BA English Literature [Q300]
Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration 3 years
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Critical Practice
Year 1 Options
Choose at least 40 credits and up to 80 credits
American Literature 1819-1925
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
Literature And The Sea
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
Language Awareness for TESOL
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Introduction to Poetry
We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Year 1 Electives
Students may choose up to 40 credits from modules offered by other departments.
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 60 credits
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
Year 2 Options
Available both years Electives
Over years 2 and 3, up to 40 credits of modules in other departments may be taken subject to departmental approval
Final Year Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Independent Research Project
Final Year Options
Choose 60 credits (20 credits in semester 1 and 40 credits in semester 2):
Victorian Childhoods
Haunting Texts
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Crisis Writing
Writing Crime Fiction
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Literatures of Surveillance
Writing Horror
Writing Music
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