BA Media and English Literature
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and Film Studies, combining literary study with film and media analysis. Core topics include research methods. The programme is taught jointly by the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies and the Department of English and Creative Writing. In the final year, students attend a writing retreat at a country house in Mid-Wales to develop projects and dissertations.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB-BCC IB: 30-28
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What students say
Based on about 45 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 88%
- Learning opportunities: 86%
- Assessment and feedback: 89%
- Academic support: 93%
- Organisation and management: 89%
- Learning resources: 92%
- Student voice: 85%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 45 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 90%
- Left higher education: 10%
What graduates do next
Based on about 10 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 70%
- Working and studying: 5%
- Further study: 5%
- Unemployed: 15%
Most common jobs
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 20%
- Administrative occupations: 15%
- Teaching Professionals: 15%
- Sales occupations: 15%
- Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 75%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 50%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 35%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 50 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 5%
- West Midlands: 20%
- East of England: 5%
- London: 10%
- South East: 5%
- Wales: 55%
Who gets in
Based on about 40 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 95%
- Other HE qualification: 5%
Modules
- Ancestral Voices
- Critical Practice
- Studying Communication
- Studying Media
- American Literature 1800-2000
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- Introduction to Poetry
- Language Awareness for TESOL
- Literature And The Sea
- Making Short Films 1
- Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
- Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Studying Television
- We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
- Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- 'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
- A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- Digital Culture
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
- Literary Geographies
- Literary Modernisms
- Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- Literature since the '60s
- Media, Politics and Power
- Place and Self
- TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
- The Story of Television
- Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- Youth Cultures
- Art Cinema
- Creative Documentary
- Creative Television Studio
- Film Stardom and Celebrity
- LGBT Film & Television
- Work in the Film & Television Industries
- Gender and the Media
- Independent Research Project
- Media Law and Regulation
- Media and Society in Wales
- Videogame Theories
- Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
- Haunting Texts
- Independent Research Project
- Literatures of Surveillance
- Post-Colonial African Literature in English
- Reading Theory / Reading Text
- Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
- The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
- Victorian Childhoods
- Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
- Contemporary TV
- Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences
- Documentary Production
- Experimental Cinema
- Experimental Media Production
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Media and English Literature at Aberystwyth University earn?
The median salary is £23,000 after 15 months, £18,500 after 3 years, £24,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £19,000 and £29,500. The £24,000 median after five years is £4,000 less than the UK median for Literature in English.
What do graduates of BA Media and English Literature at Aberystwyth University do next?
80% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Media and English Literature at Aberystwyth University?
88% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Media and English Literature at Aberystwyth University?
The typical offer is BBB at A level. The average entrant had 106 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA Media and English Literature at Aberystwyth University?
90% of students continued into their second year, and 10% left higher education.