Study Schemes

BA  English Studies and Climate Change [FQ73]

Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
BR16620

Climate and Climate Change

Semester 2
EN19920

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN11300

Critical Practice

WR11020

Beginning Creative Writing Part 1

Semester 2
EN11320

Critical Practice

Year 1  Options

Choose 40 credits

Semester 1
EN11220

American Literature 1819-1925

IC17700

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL10820

We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN19920

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

IC17720

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

WR11120

Beginning Creative Writing Part 2

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (80 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Semester 2
EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

IP22320

The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module

Year 2  Options

Choose 40 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

WL23120

'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production

WR21120

Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction

WR22120

Adventures with Poetry

Semester 2
EN22120

Place and Self

GS28910

Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

IP20120

International Relations: Perspectives and Debates

IP29620

Women and Global Development

WL20320

Short stories: Grit and Candour

WR20620

Writing Selves

WR21720

Shaping Plots

Final Year  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
WL30100

Independent Research Project

WR31820

Crisis Writing

Semester 2
WL30140

Independent Research Project

Final Year  Options

Choose 60 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
AB33220

Environmental Economics

BR33420

Global Biodiversity Conservation

EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WR31820

Crisis Writing

WR32120

Writing and Place

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

Semester 2
EN30420

Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English

EN31320

The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s

IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

IP39620

Women and Global Development

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

WR31920

Writing Horror

WR32620

Writing Music

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary