Modules for course 3HPQ | BA/MEN
BA Media Studies and English Literature
These were the modules for this course in the 2019–20 academic year.
You can also view the modules offered in the years: 2020–21.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- QXE-1013: Reading, Thinking, Writing (20)
- UXS-1055: Digital Communication (20) or
UXB-1055: Cyfathrebu Digidol (20)
Semester 2
- UXS-1000: Issues in Media and Journalism (20)
- UXS-1062: Film Language (20) or
UXC-1062: Iaith y Ffilm (20)
Optional Modules
40 credits from:
- QXE-1003: Intro. to Medieval Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1004: The Literature of Laughter (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1014: The Gothic in Literature/Film (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1015: Landmarks in Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1016: Children's Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
Year 2 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 2
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- QXE-2003: Jonson to Johnson (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2005: Victorian Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2013: Renaissance and Reformation (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-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-2027: Literature and Modernity (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2101: Beowulf to Malory (20) (Semester 1)
- Students must take (at least) 1 module dealing with Literature before 1800, and 1 from post-1800 modules.
40 credits from:
- UXS-2038: Journalism and Risk (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2052: Radio: Theory and Practice (20) (Semester 1) or
UXC-2052: Radio Theori ac Ymarfer (20) (Semester 1) - UXS-2055: Privacy and the Media (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2057: Documentary Filmmaking (20) (Semester 2) or
UXC-2057: Cynhyrchu'r Ffilm Ddogfen (20) (Semester 2) - UXS-2058: Writing for Film & Television (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2059: Understanding Documentary (20) (Semester 1) or
UXC-2046: Y Ffilm ddogfen:Theori (20) (Semester 1) - UXS-2076: Global News Agenda (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2126: Animation & motion graphics (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2400: Contemporary Theatre Practice (20) (Semester 2) or
UXB-2400: Ymarfer Theatr Cyfoes (20) (Semester 2) - UXS-2401: Practical Journalism: ELD (20) (Semester 1) or
UXC-2401: Newyddiaduraeth Ymarferol: MCD (20) (Semester 1) - UXS-2408: Site Specific Performance (20) (Semester 1) or
UXB-2408: Perfformio Safle Benodol (20) (Semester 1) - UXS-2800: Game Design Level & Mechanics (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2801: Game Development (20) (Semester 2)
- Some modules may be subject to pre-requisites, please check the module page for further information.
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
0 to 40 credits from:
- UXB-3900: Research Dissertation (40) (Semester 2)
- UXB-3901: Creative Practice Dissertation (40) (Semester 2)
- UXB-3902: Enterprise Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- QXE-3012: Detective Fiction (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3022: Shakespeare and EM Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3028: Literature in the Community (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3031: Welsh Writing in English (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3034: Arthur: legend and super hero (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3086: Shakespeare's Afterlives (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3088: Bob Dylan (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3094: Realms of Magic (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3096: Medieval Women's Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3099: The English Dissertation (40) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3102: The 1820s: Print Explosion (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-3103: Wales: A European Contact Zone (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3105: Reading Myth (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3107: EM Lit: Sex, Sects and Scandal (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3110: Neo-Victorian Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- 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 programme.
20 to 60 credits from:
- UXS-3016: The Politics of Media (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3038: Journalism & Risk Society (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3049: Advanced Screenwriting (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3052: Advanced Radio Practice (20) (Semester 2) or
UXC-3052: Ymarfer Radio Pellach (20) (Semester 2) - UXS-3055: Privacy and the Media (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3074: Short film production (20) (Semester 2) or
UXC-3074: Cynhyrchu'r ffilm fer (20) (Semester 2) - UXS-3076: Global News Agenda (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-3400: Contemporary Theatre Practice (20) (Semester 2) or
UXB-3400: Ymarfer Theatr Cyfoes (20) (Semester 2) - UXS-3408: Site-Specific Performance (20) (Semester 1) or
UXB-3408: Perfformio Safle Benodol (20) (Semester 1) - UXS-3800: Game Design 3 (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3801: Game Production (20) (Semester 2)
- Some modules may be subject to pre-requisites, please check the module page for further information.