BA
English Studies and Climate Change
[FQ73]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 2
EN19920Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
WR11020Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Year 1
Options
Choose 40 credits
Semester 1
EN11220American Literature 1819-1925
IC17700Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
WL10120Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
Semester 2
CL10120Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
IC13420Language Awareness for TESOL
IC17720Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
WL11920Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
WR11120Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (80 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
EN20120Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Semester 2
EN21120Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
EN21220Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
IP22320The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module
Year 2
Options
Choose 40 credits from the following modules:
Semester 1
EN23120In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
EN28720Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
IC23420TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
IP20720Climate Change and International Politics in the Anthropocene
WL20720A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
WR21120Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Semester 2
GS28910Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
IP20120International Relations: Perspectives and Debates
WL20320Short stories: Grit and Candour
Final Year
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year
Timetable Core/Student Option
Choose 40 credits from the following modules:
Final Year
Options
Choose 60 credits from the following modules:
Semester 1
BR33420Global Biodiversity Conservation
EN30120Reading Theory / Reading Text
EN31320The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
IC37820Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
WL30620Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
WR32720Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
WR32820Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
Semester 2
EN30420Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
EN33620Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
IC33420TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
IC37820Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary