BA English Literature [Q300]
Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 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
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
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits
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
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Crisis Writing
Writing Crime Fiction
Haunting Texts
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Post-Colonial African Literature in English
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Literatures of Surveillance
Writing Horror
Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
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