Study Schemes
BA Modern Languages / English Literature [QR90]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2025/2026
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 Options
PATHWAY A: Students taking a language at NON-BEGINNERS level MUST choose 40 credits of NON-BEGINNERS language modules:
Year 1 Options
PATHWAY B: Students taking a language at BEGINNERS level MUST choose 40 credits of BEGINNERS language modules:
Year 1 Options
Choose 20 credits
American Literature 1819-1925
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
Literature And The Sea
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
Language Awareness for TESOL
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Introduction to Poetry
We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Year 1 Options
All students MUST choose an additional 20 credits of the following language pathway specific, EL or other Level 1 content modules:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2 Options
PATHWAY A and B: Choose 40 credits of the following language pathway specific modules. Students must continue with the language pathway followed in Level 1.
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
FRENCH you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following FR or EL modules
Gender in Modern and Contemporary French Culture
Self-Writing, 18th-21st Centuries
History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
Year 2 Options
You must choose at least 20 credits from the following modules:
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
Year 2 Options
GERMAN you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following GR or EL modules
Die Wende: Representations of Division and Unification in German Film
German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
Year 2 Options
ITALIAN you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following IT or EL modules
Rethinking late 20th Century Italy
Year 2 Options
SPANISH you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following SP or EL modules
Final Year Options
PATHWAY A and B: Choose 40 credits of the following language pathway specific modules. Students must continue with the language pathway followed in Level 2.
Final Year Options
FRENCH you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following FR or EL modules
Gender in Modern and Contemporary French Culture
Self-writing, 18th-21st Centuries
History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
Final Year Options
GERMAN you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following GR or EL modules
Die Wende: Representations of Division and Unification in German Film
German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
Final Year Options
ITALIAN you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following IT or EL modules
Rethinking late 20th Century Italy
Final Year Options
Choose 60 credits
Reading Theory / Reading Text
Victorian Childhoods
Haunting Texts
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Independent Research Project
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
Post-Colonial African Literature in English
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Independent Research Project
Literatures of Surveillance
Final Year Options
SPANISH you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following SP or EL modules
Department of English & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
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- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary