Photography / English Literature
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Key Facts
WQ63-
UCAS Tariff
120 - 104
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Course duration
3 years
Further details on entry requirements
Apply NowStudying Photography and English Literature at Aberystwyth University will allow you to develop proficiencies related to photographic image capture and reproduction in analogue and digital form, while exploring a wide range of literary texts from the early medieval period to the present day. You will gain research skills and a specialist knowledge of world literature, alongside practical competencies in an array of photographic dimensions. You will develop forms of expression and critical thinking, all grounded in a detailed and broad understanding of literary history and an applied knowledge of literary theory. Your practical, critical, theoretical and historical engagement with photography and literature throughout your degree will furnish you with a wide range of transferrable skills that are highly sought by employers.
Course Overview
Modules September start - 2022
Please note: The modules listed below are those currently intended for delivery during the next academic year and may be subject to change. They are included here to give an indication of how the course is structured.
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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Photographic Practice 1: Presence / Place | AR11520 | 20 |
Photographic Practice II : Identity/Face | AR11620 | 20 |
Photography Begins: European Genius and the Birth of a New Aesthetic | AH11820 | 20 |
Ancestral Voices | EN10220 | 20 |
Critical Practice | EN11320 | 20 |
Options
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product | IC17720 | 20 |
American Literature 1819-1925 | EN11220 | 20 |
Contemporary Writing | EN10520 | 20 |
Greek and Roman Epic and Drama | CL10120 | 20 |
Introduction to Poetry | WL10420 | 20 |
Language Awareness for TESOL | IC13420 | 20 |
Literature And The Sea | WL11420 | 20 |
Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature | WL10120 | 20 |
The Beginning of the English Language | EN11520 | 20 |
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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Documentary Photography | AH24020 | 20 |
Photographic Practice III: Constructed Images | AR24320 | 20 |
Photographic Practice IV: Documentary Storytelling | AR24420 | 20 |
Thinking Photography? Post-Modernism, Anti-Modernism and the Politics of Identity | AH22820 | 20 |
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues | EN20120 | 20 |
Options
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s | WL20720 | 20 |
Classical Drama and Myth | CL20320 | 20 |
Contemporary Queer Fiction | EN21620 | 20 |
Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis | EN21120 | 20 |
Demons, Degenerates and New Women (Fin de Siecle Fictions) | EN23420 | 20 |
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1 | IC27720 | 20 |
Exploring Professional Writing | WL20120 | 20 |
In the Olde Days: Medieval Texts and Their World | EN23120 | 20 |
Literary Geographies | EN21020 | 20 |
Literary Modernisms | EN20920 | 20 |
Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century | EN21220 | 20 |
Literature since 1945 | EN22920 | 20 |
Place and Self | EN22120 | 20 |
Shakespeare, Jonson and Company | EN23020 | 20 |
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780 | EN28720 | 20 |
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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Options
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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American Literature in the Twentieth Century | EN39420 | 20 |
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2 | IC37820 | 20 |
Haunting Texts | EN30820 | 20 |
Literatures of Surveillance | WL35320 | 20 |
Reading Theory / Reading Text | EN30120 | 20 |
Reimagining the World Wars: Contemporary Historical Fictions | EN30720 | 20 |
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now | WL30620 | 20 |
Romantic Eroticism | EN30520 | 20 |
Speculative Fiction and the Climate Crisis | EN33320 | 20 |
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920a | EN31320 | 20 |
Undergraduate Dissertation | EN30040 | 40 |
Victorian Childhoods | EN30320 | 20 |
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English | EN30420 | 20 |
* Also available partially or entirely through the medium of Welsh
Careers
Course Content
Typical Entry Requirements
UCAS Tariff 120 - 104
A Levels BBB-BCC, plus satisfactory portfolio
GCSE requirements (minimum grade C/4):
English or Welsh
BTEC National Diploma:
DDM-DMM, plus satisfactory portfolio
International Baccalaureate:
30-28, plus satisfactory portfolio
European Baccalaureate:
75%-65%, plus satisfactory portfolio
English Language Requirements:
See our Undergraduate English Language Requirements for this course. Pre-sessional English Programmes are also available for students who do not meet our English Language Requirements.
Country Specific Entry Requirements:
International students whose qualification is not listed on this page, can check our Country Specific Entry Requirements for further information.
The University welcomes undergraduate applications from students studying the Access to Higher Education Diploma or T-level qualifications, provided that relevant subject content and learning outcomes are met. We are not able to accept Access to Higher Education Diplomas or T-levels as a general qualification for every undergraduate degree course.
Our inclusive admissions policy values breadth as well as depth of study. Applicants are selected on their own individual merits and offers can vary. If you would like to check the eligibility of your qualifications before submitting an application, please contact the Undergraduate Admissions Office for advice and guidance.