BA English Literature / Education [QX33]
Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Last intake year is 2024/2025
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).
Partnerships in Principle and Practice
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Critical Practice
Year 1 Options
Choose one module (20 credits)
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
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2 Options
OPTIONAL MODULES : You must take 20/40-60 credits, ensuring a total of 100-140 credits over the 2nd and final years, from:
Year 2 Options
Choose 20 credits
Year 2 Options
Final Year Core (20 Credits)
Final Year Options
OPTIONAL MODULES : You must take 20/40-60 credits, ensuring a total of 100-140 credits over the 2nd and final years. You must only take either the AD or the ED module
Final Year Options
Choose 60 credits
Reading Theory / Reading Text
Victorian Childhoods
Haunting Texts
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
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
Post-Colonial African Literature in English
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Independent Research Project
Literatures of Surveillance
English and Creative Writing,Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
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