BA English Studies and TESOL (with integrated year studying abroad) [Q332]
Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 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).
Year 1 Options
Students must choose at least 40 credits from the following modules:
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).
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 60 credits from the following modules:
Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
Literature since the '60s
A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Shaping Plots
Adventures with Poetry
Literary Geographies
Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
Place and Self
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
Short stories: Grit and Candour
'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
Writing Selves
Final Year Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Independent Research Project
Final Year Options
Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following modules:
Reading Theory / Reading Text
Victorian Childhoods
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Poetry for today
Crisis Writing
Writing and Place
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
Literatures of Surveillance
Writing Horror
Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
English and Creative Writing,Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
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