Study Schemes
BA English Literature [Q300]
Academic Year: 2013/2014Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (60 Credits)
You must take the following modules:
Semester 1 EN10120 Re-writing, Re-visioning Texts
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
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
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
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