Study Schemes

BA  English Studies and TESOL [Q33F]

Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021 (Last intake year is 2023/2024)

Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (100 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS01120

Information in a Post-Truth World

GS09520

How to be a Student 1

GS09920

Introduction to Humanities

Semester 2
GS09320

How to be a Student 2

GS09820

Representing the Other: Cultures and Clashes

Year 1  Options

Semester 2
GS00820

Understanding Change - Environment, People, Places

GS09620

The "Othered" Migrant: Social Science Perspectives

Year 2  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN11300

Critical Practice

WR11020

Beginning Creative Writing Part 1

Semester 2
EN11320

Critical Practice

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

Year 2  Options

Students must choose at least 40 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
EN11220

American Literature 1819-1925

IC10210

Academic Writing 1

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
CL10120

Greek and Roman Epic and Drama

EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN10520

Contemporary Writing

IC10310

Academic Writing 2

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WR11120

Beginning Creative Writing Part 2

Year 2  Electives

Students may register for up to 20 credits from other departments

Part 2 Rules

Year 3  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

Year 3  Options

Choose at least 60 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
CL20320

Classical Drama and Myth

EN20920

Literary Modernisms

EN23120

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

WR20220

Beginning the Novel

WR21120

Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction

WR22120

Adventures with Poetry

Semester 2
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN22120

Place and Self

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

WL20320

Short stories: Grit and Candour

WR20620

Writing Selves

WR21720

Shaping Plots

Final Year  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 2
IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

Final Year  Timetable Core/Student Option

Choose 40 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
EN30000

Undergraduate Dissertation

WR30000

The Writing Project

Semester 2
EN30040

Undergraduate Dissertation

WR30040

The Writing Project

Final Year  Options

Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

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

WR32120

Writing and Place

WR32620

Writing Music

WR32720

Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science

WR32820

Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing

Semester 2
EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30420

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

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

WR31220

Poetry for today

WR31820

Crisis Writing

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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