BA English Literature [Q300]
Academic Year 2024/2025
Campus Aberystwyth
Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration 3 years
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Year 1 Options
Choose at least 40 credits and up to 80 credits
Year 1 Electives
Students may choose up to 40 credits from modules offered by other departments.
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 60 credits
In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
Classical Drama and Myth
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
Place and Self
Year 2 Options
Available both years Electives
Over years 2 and 3, up to 40 credits of modules in other departments may be taken subject to departmental approval
Final Year Core (60 Credits)
Undergraduate Dissertation
Final Year Options
Choose 60 credits (20 credits in semester 1 and 40 credits in semester 2):
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Romantic Eroticism
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Literatures of Surveillance
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Haunting Texts
Victorian Childhoods
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Contact for this page:
English and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
Telephone Department: +44 01970 622534 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021
Email: english@aber.ac.uk