EN30120Reading Theory / Reading Text
EN33620Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
IC37820Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
WL30100Independent Research Project
WL30620Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Semester 2
EN30420Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
EN31320The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
EN38120Post-Colonial African Literature in English
IC33420TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
IC37820Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
WL30140Independent Research Project
Final Year
Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 20 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following Critical Theory modules (NB: the Independent Research Project is worth 40 credits, 20 in each semester):
Semester 1
FM36000Independent Research Project
Semester 2
FM36040Independent Research Project
Final Year
Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of the following Creative Practice modules:
Semester 1
FM33500Experimental Media Production
Semester 2
FM33540Experimental Media Production
Final Year
Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of these Film and Television options:
Semester 1
FM31020Screening the Brave New World: film and television in post-war Britain
FM38220Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences
Semester 2
FM30020Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
