Study Schemes

BA English Literature / Education [QX33]

Academic Year: 2024/2025Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Critical Practice

Semester 2

Ancestral Voices

Critical Practice

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Children's Development and Learning

Datblygiad a Dysgu Plant

Semester 2

Partnerships in Principle and Practice

Partneriaethau - Egwyddorion ac Ymarfer

Year 1 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1

American Literature 1819-1925

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2

Greek and Roman Epic and Drama

Contemporary Writing

Language Awareness for TESOL

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

Introduction to Poetry

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

Year 1 Options

Choose one module (20 credits)

Semester 1

Sgiliau Allweddol i Brifysgol

Key Skills for University

Health and Wellbeing in the Early Years

Semester 2

Datblygiad Iaith

Play and Learning:Theory and Practice

Language Development

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Psychology of Learning and Thinking

Seicoleg Dysgu a Meddwl

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Year 2 Options

OPTIONAL MODULES : You must take 20/40-60 credits, ensuring a total of 100-140 credits over the 2nd and final years, from:

Semester 1

Llythrennedd Mewn Plant Ifanc

Gweithio Gyda Phlant

Diogelu ac Ymarfer Proffesiynol

Literacy in Young Children

Education, Diversity and Equality

Working with Children

Safeguarding and Professional Practice

Semester 2

Dulliau Ymchwil

Gweithio Gyda Phlant

Research Methods

Working with Children

Making Sense of the Curriculum

Discourses Language and Education

Year 2 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1

Literary Modernisms

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

Semester 2

Literary Geographies

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

Literature since the '60s

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

Year 2 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1

Classical Drama and Myth

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

Semester 2

Place and Self

Final Year Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Assessment and Education

Asesu ac Addysg

Final Year Options

OPTIONAL MODULES : You must take 20/40-60 credits, ensuring a total of 100-140 credits over the 2nd and final years. You must only take either the AD or the ED module

Semester 1

Hawliau Plant

Traethawd Hir

Special Educational Needs

Children's Rights

Major dissertation

Semester 2

Datblygiad Mathemategol yn y Blynyddoedd Cynnar

Traethawd Hir

Cyfathrebu

Datblygiad Emosiynol a Chymdeithasol

Mathematical Development in the Early Years

Major dissertation

Communication

Emotional and Social Development

Final Year Options

Choose 60 credits

Semester 1

Undergraduate Dissertation

Reading Theory / Reading Text

Romantic Eroticism

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

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

Semester 2

Undergraduate Dissertation

Victorian Childhoods

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

Haunting Texts

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

Literatures of Surveillance

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
Sports Bursary
Music Bursary
International Excellence Scholarship
Residential Bursary
Aberystwyth Bursary
Care Leaver Bursary