BA
French / English Literature
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Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001 (Last intake year is 2024/2025)
Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1
Timetable Core/Student Option
FRENCH ADVANCED: you must take:
Semester 1
FR11900French Language (Non-Beginners)
Semester 2
FR11940French Language (Non-Beginners)
Year 1
Timetable Core/Student Option
FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must take:
Year 1
Options
Choose 20 credits
Semester 1
EN11220American Literature 1819-1925
IC17700Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
WL10120Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
Semester 2
EN19920Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
IC13420Language Awareness for TESOL
IC17720Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
WL10820We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
WL11920Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Year 1
Options
Choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:
Semester 1
EL10000Study and Research Skills in Modern Languages
EL10500Introduction to European Film
EL10800Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe
FR11100Introduction to French Studies
Semester 2
EL10020Study and Research Skills in Modern Languages
EL10520Introduction to European Film
EL10820Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe
FR11120Introduction to French Studies
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
FR22100French Language (Intermediate)
Semester 2
FR22140French Language (Intermediate)
Year 2
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
EN20120Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2
Options
Choose 20 credits of the following FR or EL modules:
Semester 1
FR21020Gender in Modern and Contemporary French Culture
FR27020Self-Writing, 18th-21st Centuries
Semester 2
FR27820History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
Year 2
Options
You must choose at least 20 credits from the following modules:
Semester 1
IC23420TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
WL20720A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
Semester 2
EN21120Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
Year 2
Options
You must choose at least 20 credits from the following modules:
Semester 1
EN28720Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
Semester 2
WL23120'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
Year 3
Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 3
Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year
Options
Choose 60 credits
Semester 1
EN30120Reading Theory / Reading Text
EN33620Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
WL30100Independent Research Project
WL30620Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Semester 2
EN30420Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
EN31320The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
EN38120Post-Colonial African Literature in English
IC33420TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
WL30140Independent Research Project
Final Year
Options
Choose 20 credits of the following FR or EL modules:
Semester 1
FR31020Gender in Modern and Contemporary French Culture
FR37020Self-writing, 18th-21st Centuries
Semester 2
FR37820History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
