Psychology and English Literature

Psychology and English Literature degree

This degree in Psychology and English Literature is one of the most popular of our Joint Honours degrees, in which you devote your time equally between two subjects. If you have previously studied Psychology and English Literature and would like to pursue your interest in both subjects, then this degree in Psychology and English Literature may well be the course for you. If you are especially interested in the relationship between Psychology and English Literature, it would obviously be your ideal choice.

As a student of the Aberystwyth degree in Psychology and English Literature, you will divide your time between two excellent Departments with long traditions of excellence in their respective fields. Both departments have the highest reputation for the quality of the student experience which they offer you.

Psychology and English Literature degree course structure

Year 1

In the first year of your degree in Psychology and English Literature, you will study the following core modules, which lay the basis for all your future studies:

English:

• Encountering Texts
• Aspects of Genre

Psychology:

• Introduction to Psychology: Investigation and Communication
• Perspectives on Social and Individual Behaviour
• Perspectives on Psychobiology and Cognition

Years 2+3

In the second and third years of your degree in Psychology and English Literature, there is greater flexibility, as you develop your skills and focus your interests.

In Year 2, you take the following core modules:

English:

• Reading Theory/Reading Text and two of:
  • Medieval and Renaissance Writing
  • Nineteenth Century Literature
  • Restoration & Eighteenth Century Literature
  • Twentieth Century British Literature

Psychology: 

• Social Psychology
• Research Methods in Psychology
• Brain and Behaviour

Then, as your progress into your third year, there is much more opportunity to choose from an excellent and fascinating range of option modules in both subjects

Career opportunities related to degree in Psychology and English Literature

Graduates of the Psychology and English Literature degree progress to a very varied range of futures. The learning and teaching in both Departments is organised so that you maximise the transferable skills of research, analysis, presentation and creativity which are so much in demand from employers. As a graduate of the Aberystwyth degree in Psychology and English Literature, you will have developed your capacity to work both independently and as a member of a team; and you will be able to enter the employment market with greatly enhanced confidence in yourself and in what you have to offer to a wide range of prospective employers.