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BA Modern Languages / English Literature

Aberystwyth University

Institution
Aberystwyth University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Modern Languages / English Literature
Duration
4 years
UCAS code
QR90
Typical offer
A-level BBB

Entry requirements

A level: BBB-BBC IB: 30-28

About this course

BA in English Language and Literature and Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Core topics include research methods. Students can study languages from beginners or advanced level and typically receive 5.5 hours of linguistic and grammar classes per week. The course includes a year abroad in a country related to the chosen language and a final-year writing retreat at a country house in mid Wales.

Modules

  • Ancestral Voices
  • Critical Practice
  • American Literature 1800-2000
  • Exploring German Cultural Identity
  • Hispanic Civilization
  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
  • Introduction to European Film
  • Introduction to French Studies
  • Introduction to Poetry
  • Language Awareness for TESOL
  • Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe
  • Literature And The Sea
  • Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
  • Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
  • Study and Research Skills in Modern Languages
  • We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
  • French Language (Beginners)
  • French Language (Non-Beginners)
  • German Language (Beginners)
  • German Language (Non-Beginners)
  • Italian Language (Beginners)
  • Spanish Language (Beginners)
  • Spanish Language (Non-Beginners)
  • Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
  • French Language (Intermediate)
  • German Language (Intermediate)
  • Italian Language (Intermediate)
  • Spanish Language (Intermediate)
  • 'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
  • A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
  • Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
  • Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
  • Literary Geographies
  • Literary Modernisms
  • Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
  • Literature since the '60s
  • Place and Self
  • TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
  • Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
  • Contemporary German Politics
  • Cuba in Revolution
  • German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
  • Introduction to Historical Linguistics: Languages in Europe
  • Littérature fantastique, 18e-20e siècles / Fantastic literature, 18th-20th centuries
  • Rethinking late 20th Century Italy
  • Spanish American Cinema
  • Spanish Cinema ii: New Tendencies
  • The Language of German Drama
  • The Spanish Avant-Garde
  • Voyage Et Litterature En France / Travel and Literature in France
  • Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
  • Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
  • Haunting Texts
  • Independent Research Project
  • Literatures of Surveillance
  • Post-Colonial African Literature in English
  • Reading Theory / Reading Text
  • Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
  • TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
  • The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
  • Victorian Childhoods
  • Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
  • French Language (Advanced)
  • German Language (Advanced)
  • Italian Language (Advanced)
  • Spanish Language (Advanced)
  • Contemporary German Politics
  • Cuba in Revolution
  • German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
  • Introduction to Historical Linguistics: Languages in Europe
  • Littérature fantastique, 18e-20e siècles / Fantastic literature, 18th-20th centuries
  • Reading Late 19th Century Literature
  • Rethinking late 20th Century Italy
  • Spanish Cinema ii: New Tendencies
  • The Language of German Drama
  • Voyage Et Litterature En France / Travel and Literature in France