Study Schemes
BA French / English Literature [QR31]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years
Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
FRENCH ADVANCED: you must take:
French Language Advanced
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must take:
Year 1 Options
Choose 20 credits
Year 1 Options
FRENCH ADVANCED: you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:
Year 1 Options
FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must choose 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (30 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2 Options
Choose 30 credits of the following FR or EL modules:
Year 2 Options
You must choose at least 20 credits from the following modules:
Literary Geographies
Literature since the '60s
TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
Year 2 Options
You must choose at least 20 credits from the following modules:
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
Place and Self
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year Core (30 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year Options
Choose 60 credits
Reading Theory / Reading Text
Victorian Childhoods
Haunting Texts
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Independent Research Project
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Literatures of Surveillance
Final Year Options
Choose 30 credits of the following FR or EL modules:
Dissertation
Extended Essay Module
Brazilian / Portuguese Language III
The Language of Business and Current Affairs
Self-writing, 18th-21st Centuries
History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
"...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France
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- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary