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 2
FR27220

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

FR27820

History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema

Year 2 Options

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

Semester 1
EN20920

Literary Modernisms

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

Semester 2
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

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

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

WL30140

Independent Research Project

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

Final Year Options

Choose 20 credits of the following FR or EL modules:

Semester 2
FR37220

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

FR37820

History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema