BA English Studies and TESOL [Q330]

Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021

Last intake year is 2023/2024

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence Scholarship;

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 (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN11300

Critical Practice

WR11020

Beginning Creative Writing Part 1

Semester 2
EN11320

Critical Practice

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

Year 1 Options

Students must choose at least 40 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
EN11220

American Literature 1819-1925

IC10210

Academic Writing 1

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN19920

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change

IC10310

Academic Writing 2

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WL10820

We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present

WR11120

Beginning Creative Writing Part 2

Year 1 Electives

Students may register for up to 20 credits from other departments

Part 2 Rules

Final Year Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
WL30100

Independent Research Project

Semester 2
IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

WL30140

Independent Research Project

Final Year Options

Choose between 40 and 60 credits

Semester 1
EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

Semester 2
EN30420

Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English

EN31320

The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s

EN38120

Post-Colonial African Literature in English

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

Final Year Options

Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits

Semester 1
IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WR31820

Crisis Writing

WR32120

Writing and Place

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

Semester 2
IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WR31920

Writing Horror

WR32620

Writing Music