BA French / English Literature [QR31]

Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Last intake year is 2024/2025

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).

Semester 1

EN11300

Critical Practice

Semester 2

EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN11320

Critical Practice

Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option

FRENCH ADVANCED: you must take:

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

FR11900

French Language (Non-Beginners)

Semester 2

FR11940

French Language (Non-Beginners)

Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option

FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must take:

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

FR11700

French Language (Beginners)

Semester 2

FR11740

French Language (Beginners)

Year 1 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1

EN11220

American Literature 1800-2000

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

Semester 2

EN19920

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WL10820

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

Year 1 Options

Choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1

EL10000

Study and Research Skills in Modern Languages

EL10500

Introduction to European Film

EL10800

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

FR11100

Introduction to French Studies

Semester 2

EL10020

Study and Research Skills in Modern Languages

EL10520

Introduction to European Film

EL10820

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

FR11120

Introduction to French Studies

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

FR22100

French Language (Intermediate)

Semester 2

FR22140

French Language (Intermediate)

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Year 2 Options

Choose 20 credits of the following FR or EL modules:

Semester 1

FR27320

Voyage Et Litterature En France / Travel and Literature in France

Semester 2

EL29920

Introduction to Historical Linguistics: Languages in Europe

FR27220

Litterature fantastique, 18e-20e siecles / Fantastic literature, 18th-20th centuries

Year 2 Options

You must choose at least 20 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1

EN20920

Literary Modernisms

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

Semester 2

EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

Year 2 Options

You must choose at least 20 credits from the following modules:

Semester 2

EN22120

Place and Self

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

WL23120

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

Year 3 Core (60 Credits)

You must take the following modules during your year abroad

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

ENS0000

Abroad Year Credits

Semester 2

ENS0060

Abroad Year Credits

Year 3 Core (60 Credits)

During your Year Abroad you must take the following:

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

FRS0000

Year Abroad Assessment

Semester 2

FRS0060

Year Abroad Assessment

Final Year Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

FR33400

French Language (Advanced)

Semester 2

FR33440

French Language (Advanced)

Final Year Options

Choose 60 credits

Semester 1

EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30420

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

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL30100

Independent Research Project

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

Semester 2

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN31320

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

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

EN38120

Post-Colonial African Literature in English

IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL30140

Independent Research Project

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

Final Year Options

Choose 20 credits of the following FR or EL modules:

Semester 1

FR37320

Voyage Et Litterature En France / Travel and Literature in France

Semester 2

FR37220

Litterature fantastique, 18e-20e siecles / Fantastic literature, 18th-20th centuries