BA
English Literature
[Q300]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1
Options
Choose at least 40 credits and up to 80 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
Year 1
Electives
Students may choose up to 40 credits from modules offered by other departments.
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
EN20120Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2
Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 60 credits
Semester 1
EN23120In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
EN28720Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
Year 2
Options
Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits
Semester 1
IC23420TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
WL20720A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
Semester 2
EN21120Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
EN21220Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
Final Year
Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
EN30120Reading Theory / Reading Text
Final Year
Options
Choose 60 credits (20 credits in semester 1 and 40 credits in semester 2):
Semester 1
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
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
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
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary