Modules for course 3HPQ | BA/MEN
BA Media Studies and English Literature
This is a provisional list of modules to be offered on this course in the 2022–23 academic year.
The list may not be complete, and the final course content may be different.
You can also view the modules offered in the year 2021–22.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- QXE-1013: Reading, Thinking, Writing (20)
- UXS-1021: Intro to Studying Mass Culture (20) or
UXB-1021: Cyflwyniad i Astudio Diwyllian (20)
Semester 2
Optional Modules
40 credits from:
- QXE-1003: Intro. to Medieval Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1004: The Literature of Laughter (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1014: The Gothic in Literature/Film (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1016: Children's Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-1600: Transnational Cultures (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-1700: Creating National Histories (20) (Semester 1)
20 credits from:
- UXS-1018: Creative Practice (20) (Semester 1) or
UXB-1018: Ymarfer Creadigol (20) (Semester 1) - UXS-1038: Intro' to Media Practice (20) (Semester 2) or
UXC-1038: Cyf. i Ymarfer y Cyfryngau (20) (Semester 2) - UXS-1062: Film Language (20) (Semester 1) or
UXC-1062: Iaith y Ffilm (20) (Semester 1) - UXS-1066: Visual Cultures (20) (Semester 2) or
UXB-1066: Diwylliant Gweledol (20) (Semester 2)
Year 2 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- UXS-2099: Research and Methods (20) or
UXC-2099: Dulliau Ymchwil (20)
60 credits from:
- QXE-2003: Jonson to Johnson (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2005: Victorian Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 2) or
QXP-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 2) - QXE-2020: The Romantic Period in Britain (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2024: Alfred Hitchcock (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2101: Beowulf to Malory (20) (Semester 1)
Optional Modules
40 credits from:
- UXS-2033: Practical Digital Journalism (20) (Semester 1) or
UXC-2033: Newyddiaduraeth Ddigidol Ymarf (20) (Semester 1) - UXS-2046: Media, Politics & Society (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2063: Digital Advertising 20 credits (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2068: Practical Film Criticism (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2075: Short Film Production (20) (Semester 2) or
UXC-2075: Cynhyrchu'r Ffilm Fer (20) (Semester 2) - UXS-2402: Media History (20) (Semester 2)
- Some modules may be subject to pre-requisites, please check the module page for further information.
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
60 credits from:
- QXE-3022: Shakespeare and Early Modern L (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3031: Welsh Writing in English (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3099: The English Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- QXE-3107: EM Lit: Sex, Sects and Scandal (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3109: Victorian Networks (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3110: Neo-Victorian Fiction (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3113: The Monstrous Middle Ages (20) (Semester 2)
- Students may not take a dissertation in both English Literature and the other discipline of the Joint Honours program
Optional Modules
20 to 60 credits from:
- UXS-3019: America on Film (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-3033: Practical Digital Journalism (20) (Semester 1) or
UXC-3033: Newyddiaduraeth Ddigidol Ymarf (20) (Semester 1) - UXS-3052: Advanced Radio Practice (20) (Semester 2) or
UXC-3052: Ymarfer Radio Pellach (20) (Semester 2) - UXS-3063: Digital Advertising 20 credits (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-3074: Short Film Production (20) (Semester 2) or
UXC-3074: Cynhyrchu'r ffilm fer (20) (Semester 2) - UXS-3402: Media History (20) (Semester 2)
- Some modules may be subject to pre-requisites, please check the module page for further information.
0 to 40 credits from:
- UXB-3900: Research Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- UXB-3901: Creative Practice Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- UXB-3902: Enterprise Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)