Study Schemes

BA French / English Literature [QR31]

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

Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Bursary;

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 Options

FRENCH ADVANCED: you must take:

Semester 1
FR19900

French Language Advanced

Semester 2
FR19930

French Language Advanced

Year 1 Options

FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must take:

Semester 1
FR10700

French Language (beginners)

Semester 2
FR10740

French Language (beginners)

Year 1 Options

FRENCH ADVANCED: you must take either FR12910 or EL10610 and must also choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1
EL10500

Introduction To European Film

EL10610

Language In Society: An Introduction To Sociolinguistics

EL10800

Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe

EL10900

Images Of Europe: The European Imagination

Semester 2
EL10520

Introduction To European Film

EL10820

Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe

EL10920

Images Of Europe: The European Imagination

FR12910

Images Of France Through Childhood Memory

Year 1 Options

FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must choose 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1
EL10500

Introduction To European Film

EL10610

Language In Society: An Introduction To Sociolinguistics

EL10800

Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe

EL10900

Images Of Europe: The European Imagination

Semester 2
EL10520

Introduction To European Film

EL10820

Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe

EL10920

Images Of Europe: The European Imagination

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 (30 Credits)

You must take:

Semester 1
FR20100

French Language

Semester 2
FR20130

French Language

Year 2 Options

You must choose 30 credits of the following Level 2 FR or EL modules but note that you cannot take both EL31900/20 and EL20500/10 in combination:

Semester 1
EL20220

Romance Linguistics

EL20500

Extended Essay Module

EL31900

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

FR20310

Language Of Business 1

FR23120

Langues Regionales Et Dialectes De France

FR29020

The Myth Of Paris

Semester 2
EL20510

Extended Essay Module

EL31920

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

FR25020

Semantics And Lexicography

FR26020

Humour In French Literature

FR29920

La France De Toujours

Year 3 Core (60 Credits)

On your compulsory year abroad your registration will be:

Semester 1
FRS0000

Year Abroad Assessment

Semester 2
FRS0060

Year Abroad Assessment

Year 3 Core (60 Credits)

You must take the following modules during your year abroad

Semester 1
ENS0000

Abroad Year Dummy

Semester 2
ENS0060

Abroad Year Dummy

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 (30 Credits)

You must take:

Semester 1
FR30100

French Language

Semester 2
FR30130

French Language

Final Year Options

You must choose 30 credits of the following Level 3 FR or EL modules but note that you cannot take both EL31900/20 and EL30500/10 in combination:

Semester 1
EL30100

Dissertation

EL30320

Romance Linguistics

EL30500

Extended Essay Module

EL31900

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

FR30310

The Language Of Business And Current Affairs

FR33120

Langues Regionales Et Dialectes De France

FR39020

The Nature Of The Beast: Animal, Human, Monster

Semester 2
EL30120

Dissertation

EL30510

Extended Essay Module

EL31920

Teaching English As A Foreign Language

FR33320

L'art Du RÉcit (19e - 20e SiÈcles)

FR35020

Semantics And Lexicography

FR36020

Decrasser Le Sacre: Religion And 20thc Literature

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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