BA English Studies and TESOL (with integrated year studying abroad) [Q332]

Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021

Last intake year is 2023/2024

Duration 4 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

WL10820

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

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN19920

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change

IC10310

Academic Writing 2

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WR11120

Beginning Creative Writing Part 2

Year 1 Electives

Students may register for up to 20 credits from other departments

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

Year 2 Options

Choose at least 60 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

WL23120

'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production

WR21120

Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction

WR22120

Adventures with Poetry

Semester 2
EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN22120

Place and Self

WL20320

Short stories: Grit and Candour

WR20620

Writing Selves

WR21720

Shaping Plots

Year 3 Core (120 Credits)

During your year abroad your registration will be:

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
ENS0000

Abroad Year Credits

ENS0100

Abroad Year Credits

Semester 2
ENS0060

Abroad Year Credits

ENS0160

Abroad Year Credits

Final Year Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
WL30100

Independent Research Project

Semester 2
WL30140

Independent Research Project

Final Year Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 2
IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

Final Year Options

Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

WR31820

Crisis Writing

WR32120

Writing and Place

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

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

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

WR31220

Poetry for today

WR31920

Writing Horror

WR32620

Writing Music