English Literature and Philosophy (BA)

This is a three-year degree programme comprising of some core modules that provide essential skills and training as well as a wide variety of optional modules for you to select from in order to tailor your degree to meet your interests.

Your scheduled contact hours will be supplemented by the opportunity for individual meetings with academic staff, by supportive academic progress meetings with your Personal Tutor and by the opportunity to attend research seminars and careers activities.

The School prides itself on nurturing a friendly, personalised and supportive environment for its students, with staff spending a great deal of time at various points in the semester in individual one-to-one meetings with students.

Year one

In Year 1, you take 60 credits of English Literature modules and 60 credits of Philosophy modules.

Core modulesModule titleModule codeCreditsMind, Thought and RealitySE410120 creditsMoral and Political PhilosophySE410320 creditsIntroduction to Poetry and the NovelSE213620 creditsReading and IdentitySE213120 creditsOptional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsFour Great Works in PhilosophySE410420 creditsLiterature, Culture, PlaceSE213320 creditsTexts in Time 1500-1800SE213220 creditsYear two

In Year 2, you take 60 credits of English Literature modules and 60 credits of Philosophy modules.

Optional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsPhilosophy of Contemporary PoliticsSE436320 creditsMetaphysicsSE436420 creditsContemporary Ethical TheorySE438820 creditsEpistemologySE439820 creditsKant & HeideggerSE439020 creditsPhilosophy of MindSE431320 creditsReading Old EnglishSE244120 creditsShakespeare and Renaissance DramaSE244220 creditsElizabethan ShakespeareSE244320 creditsModernist FictionsSE244520 creditsModern Welsh Writing in EnglishSE244820 creditsCreative Writing ISE241720 creditsTwentieth-Century Crime FictionSE245520 creditsFiction of The Indian SubcontinentSE228320 creditsIntroduction to Romantic PoetrySE245020 creditsModernism and the CitySE246320 creditsThe Post-1945 American NovelSE256620 creditsImaginary Journeys: More to HuxleySE245720 creditsIntroduction to Visual CultureSE246120 creditsFrench Philosophy: Sartre To BadiouSE438020 creditsAfrican-American LiteratureSE245120 creditsContemporary Women's WritingSE244620 creditsHistory of EnglishSE139820 creditsCredoau'r CymrySE440020 creditsModern Moral PhilosophySE437320 creditsChildren's Literature: Form & FunctionSE244720 creditsRepresenting the VictoriansSE246620 creditsThe Robin Hood TraditionSE236720 creditsFictive Histories/Historical FictionsSE246720 creditsGothic Fiction: The Romantic AgeSE246820 creditsRomanticism, Politics, AestheticsSE246920 creditsSocial Politics and National Style: American Fiction and Form 1920-1940SE247020 creditsWays of ReadingSE244920 creditsHanes Athroniaeth WleidyddolSE439520 creditsInternational Study Abroad (60 credits) AutumnSE625160 creditsInternational Study Abroad (60 credits) SpringSE625260 creditsLiterature and ScienceSE247120 creditsDickens in Many MediaSE247220 creditsPhilosophy of LanguageSE435820 creditsYear three

In Year 3, you take 60 credits of English Literature modules and 60 credits of Philosophy modules. If you wish, you can write a dissertation on a topic of your choice in either discipline.

Optional modules

Module titleModule codeCreditsThe Problem of ConsciousnessSE437920 creditsDissertation in PhilosophySE438520 creditsPhilosophy and Literary TheorySE432920 creditsNietzscheSE530620 creditsMetaethicsSE436720 creditsMoral PsychologySE437220 creditsNineteenth-Century Crime FictionSE239020 creditsDissertationSE252420 creditsWriting Caribbean SlaverySE256820 creditsCreative Writing II: Special TopicsSE237020 creditsHitchcockSE254420 creditsCreative Writing III: Special TopicsSE237320 creditsLove, Death and Marriage in Renaissance LiteratureSE258320 creditsR. S. Thomas: No Truce with the FuriesSE257820 creditsFrench TheorySE257020 creditsSecond-generation Romantic PoetsSE258220 creditsDesire, the Body and the Text: Psychoanalysis & LiteratureSE258020 creditsUtopia: Suffrage to CyberpunkSE258120 creditsCyfiawnder Byd-eangSE439420 creditsGender & Monstrosity: Late/Neo VictorianSE256420 creditsInterwar Experiments: Sex, Gender, StyleSE258420 creditsMiddle English Romance: Monsters and MagicSE258620 creditsInternational Study Abroad (60 credits) AutumnSE625160 creditsInternational Study Abroad (60 credits) SpringSE625260 creditsPhilosophy of ScienceSE431220 creditsPhilosophy and The ArtsSE432520 creditsBluestockings, Britannia, Unsex'd Females: Women in public life, 1770 - 1800SE258820 creditsGothic Fiction: The VictoriansSE258920 creditsModern British Political DramaSE259020 creditsNorse Myth and SagaSE256020 creditsCanterbury Tales: Genre, History, InterpretationSE257920 creditsFour English Poets of the Twentieth CenturySE259120 creditsPoetry in the Making: Modern Literary ManuscriptsSE259220 creditsPostcolonial TheorySE259320 creditsShakespeare's Late PlaysSE259420 creditsThe Graphic MemoirSE140920 creditsAdvanced Moral PhilosophySE439220 creditsHanes Athroniaeth yr 20fed Ganrif yng NghymruSE439620 creditsVisions of Past and Future in Children's LiteratureSE259520 creditsMedical FictionsSE259620 creditsMilitary Masculinities in the Long Nineteenth CenturySE259720 creditsFeminist PhilosophySE438620 creditsPolitical Philosophy: Methods & ApproachesSE440120 credits The University is committed to providing a wide range of module options where possible, but please be aware that whilst every effort is made to offer choice this may be limited in certain circumstances. This is due to the fact that some modules have limited numbers of places available, which are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, while others have minimum student numbers required before they will run, to ensure that an appropriate quality of education can be delivered; some modules require students to have already taken particular subjects, and others are core or required on the programme you are taking. Modules may also be limited due to timetable clashes, and although the University works to minimise disruption to choice, we advise you to seek advice from the relevant School on the module choices available.