B.A. International Politics / English Literature

Course Content

Year 1 Core (40 Credits) You must take the following modules:

Semester 1

• Encountering Texts EN10020

Semester 2

• Ancestral Voices EN10220

Year 1 Options All students MUST take the Department's core module Exploring the International 1 and 2 (40 credits over both semesters)

Semester 1

• Cyflwyniad I Wleidyddiaeth Ryngwladol 1 GW12420
• Exploring The International 1 IP12420

Semester 2

• Cyflwyniad I Wleidyddiaeth Ryngwladol 2 GW12520

• Exploring The International 2 IP12520

Year 1 Options Part One students may take the following optional modules

Semester 1

• Behind The Headlines IP12620
• The Making Of The Modern World: International History Since 1789 IP12820
• Understanding The Social World SA10120

Semester 2

• War, Strategy And Intelligence IP10320

• Approaching The Political IP10820

Year 1 Options You may choose up to 40 credits from the following modules

Semester 1

• Greek And Roman Epic And Drama CL10120
• Re-writing, Re-visioning Texts EN10120
• American Literature 1819-1925 EN11220

Semester 2

• History Of Greek And Roman Ideas CL10320

• Contemporary Writing EN10520

Year 1 Options Student wishing to study modules through the medium of Welsh can take the following:

Semester 1

• Cefn Gwlad A'r Ddinas DA10210
• Y Tu ôl I'r Penawdau GW12620
• Creu'r Byd Modern: Hanes Ryngwladol Ers 1789 GW12820
• Argyfwng, Gwrthryfel A Ffydd Yn Ewrop C.1000-1540 HA10820
• Concwest, Uno A Hunaniaeth Yng Nghymru 1250-1800 HC11120

Semester 2

• Pobl A Lle DA10110
• Amgylchedd Cymru DA10810
• Byw Gyda Risg DA12810
• Rhyfel Strategaeth A Chuddwybodaeth GW10320
• Defnyddio Syniadau Gwleidyddol GW11220

• Cymru A'r Byd: Cysylltiadau A Dylanwadau 1860 - 2000 HC11520

Year 2 Core (20 Credits) ENGLISH - You must take the following module

Semester 1

• Literary Theory: Debates And Dialogues EN20120

Year 2 Options Student must take the following Degree Scheme Core Module (IP30120 or GW30120) in International Politics before being eligible for graduation.
Semester 2

• Damcaniaethau Gwleidyddiaeth Ryngwladol GW30120

• Theorizing International Relations IP30120

Year 2 Options You should choose at least 20 credits from the following modules

Semester 1

• Literary Modernisms EN20920
• The Shapes Of Tragedy EN22020

Semester 2

• Nineteenth Century Literature EN20720
• Place And Self EN22120

• Literature Since 1945 EN22920

Year 2 Options You may choose up to 40 credits from the following modules

Semester 1

• Contemporary Queer Fiction EN31620
• Writing Women For The Public Stage, 1670-1780 EN38720
• Asian American Literature WL31720

Semester 2

• Shakespeare, Jonson And Company EN33020
• Demons, Degenerates And New Women: Fin De Siecle Fictions EN33420
• Forms Of Children's Narrative Prose EN37820

Final Year Core (30 Credits) ENGLISH - You must take the following module

Semester 1

• Reading Theory/ Reading Text EN30930

Final Year Options ENGLISH - You should take 30 credits from the following modules

Semester 1

• Elizabethan Drama: Hieronimo To Hamlet EN31430
• Victorian Childhoods EN31730
• Twentieth Century Welsh Writing In English EN37930
• Romantic Eroticism EN38330

Semester 2

• Reimagining The World Wars: Contemporary Historical Fictions EN31530
• Haunting Texts: Victorian And Modern Ghost Stories EN31830
• Poetry But Not As We Know It-uk Poetry Since 70s-remapping EN34030
• Detective And Crime Fiction EN34730
• A Virtuous Vice? The True History Of The English Novel .... EN37730
• Twentieth Century American Literature EN39330