BA
English Studies and TESOL (with integrated year studying abroad)
[Q332]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021 (Last intake year is 2023/2024)
Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
WR11020Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Semester 2
IC13420Language Awareness for TESOL
Year 1
Options
Students must choose at least 40 credits from the following modules:
Semester 1
EN11220American Literature 1819-1925
WL10120Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
Semester 2
CL10120Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
WR11120Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1
Electives
Students may register for up to 20 credits from other departments
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
EN20120Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
IC23420TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
Year 2
Options
Choose at least 60 credits from the following modules:
Semester 1
EN23120In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
EN28720Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
WL20720A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
WR21120Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Semester 2
EN21120Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
EN21220Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
WL20320Short stories: Grit and Candour
Year 3
Core (120 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 2
IC33420TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Final Year
Timetable Core/Student Option
Choose 40 credits from the following modules:
Final Year
Options
Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following modules:
Semester 1
EN30120Reading Theory / Reading Text
EN31320The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
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)
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary