Study Schemes

BA Media and English Literature [P3Q3]

Academic Year: 2023/2024Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Studying Media

Semester 2

Studying Communication

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Critical Practice

Semester 2

Ancestral Voices

Critical Practice

Year 1 Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 2

Studying Television

Making Short Films 1

Year 1 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1

American Literature 1819-1925

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2

Greek and Roman Epic and Drama

Contemporary Writing

Language Awareness for TESOL

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

Introduction to Poetry

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 40 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following FM modules in their second year.

Semester 1

Television Genre

Youth Cultures

Media, Politics and Power

Creative Documentary

Semester 2

LGBT Screens

Stardom and Celebrity

Advertising

Creative Studio

Digital Culture

Year 2 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1

Literary Modernisms

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

Contemporary Queer Fiction

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

Semester 2

Literary Geographies

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

Literature since the '60s

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

Year 2 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1

Classical Drama and Myth

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

Semester 2

Place and Self

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 40 credits and, subject to the deamds of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following FM modules in their third year.

Semester 1

Experimental Media Production

Experimental Cinema

Independent Research Project

Gender and the Media

Videogame Theories

Semester 2

Contemporary TV Drama

Experimental Media Production

Media Semiotics

Media Law

Final Year Options

Choose 60 credits

Semester 1

Undergraduate Dissertation

Reading Theory / Reading Text

Romantic Eroticism

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

Literatures of Surveillance

Semester 2

Undergraduate Dissertation

Victorian Childhoods

Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English

Haunting Texts

The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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