Program Overview

Writing for Broadcasting, Media and Performance

Course Overview

The Writing for Broadcasting, Media and Performance degree at Aberystwyth University is designed to develop your practical writing skills in a vibrant and conducive environment. You will gain a firm grounding in how to write across platforms and for different audiences, developing your understanding of fundamental techniques and growing in confidence.

Key Facts

• UCAS Tariff: 120 - 96
• Course duration: 3 years
• Available for: September start 2025

Modules

Year 1

• Core:
  • Studying Film (FM10120, 20 credits)
  • Studying Television (FM10220, 20 credits)
  • Theatre in Context 1 (TP11020, 20 credits)
  • Theatre in Context 2 (TP11320, 20 credits)
  • Writing Continuing TV Drama (FM17320, 20 credits)
• Options:
  • Making Short Films 1 (FM11520, 20 credits)
  • Movements in Film History (FM11120, 20 credits)
  • Site-Specific Performance Project (TP11420, 20 credits)

Year 2

• Core:
  • Writing Audio Drama (FM27120, 20 credits)
  • Writing for Film and Television (FM21620, 20 credits)
• Options:
  • Art Cinema (FM24420, 20 credits)
  • Creative Documentary (FM26520, 20 credits)
  • Creative Fiction: Horror (FM20920, 20 credits)
  • Digital Culture (FM25520, 20 credits)
  • Directors' Theatre (TP21820, 20 credits)
  • Film Stardom and Celebrity (FM21520, 20 credits)
  • LGBT Film & Television (FM20120, 20 credits)
  • New Media Performance (TP23820, 20 credits)
  • Shakespeare in Performance (TP23220, 20 credits)
  • The Story of Television (FM20420, 20 credits)
  • Theatre and Contemporary Society (TP20820, 20 credits)

Year 3

• Core:
  • Playwriting (TP33340, 40 credits)
  • Scriptwriting 1 (FM37020, 20 credits)
  • Scriptwriting 2 (FM37120, 20 credits)
• Options:
  • Contemporary Drama (TP30020, 20 credits)
  • Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain (FM30020, 20 credits)
  • Contemporary TV (FM30320, 20 credits)
  • Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences (FM38220, 20 credits)
  • Experimental Cinema (FM34520, 20 credits)
  • Gender and the Media (FM38320, 20 credits)
  • Independent Research Project (FM36040, 40 credits)
  • Musical Theatre Dramaturgies (TP39020, 20 credits)
  • Performance and Architecture (TP33420, 20 credits)
  • Performance and Disability (TP30320, 20 credits)
  • Videogame Theories (FM38420, 20 credits)

Careers

Many of our graduates from the department have discovered career paths which include:

• Broadcast media
• Producing and directing
• Scriptwriting
• Marketing and public relations
• Media planning

Teaching & Learning

You will be taught through a range of lectures, seminars, workshops, and tutorials. You may also be required to undertake practicals.

Typical Entry Requirements

• UCAS Tariff: 120 - 96
• A Levels: BBB-CCC
• GCSE requirements: (minimum grade C/4): English or Welsh
• BTEC National Diploma: DDM-MMM
• International Baccalaureate: 30-26
• European Baccalaureate: 75%-65% overall
• English Language Requirements: See our Undergraduate English Language Requirements for this course. Pre-sessional English Programmes are also available for students who do not meet our English Language Requirements.

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82% of students were satisfied overall with their course.

Data for courses in Writing for Broadcasting, Media and Performance at Aberystwyth University

93% of students say teaching staff have supported their learning well.

Data for courses in Media studies at Aberystwyth University

85% in work or doing further study 15 months after the course.

Data for courses in Media studies over two years at Aberystwyth University

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