Study Schemes

BA Information and Library Studies / English Literature [PQ13]

Academic Year: 2013/2014Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001 (Last intake year is 2012/2013)

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

You must take the following modules:

Semester 1
EN10020

Encountering Texts

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

Year 1 Options

You should take further level 1 modules totalling 80 credits from the list of modules approved by the Faculty of Arts. This may include further modules offered by the English Dept, listed below:

Semester 1
CL10120

Greek And Roman Epic And Drama

EN10120

Re-writing, Re-visioning Texts

EN11220

Introduction To American Literature And Culture

Semester 2
CL10320

History Of Greek And Roman Ideas

EN10520

Contemporary Writing

Year 1 Core (60 Credits)

ILS Joint Honours. The following modules are core and must be taken.

Semester 1
IL10110

Foundations Of Information Studies

IL11510

Skills For Information Studies

IL11810

Social Contexts Of Information Studies

Semester 2
IL10210

Effective Communication

IL11620

Foundations Of Information Organisation And Retrieval

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

ENGLISH - You must take the following module

Semester 1
EN20120

Reading Theory/reading Text 1

Semester 2

Year 2 Options

You MUST take two of the following modules

Semester 1
EN20520

Medieval And Renaissance Writing

EN20720

Nineteenth Century Literature

Semester 2
EN20620

Restoration & Eighteenth Century Literature

EN20820

Twentieth Century British Literature

Year 2 Core (60 Credits)

The following modules are core and must be taken

Semester 1
IL31600

Information Retrieval

IL32520

Management Of Organisations

Semester 2
IL31620

Information Retrieval

IL32620

Marketing Of Services

Final Year Core (30 Credits)

ENGLISH - You must take the following module

Semester 1
EN30930

Reading Theory/ Reading Text

Semester 2

Final Year Options

ENGLISH - You should choose one module from the list below..

Semester 1
EN31000

Undergraduate Dissertation

EN31430

Elizabethan Drama: Hieronimo To Hamlet

EN32830

The Years Between: Women's Fiction, 1918-1939

EN36330

Heroes+dragon Slayers:literature At End Of First Millennium

Semester 2
EN31030

Undergraduate Dissertation

EN31830

Haunting Texts: Victorian And Modern Ghost Stories

EN34030

Poetry But Not As We Know It-uk Poetry Since 70s-remapping

EN34730

Detective And Crime Fiction

Final Year Core (50 Credits)

The following modules are core and must be taken

Semester 1
IL30510

Collection Management

IL32520

Management Of Organisations

Semester 2
IL32620

Marketing Of Services

Final Year Options

You must take either the following module or another 10 credit approved module

Semester 2
IL35010

Digital Information : Discovery To Delivery

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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