BA Modern Languages / English Literature
About this course
BA in Modern Languages / English Literature, a degree combining the study of English literature, cultural history, and modern European languages. Core topics include Research Methods. The course includes a compulsory year abroad spent studying at a partner university or on a work placement. The first year covers core foundations through Ancestral Voices and Critical Practice, alongside optional modules in foreign languages and cultural studies. The second year focuses on Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues alongside further language options and thematic modules. The final year offers advanced language study and optional topics such as Independent Research Project, Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s), and Literatures of Surveillance.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB-BBC IB: 30-28
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What students say
Based on about 9 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 98%
- Learning opportunities: 95%
- Assessment and feedback: 90%
- Academic support: 96%
- Organisation and management: 92%
- Learning resources: 88%
- Student voice: 92%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 15 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 100%
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: 55%
- Working and studying: 15%
- Unemployed: 15%
Most common jobs
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 20%
- Administrative occupations: 15%
- Sales occupations: 15%
- Teaching Professionals: 15%
- Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 80%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 60%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 65%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 120 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 8%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 4%
- East Midlands: 4%
- West Midlands: 21%
- East of England: 8%
- London: 10%
- South East: 8%
- South West: 10%
- Wales: 24%
- Scotland: 2%
- Northern Ireland: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 15 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
Modules
- Ancestral Voices
- Critical Practice
- American Literature 1800-2000
- Exploring German Cultural Identity
- Hispanic Civilization
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- Introduction to European Film
- Introduction to French Studies
- Introduction to Poetry
- Language Awareness for TESOL
- Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe
- Literature And The Sea
- Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
- Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Study and Research Skills in Modern Languages
- We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
- French Language (Beginners)
- French Language (Non-Beginners)
- German Language (Beginners)
- German Language (Non-Beginners)
- Italian Language (Beginners)
- Spanish Language (Beginners)
- Spanish Language (Non-Beginners)
- Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- French Language (Intermediate)
- German Language (Intermediate)
- Italian Language (Intermediate)
- Spanish Language (Intermediate)
- '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
- Contemporary German Politics
- Cuba in Revolution
- German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
- Introduction to Historical Linguistics: Languages in Europe
- Littérature fantastique, 18e-20e siècles / Fantastic literature, 18th-20th centuries
- Rethinking late 20th Century Italy
- Spanish American Cinema
- Spanish Cinema ii: New Tendencies
- The Language of German Drama
- The Spanish Avant-Garde
- Voyage Et Litterature En France / Travel and Literature in France
- 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
- French Language (Advanced)
- German Language (Advanced)
- Italian Language (Advanced)
- Spanish Language (Advanced)
- Contemporary German Politics
- Cuba in Revolution
- German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
- Introduction to Historical Linguistics: Languages in Europe
- Littérature fantastique, 18e-20e siècles / Fantastic literature, 18th-20th centuries
- Reading Late 19th Century Literature
- Rethinking late 20th Century Italy
- Spanish Cinema ii: New Tendencies
- The Language of German Drama
- Voyage Et Litterature En France / Travel and Literature in France
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Modern Languages / English Literature at Aberystwyth University earn?
The median salary is £23,000 after 15 months, £18,500 after 3 years, £22,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £18,000 and £27,000. The £22,500 median after five years is £5,500 less than the UK median for Literature in English.
What do graduates of BA Modern Languages / English Literature at Aberystwyth University do next?
70% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Modern Languages / English Literature at Aberystwyth University?
98% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Modern Languages / English Literature at Aberystwyth University?
The typical offer is BBB at A level. The average entrant had 124 UCAS points.
Does BA Modern Languages / English Literature at Aberystwyth University include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has a compulsory year abroad.
How many students continue on BA Modern Languages / English Literature at Aberystwyth University?
100% of students continued into their second year, and 0% left higher education.