BA French / English Literature [QR31]
Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
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 (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Critical Practice
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must take:
Year 1 Options
Choose 20 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 Options
FRENCH ADVANCED: you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (30 Credits)
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2 Options
Choose 30 credits of the following FR or EL modules:
Year 2 Options
You must choose at least 20 credits from the following modules:
Literary Geographies
Literature since the '60s
TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
Year 2 Options
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
You must take the following modules during your year abroad
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
Final Year Core (30 Credits)
Final Year Options
Choose 60 credits
Reading Theory / Reading Text
Victorian Childhoods
Haunting Texts
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Independent Research Project
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
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
Independent Research Project
Literatures of Surveillance
Final Year Options
Choose 30 credits of the following FR or EL modules:
Dissertation
Extended Essay Module
Brazilian / Portuguese Language III
The Language of Business and Current Affairs
Self-writing, 18th-21st Centuries
History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
"...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France
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