Program Overview

If you are interested in who controls and owns our media, how media content is produced, and what impact the media has on us as audiences, then the Media and Communications Studies degree at Aberystwyth University is for you. Join us in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies in Aberystwyth on this exciting course, and we will introduce you to some of the key media and communication theorists and ask you to consider how you can apply their thinking to your own study of media and communications.

Through our interdisciplinary approach to the subject, you will

develop dynamic insights into the nature of interactions between media texts,

media audiences and media producers. The course is designed to allow you to

develop your creative, critical and technical skills through innovative

practical work and challenging scholarly enquiry in areas such as media policy

and history, advertising, youth cultures, media law, gender and media, video

games, and digital culture. Your three years of study will be dynamic,

Why study Media and Communication Studies at Aberystwyth?

• You will be taught and mentored by staff who are experts in the field of Media and Communication, have excellent connections to the industry, contribute to national debates on the media, and are at the forefront of research in the field.
• Students on this course will have a deeper understanding of sociology, psychology, cultural studies, history, philosophy, linguistics and marketing.
• Students will be taught in vibrant, modern and dynamic teaching facilities including a brand new PC lab designed to assimilate the digital media industry, digital production and editing suites.
• Our industry links are embedded at the heart of the department with the BBC Wales, regional office and broadcast situated by the entrance.
• Students can exploit full access to the National Sound and Screen Archive of Wales which is a stone’s through away from the Penglais campus.