Study Schemes

BA English Literature [Q300]

Academic Year: 2013/2014Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (60 Credits)

You must take the following modules:

Semester 1
EN10020

Encountering Texts

EN10120

Re-writing, Re-visioning Texts

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

Year 1 Options

You should take further level 1 modules totalling 60 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

EN11220

Introduction To American Literature And Culture

Semester 2
CL10320

History Of Greek And Roman Ideas

EN10520

Contemporary Writing

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (100 Credits)

You must take the following:

Semester 1
EN20120

Reading Theory/reading Text 1

EN20520

Medieval And Renaissance Writing

EN20720

Nineteenth Century Literature

Semester 2
EN20620

Restoration & Eighteenth Century Literature

EN20820

Twentieth Century British Literature

Year 2 Options

You should choose 20 credits from the following list of Approved Option Modules.

Semester 2
EN31120

Arthurian Literature; Medieval To Renaissance

EN33020

Shakespeare, Jonson And Company

EN33420

Demons, Degenerates And New Women: Fin De Siecle Fictions

EN37820

Forms Of Children's Narrative Prose

EN38420

Romantic Visions, Dangerous Worlds

EN38920

Other Worlds: Utopia To Lilliput

Final Year Core (60 Credits)

You must take the following:

Semester 1
EN30930

Reading Theory/ Reading Text

EN31000

Undergraduate Dissertation

Semester 2
EN31030

Undergraduate Dissertation

Final Year Options

You should choose 60 credits from the 30-credit options in the following list of approved option modules.

Semester 1
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

EN39030

The American Novel In The Nineteenth Century

Semester 2
EN31530

Reimagining The World Wars: Contemporary Historical Fictions

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

EN38330

Romantic Eroticism

EN39330

Twentieth Century American Literature

Available both years Electives

Over years 2 and 3, up to 40 credits of any approved modules may be taken subject to timetable and the approval of the Director of UG Programmes

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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