BA English Literature / Education
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and Education. Core topics include Research Methods, Communication & Writing, and Ethics & Professional Practice. Modules include Language Awareness for TESOL, Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product, and Professional Practice. Staff teaching on the programme are qualified to PhD level or have equivalent experience.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB-BCC IB: 30-28
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What students say
Based on about 25 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 88%
- Learning opportunities: 91%
- Assessment and feedback: 90%
- Academic support: 96%
- Organisation and management: 90%
- Learning resources: 88%
- Student voice: 84%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 45 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 80%
- Left higher education: 15%
- Moved to a lower qualification: 5%
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: 5%
- Further study: 15%
Most common jobs
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 20%
- Administrative occupations: 15%
- Teaching Professionals: 15%
- Sales occupations: 15%
- Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 85%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 85%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 90%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 90 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 5%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 1%
- East Midlands: 2%
- West Midlands: 9%
- London: 5%
- South East: 3%
- South West: 5%
- Wales: 71%
Who gets in
Based on about 35 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 95%
- Other HE qualification: 5%
- No formal qualifications: 5%
Modules
- Ancestral Voices
- Critical Practice
- Children's Development and Learning
- Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
- 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
- Education, Sustainability and Ethical Citizenship
- Health and Wellbeing in the Early Years
- Language Development in the Early Years
- Play Matters: Understanding and Supporting Learning and Play
- Professional Practice
- Educational Blueprints: Insights into Curriculum and Assessment
- Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- Leadership
- Literacy in Young Children
- Research Methods
- Safeguarding and Professional Practice
- 'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
- A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
- Literary Geographies
- Literary Modernisms
- Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- Literature since the '60s
- Place and Self
- TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
- Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
- Haunting Texts
- Independent Research Project
- 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 in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
- Children's Rights
- Emotional and Social Development
- Major dissertation
- Mathematical Development in the Early Years
- Special Educational Needs
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English Literature / Education at Aberystwyth University earn?
The median salary is £30,000 after 15 months, £18,500 after 3 years, £24,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £19,500 and £29,000. The £24,500 median after five years is £3,500 less than the UK median for Literature in English.
What do graduates of BA English Literature / Education 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 Literature / Education at Aberystwyth University?
88% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA English Literature / Education at Aberystwyth University?
The typical offer is BBB at A level. The average entrant had 104 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA English Literature / Education at Aberystwyth University?
80% of students continued into their second year, and 15% left higher education.