Journalism, Media and English Literature (BA)

Students studying a Joint Honours degree divide their time equally between the Cardiff School of Journalism and Cultural Studies and the School of English, Communication and Philosophy. The modules followed by joint degree students vary according to the particular degree scheme and student choice of options.

Year one

You will take 60 credits in English Literature and 60 credits in Journalism.

Core modulesModule titleModule codeCreditsHistory of Mass Communication & CultureMC111020 creditsIntroduction to Poetry and the NovelSE213620 creditsUnderstanding Journalism StudiesMC157820 creditsReading and IdentitySE213120 creditsYear two

Students in Year 2 can select up to 120 credits from the modules offered below by the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies and the School of English, Communication and Philosophy

Optional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsWar, Politics and Propaganda IIMC354920 creditsMedia and GenderMC210720 creditsTele-FictionsMC351720 creditsDoing Media Research: Approaches and MethodsMC355120 creditsPopular CultureMC357720 creditsReporting Science, The Environment and HealthMC359520 creditsMedia Law Year 2MC360020 creditsCreative Writing ISE241720 creditsFiction of The Indian SubcontinentSE228320 creditsMedia, Power & SocietyMC211620 creditsMedia and DemocracyMC360320 creditsReading Old EnglishSE244120 creditsShakespeare and Renaissance DramaSE244220 creditsElizabethan ShakespeareSE244320 creditsModernist FictionsSE244520 creditsModern Welsh Writing in EnglishSE244820 creditsTwentieth-Century Crime FictionSE245520 creditsIntroduction to Romantic PoetrySE245020 creditsSocial Media TrendsMC360220 creditsModernism and the CitySE246320 creditsThe Post-1945 American NovelSE256620 creditsImaginary Journeys: More to HuxleySE245720 creditsIntroduction to Visual CultureSE246120 creditsAdvertising and the Consumer SocietyMC345720 creditsAfrican-American LiteratureSE245120 creditsContemporary Women's WritingSE244620 creditsHistory of EnglishSE139820 creditsChildren's Literature: Form & FunctionSE244720 creditsRepresenting the VictoriansSE246620 creditsFictive Histories/Historical FictionsSE246720 creditsGothic Fiction: The Romantic AgeSE246820 creditsRomanticism, Politics, AestheticsSE246920 creditsSocial Politics and National Style: American Fiction and Form 1920-1940SE247020 creditsWays of ReadingSE244920 creditsYr Ystafell Newyddion 1MC261720 creditsDigital CultureMC360420 creditsSocial Media, Politics, and SocietyMC261620 creditsYr Ystafell Newyddion 2MC261820 creditsWorld Cinema, History and CultureMC261920 creditsCultural Politics of ComedyMC262020 creditsBirth and Death and Marriage in the Media: Researching the "Personal" in Cultural Context"MC262120 creditsThe Robin Hood TraditionSE236720 creditsLiterature and ScienceSE247120 creditsDickens in Many MediaSE247220 creditsYear three

Students in Year 2 can select up to 120 credits from the modules offered below by the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies and the School of English, Communication and Philosophy

Optional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsDissertationMC310340 creditsMediating ChildhoodMC358520 creditsMedia LawMC321320 creditsSpin Unspun: Public Relations and The News MediaMC359620 creditsMedia, Racism, ConflictMC359320 creditsWriting With Light: Histories of Visual MediaMC356620 creditsJournalism, New Media and The PublicMC359920 creditsThe Making and Shaping of NewsMC358920 creditsHitchcockSE254420 creditsCreative Writing III: Special TopicsSE237320 creditsNineteenth-Century Crime FictionSE239020 creditsCreative Writing II: Special TopicsSE237020 creditsDissertationSE252420 creditsWriting Caribbean SlaverySE256820 creditsThe Mediation of Political ViolenceMC360720 creditsThe Creative and Cultural IndustriesMC360820 creditsLove, Death and Marriage in Renaissance LiteratureSE258320 creditsR. S. Thomas: No Truce with the FuriesSE257820 creditsFrench TheorySE257020 creditsSecond-generation Romantic PoetsSE258220 creditsDesire, the Body and the Text: Psychoanalysis & LiteratureSE258020 creditsUtopia: Suffrage to CyberpunkSE258120 creditsCitizen MediaMC361120 creditsSport and the MediaMC361220 creditsDebating Quality TVMC361320 credits21st Century British Television: Industry, Form & AudiencesMC361020 creditsGender & Monstrosity: Late/Neo VictorianSE256420 creditsInterwar Experiments: Sex, Gender, StyleSE258420 creditsMiddle English Romance: Monsters and MagicSE258620 creditsInternational Study Abroad (60 credits) SpringSE625260 creditsInternational Study Abroad (60 credits) AutumnSE625160 creditsCommunicating CausesMC361620 creditsManaging Media CommunicationsMC361420 creditsBluestockings, Britannia, Unsex'd Females: Women in public life, 1770 - 1800SE258820 creditsGothic Fiction: The VictoriansSE258920 creditsModern British Political DramaSE259020 creditsNorse Myth and SagaSE256020 creditsCanterbury Tales: Genre, History, InterpretationSE257920 creditsFour English Poets of the Twentieth CenturySE259120 creditsPoetry in the Making: Modern Literary ManuscriptsSE259220 creditsPostcolonial TheorySE259320 creditsShakespeare's Late PlaysSE259420 creditsThe Graphic MemoirSE140920 creditsVideo Games Culture, Media and SocietyMC361820 creditsVisions of Past and Future in Children's LiteratureSE259520 creditsMedical FictionsSE259620 creditsMilitary Masculinities in the Long Nineteenth CenturySE259720 creditsUnderstanding Media BusinessMC361920 credits The University is committed to providing a wide range of module options where possible, but please be aware that whilst every effort is made to offer choice this may be limited in certain circumstances. This is due to the fact that some modules have limited numbers of places available, which are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, while others have minimum student numbers required before they will run, to ensure that an appropriate quality of education can be delivered; some modules require students to have already taken particular subjects, and others are core or required on the programme you are taking. Modules may also be limited due to timetable clashes, and although the University works to minimise disruption to choice, we advise you to seek advice from the relevant School on the module choices available.