BA English Literature [Q300]

Academic Year 2024/2025

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards

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)

Semester 1
EN11300

Critical Practice

Semester 2
EN11320

Critical Practice

EN10220

Ancestral Voices

Year 1 Options

Choose at least 40 credits and up to 80 credits

Semester 1
IC17700

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

EN11220

American Literature 1819-1925

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

IC17720

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

EN10520

Contemporary Writing

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

CL10120

Greek and Roman Epic and Drama

Year 1 Electives

Students may choose up to 40 credits from modules offered by other departments.

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Semester 1
EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Year 2 Options

Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 60 credits

Semester 1
EN23120

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

CL20320

Classical Drama and Myth

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

Semester 2
EN22120

Place and Self

Year 2 Options

Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits

Semester 1
IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

EN20920

Literary Modernisms

Semester 2
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

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)

Semester 1
EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30000

Undergraduate Dissertation

Semester 2
EN30040

Undergraduate Dissertation

Final Year Options

Choose 60 credits (20 credits in semester 1 and 40 credits in semester 2):

Semester 1
IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

EN30520

Romantic Eroticism

EN31320

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

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

Semester 2
WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

EN30420

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

IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

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