Study Schemes
BA German / English Literature [QR32]
Academic Year: 2013/2014Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
You must take the following modules:
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
Year 1 Options
GERMAN ADVANCED: you must take:
Year 1 Options
GERMAN BEGINNERS: you must take:
Semester 1 GE10700 German Language (beginners)
Semester 2 GE10740 German Language (beginners)
Year 1 Options
GERMAN ADVANCED: you must take either GE10910 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
GE10910 Ways Of Reading German Literature
Semester 2 EL10520 Introduction To European Film
EL10820 Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe
EL10920 Images Of Europe: The European Imagination
Year 1 Options
GERMAN 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
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:
Year 2 Options
You must choose 30 credits of the following Level 2 GE or EL modules but note that you cannot take both EL31900/20 and EL20500/10 in combination:
Semester 1 EL31900 Teaching English As A Foreign Language
GE20420 An Introduction To Variation In German
Semester 2 EL31920 Teaching English As A Foreign Language
GE27220 German-speaking Refugees In Literature And Culture
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
On your compulsory year abroad your registration will be:
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
You must take the following modules during your year abroad
Final Year Core (30 Credits)
ENGLISH - You must take the following module
Semester 1 EN30930 Reading Theory/ Reading Text
Final Year Options
ENGLISH - You should choose one module from the list below..
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
Semester 2 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:
Final Year Options
You must choose 30 credits of the following Level 3 GE or EL modules but note that you cannot take both EL31900/20 and EL30500/10 in combination:
Semester 1 EL31900 Teaching English As A Foreign Language
GE30420 Language And Society In German-speaking Countries
GE31010 The Language Of German Politics
Semester 2 EL31920 Teaching English As A Foreign Language
GE37020 Autobiography And Life Writing In German
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary