BA Film and Television / Fine Art [WW16]

Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards

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 (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
FM10120

Studying Film

or
TC10020

Astudio Ffilm

Semester 2
FM10220

Studying Television

or
TC12020

Astudio Teledu

FM11520

Making Short Films 1

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Year 1 Options

Students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, take one of the following:

Semester 1
FM10620

Studying Media

Semester 2
FM10720

Studying Communication

FM11120

Movements in Film History

Year 1 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
AH11320

Pleasure, Power, and Profit: Art in the Long Eighteenth Century

AH11520

Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding

AH11820

Photography Begins

Semester 2
AH11220

Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums

AH11420

Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century

AH11720

Representing the Body

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Film and TV Studies students must take a minimum of 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following critical theory modules:

Semester 1
FM20120

LGBT Film & Television

FM20420

The Story of Television

FM22320

Youth Cultures

TC20520

Hanes Teledu

Semester 2
FM21520

Film Stardom and Celebrity

FM22620

Media, Politics and Power

FM24420

Art Cinema

FM25520

Digital Culture

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Film and TV Studies students must take a minimum of 20 credits and a maximum 40 credits (20 in each semester) from the following modules:

Semester 1
FM21620

Writing for Film and Television

FM23820

Work in the Film & Television Industries

FM26520

Creative Documentary

TC25620

Dogfen Greadigol

Semester 2
FM20920

Creative Fiction: Horror

FM25420

Creative Television Studio

TC25420

Stiwdio Deledu Greadigol

Year 2 Options

Joint honours Fine Art students should select a minimum of 40 credits of art practice from the following:

Semester 1
AR20720

Photography 1

AR22320

Printmaking: Etching and Relief Printing (A)

AR25320

Site Specific Practice

Semester 2
AR21820

Book Illustration 1

AR21930

Book Illustration 2

AR22520

Printmaking: Screenprinting and Lithography (A)

AR23210

Professional Practice for Students of Art

AR25420

Site Specific Exhibition

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Film and TV Studies students must take at least 20 credits from the following modules (please note that the Independent Research Project is worth 40 credits: 20 per semester):

Semester 1
FM32320

Media and Society in Wales

FM36000

Independent Research Project

FM38220

Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences

FM38420

Videogame Theories

TC30020

Y Cyfryngau a Chymdeithas yng Nghymru

Semester 2
FM30020

Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain

FM30320

Contemporary TV

FM34520

Experimental Cinema

FM36040

Independent Research Project

FM36720

Media Law and Regulation

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Fine Art students must take AR30130 in Semester 2 of the final year

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Fine Art students should select from the following modules for their remaining final year credits:

Semester 1
AR35320

Interdisciplinary Practice 5

Semester 2
AR35420

Interdisciplinary Practice 6

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Film and TV Studies students may take up to 40 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
FM33500

Experimental Media Production

FM33700

Documentary Production

FM34200

Fiction Film Production

FM37020

Scriptwriting 1

TC33700

Cynhyrchu Ffilm Ddogfen

Semester 2
FM33540

Experimental Media Production

FM33740

Documentary Production

FM34240

Fiction Film Production

FM37120

Scriptwriting 2

TC33740

Cynhyrchu Ffilm Ddogfen