BA English Studies and Climate Change
About this course
BA in English and Geography, combining literary studies with climate change analysis. Core topics include Research Methods. The course operates as an interdisciplinary learning community with problem-based learning through real-life scenarios and simulations. The Governance of Climate Change module introduces simulation-based learning, and students gain subject-specialist knowledge of fictional and non-fictional responses to the climate, spanning from Romanticism's accounts of 1816 to contemporary speculative fiction.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB-BCC IB: 30-28
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What students say
Based on about 57 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 94%
- Learning opportunities: 92%
- Assessment and feedback: 87%
- Academic support: 97%
- Organisation and management: 92%
- Learning resources: 98%
- Student voice: 88%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 65 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 91%
- Left higher education: 6%
- Moved to a lower qualification: 3%
What graduates do next
Based on about 11 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 70%
- Working and studying: 10%
- Further study: 15%
- Unemployed: 5%
Most common jobs
- Sales occupations: 15%
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 15%
- Elementary occupations: 15%
- Media Professionals: 10%
- Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 75%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 55%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 35%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 175 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 2%
- North West: 9%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 2%
- East Midlands: 6%
- West Midlands: 13%
- East of England: 8%
- London: 6%
- South East: 9%
- South West: 12%
- Wales: 33%
- Scotland: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 50 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 100%
Modules
- Beginning Creative Writing
- Climate and Climate Change
- Critical Practice
- American Literature 1800-2000
- Ancestral Voices
- Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- Introduction to Poetry
- Language Awareness for TESOL
- Literature And The Sea
- Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
- Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
- Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module
- 'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
- A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- Adventures with Poetry
- Climate Change and International Politics in the Anthropocene
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
- International Relations: Perspectives and Debates
- Literary Geographies
- Literary Modernisms
- Literature since the '60s
- Place and Self
- Shaping Plots
- Short stories: Grit and Candour
- TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
- Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- Writing Selves
- Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- Crisis Writing
- Independent Research Project
- Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
- Environmental Economics
- Haunting Texts
- Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
- 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 Crime Fiction
- Writing Horror
- Writing and Place
- Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English Studies and Climate Change at Aberystwyth University earn?
The median salary is £28,000 after 15 months, £24,000 after 3 years, £29,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £23,500 and £33,500. The £29,000 median after five years is the same as the UK median for English studies.
What do graduates of BA English Studies and Climate Change at Aberystwyth University do next?
95% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA English Studies and Climate Change at Aberystwyth University?
94% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA English Studies and Climate Change at Aberystwyth University?
The typical offer is BBB at A level. The average entrant had 109 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA English Studies and Climate Change at Aberystwyth University?
91% of students continued into their second year, and 6% left higher education.