BA Media and Theatre Studies [P3W4]

Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020

Last intake year is 2023/2024

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence Scholarship;

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).

Semester 1
TP11020

Theatre in Context 1

or
TC11020

Theatr a Chyd-Destun 1

Semester 2
TP11320

Theatre in Context 2

or
TC11420

Theatr a Chyd-Destun 2

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
FM10620

Studying Media

Semester 2
FM10720

Studying Communication

Year 1 Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must choose one of the following modules

Semester 1
TP11120

Studio Theatre Project

Semester 2
TP11420

Site-Specific Performance Project

Year 1 Options

Students may choose an option from the following Film and Television modules, or from another scheme or department

Semester 2
FM10220

Studying Television

FM11520

Making Short Films 1

TC12020

Astudio Teledu

Year 1 Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, choose one of the following modules:

Semester 1
TP10120

Body, Voice, Perception

Semester 2
TC11620

Actio: Proses a Pherfformiad

TP11220

Acting: Process and Performance

Part 2 Rules

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

Semester 1
FM20420

The Story of Television

FM22320

Youth Cultures

TC20520

Hanes Teledu

Semester 2
FM22620

Media, Politics and Power

FM25520

Digital Culture

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 40 credits and, subject to the demands of their other scheme, may take up to 80 credits from the following:

Semester 1
TP20820

Theatre and Contemporary Society

TP21220

Acting: Process and Performance

TP21620

Devised Performance Project

TP21820

Directors' Theatre

TP22620

Design Project

TP25920

Acting for Camera

Semester 2
TP23220

Shakespeare in Performance

TP24940

Theatre Production Project

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits from the following creative practice modules:

Semester 1
FM26520

Creative Documentary

TC25620

Dogfen Greadigol

Semester 2
FM25420

Creative Studio

TC25420

Stiwdio Greadigol

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may choose from these Film and Television Studies modules:

Semester 1
FM20120

LGBT Film & Television

FM23820

Work in the Film & Television Industries

Semester 2
FM21520

Film Stardom and Celebrity

FM24420

Art Cinema

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 20 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP30020

Contemporary Drama

TP30320

Performance and Disability

TP32820

Place, Space and Landscape

Semester 2
TP33420

Performance and Architecture

TP39020

Music Theatre Dramaturgies

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students may take up to 40 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP33300

Playwriting

TP35520

Ensemble Performance Project

TP36000

Independent Research Project

Semester 2
TP33340

Playwriting

TP36040

Independent 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
FM36000

Independent Research Project

FM38320

Gender and the Media

FM38420

Videogame Theories

Semester 2
FM36040

Independent Research Project

FM36720

Media Law and Regulation

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of the following Creative Practice modules:

Semester 1
FM33500

Experimental Media Production

FM33700

Documentary Production

Semester 2
FM33540

Experimental Media Production

FM33740

Documentary 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
FM31020

Screening the Brave New World: film and television in post-war Britain

FM34520

Experimental Cinema

FM38220

Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences

Semester 2
FM30020

Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain

FM30320

Contemporary TV