BA English Literature and Philosophy
Entry requirements
A level: AAB (Creative Writing, English Language and Literature, or English Literature)
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and Philosophy, combining literary study with philosophical inquiry. Core topics include Research Methods. Final-year modules include a philosophy project applying research to real-world ethical or social problems, and a literature module centring on detailed examination of a single text. The programme allows specialisation in preferred areas of study in the final year.
Modules
- Reading Up Close
- Ways of Reading: Literature, Culture, Theory
- Moral and Political Philosophy
- Mind, Language and Belief
- Writing at University and Beyond
- Transforming Visions: Text and Image
- Reason and its Limits
- Philosophy of Language
- Shakespeare's Worlds
- Twentieth-century Literature: Conflict, Crisis, Experimentation
- Victorian Worlds: Forms of Transformation
- Contemporary Literature and Culture: States of Emergency
- Eighteenth-century and Romantic Poetry and Prose
- Britain and Beyond: Literatures of the Medieval World
- Seen and Unseen: Tracing the (In)visible in Film and Visual Culture
- Feminisms
- Literature, Science and Environment
- Uncanny Encounters: Gothic and Culture from the 1760s to the Present
- Race, Empire, Nation
- A History of Books from Parchment to Pixel
- Political Philosophy
- Credoau'r Cymry
- Modern Moral Philosophy
- Philosophy of Feminism
- Contemporary Moral Philosophy
- Contemporary Epistemology
- Minds, Bodies, Worlds
- Damcaniaethu Cyfalafiaeth
- French Existentialism
- Philosophy of Psychology
- Philosophical Aesthetics
- Literature for All
- Philosophy in Practice
- Literature and Science
- Dissertation
- Gender and Monstrosity: Late/Neo Victorian
- Utopia: Suffrage to Cyberpunk
- Postcolonial Theory
- Military Masculinities in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Island Stories: Literatures of the North Atlantic
- American Poetry after Modernism
- John Milton
- Apocalypse Then and Now
- Activist Poetry: Protest, Dissent, Resistance
- Visions of the Future: Climate Change & Fiction
- Romantic Circles: Collaboration, Radicalism and Creativity 1770-1830
- Shakespeare's Fractured Britain
- Visions of Past and Future in Children’s Books
- The Medieval Supernatural: Death, Demons and Ghosts
- Literature and Psychology: To Freud and Beyond
- 'And the Winner is...' The Role of Literary Prizes
- Cinema Across Asia
- Sound Encounters in the Medieval World
- Whodunnit? British Crime Fiction: Text, Screen and Sound
- Dissertation in Philosophy
- Cyfiawnder Byd-eang
- Belief & Irrationality
- Ethics of Knowing
- Beauty & Ethics
- Moral Responsibility
- A Sense of the Possible
- Paradoxes of Democracy
- Meaning Through Silence
- Aesthetic Injustice
- Reasons and Relationships
- Speech Acts Online
- Y Gyhoeddfa: Democratiaeth, Hunaniaeth, a Rheswm