BA English Literature and Philosophy
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and Philosophy, combining literary study with philosophical inquiry. Core topics include Research Methods. Final-year modules include a philosophy project applying research to real-world ethical or social problems, and a literature module centring on detailed examination of a single text. The programme allows specialisation in preferred areas of study in the final year.
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Entry requirements
A level: AAB (Creative Writing, English Language and Literature, or English Literature)
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What students say
Based on about 50 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 95%
- Learning opportunities: 83%
- Assessment and feedback: 80%
- Academic support: 94%
- Organisation and management: 85%
- Learning resources: 89%
- Student voice: 85%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 100 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 92%
- Left higher education: 6%
- Moved to a lower qualification: 2%
What graduates do next
Based on about 20 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 65%
- Working and studying: 10%
- Further study: 15%
- Unemployed: 5%
Most common jobs
- Business and public service associate professionals: 17%
- Teaching Professionals: 13%
- Administrative occupations: 11%
- Media Professionals: 10%
- Sales occupations: 8%
- Find their work meaningful: 45%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 70%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 45%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 85 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 1%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 1%
- East Midlands: 1%
- West Midlands: 7%
- East of England: 5%
- London: 22%
- South East: 16%
- South West: 23%
- Wales: 22%
- Scotland: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 60 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 97%
- A degree: 3%
Modules
- Reading Up Close
- Ways of Reading: Literature, Culture, Theory
- Moral and Political Philosophy
- Mind, Language and Belief
- Writing at University and Beyond
- Transforming Visions: Text and Image
- Reason and its Limits
- Philosophy of Language
- Shakespeare's Worlds
- Twentieth-century Literature: Conflict, Crisis, Experimentation
- Victorian Worlds: Forms of Transformation
- Contemporary Literature and Culture: States of Emergency
- Eighteenth-century and Romantic Poetry and Prose
- Britain and Beyond: Literatures of the Medieval World
- Seen and Unseen: Tracing the (In)visible in Film and Visual Culture
- Feminisms
- Literature, Science and Environment
- Uncanny Encounters: Gothic and Culture from the 1760s to the Present
- Race, Empire, Nation
- A History of Books from Parchment to Pixel
- Political Philosophy
- Credoau'r Cymry
- Modern Moral Philosophy
- Philosophy of Feminism
- Contemporary Moral Philosophy
- Contemporary Epistemology
- Minds, Bodies, Worlds
- Damcaniaethu Cyfalafiaeth
- French Existentialism
- Philosophy of Psychology
- Philosophical Aesthetics
- Literature for All
- Philosophy in Practice
- Literature and Science
- Dissertation
- Gender and Monstrosity: Late/Neo Victorian
- Utopia: Suffrage to Cyberpunk
- Postcolonial Theory
- Military Masculinities in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Island Stories: Literatures of the North Atlantic
- American Poetry after Modernism
- John Milton
- Apocalypse Then and Now
- Activist Poetry: Protest, Dissent, Resistance
- Visions of the Future: Climate Change & Fiction
- Romantic Circles: Collaboration, Radicalism and Creativity 1770-1830
- Shakespeare's Fractured Britain
- Visions of Past and Future in Children’s Books
- The Medieval Supernatural: Death, Demons and Ghosts
- Literature and Psychology: To Freud and Beyond
- 'And the Winner is...' The Role of Literary Prizes
- Cinema Across Asia
- Sound Encounters in the Medieval World
- Whodunnit? British Crime Fiction: Text, Screen and Sound
- Dissertation in Philosophy
- Cyfiawnder Byd-eang
- Belief & Irrationality
- Ethics of Knowing
- Beauty & Ethics
- Moral Responsibility
- A Sense of the Possible
- Paradoxes of Democracy
- Meaning Through Silence
- Aesthetic Injustice
- Reasons and Relationships
- Speech Acts Online
- Y Gyhoeddfa: Democratiaeth, Hunaniaeth, a Rheswm
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English Literature and Philosophy at Cardiff University earn?
The median salary is £26,000 after 15 months, £25,000 after 3 years, £30,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £24,000 and £39,500. The £30,500 median after five years is £2,500 more than the UK median for Literature in English.
What do graduates of BA English Literature and Philosophy at Cardiff University do next?
85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA English Literature and Philosophy at Cardiff University?
95% 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 and Philosophy at Cardiff University?
The typical offer is AAB at A level. The average entrant had 130 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA English Literature and Philosophy at Cardiff University?
92% of students continued into their second year, and 6% left higher education.