BA Welsh and English Literature
About this course
BA in Welsh and English Literature, a humanities degree centred on the study of Welsh and English literary texts, cultural history, and bilingual writing. Core topics include Research Methods. Students can undertake a workplace placement where Welsh is spoken daily. The first year covers foundational modules such as Reading Up Close, Ways of Reading: Literature, Culture, Theory, and Writing at University and Beyond. The second year features compulsory training in professional Welsh through Yr Iaith ar Waith alongside options spanning Shakespeare's Worlds, Victorian Worlds: Forms of Transformation, and Feminisms. The final year includes the compulsory module Literature for All and a dissertation option. Optional modules in the final year allow specialisation in areas such as Postcolonial Theory, John Milton, and American Poetry after Modernism.
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Entry requirements
A level: AAB (Welsh First or Second Language, and Creative Writing, English Language and Literature, or English Literature)
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What students say
Based on about 13 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 96%
- Learning opportunities: 98%
- Assessment and feedback: 100%
- Academic support: 97%
- Organisation and management: 97%
- Learning resources: 96%
- Student voice: 96%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 10 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 90%
- Moved to a lower qualification: 10%
What graduates do next
Based on about 6 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 75%
- Working and studying: 10%
- Unemployed: 15%
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: 90%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 90%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 90%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 30 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 5%
- Wales: 95%
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
- Reading Up Close
- Ways of Reading: Literature, Culture, Theory
- Writing at University and Beyond
- Sgiliau Astudio Llenyddiaeth
- Sgiliau Iaith
- Iaith ac Ystyr
- Awdur, Testun a Darllenydd
- Y Gymraeg: Iaith a Chymdeithas
- Y Gymraeg yn ei Chymdeithas
- Yr Iaith ar Waith
- 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
- Dafydd ap Gwilym a'i Gyfnod
- Llenyddiaeth Plant
- Theori a Beirniadaeth Lenyddol
- Bywydau Llên
- Tafodieitheg
- Sosioieithyddiaeth a’r Gymraeg
- Literature for All
- Dafydd ap Gwilym a'i Gyfnod
- Llenyddiaeth Plant
- Theori a Beirniadaeth Lenyddol
- Bywydau Llên
- Tafodieitheg
- Sosioieithyddiaeth a’r Gymraeg
- Yr Ystafell Ddosbarth
- Cyfieithu Proffesiynol
- Blas ar Ymchwil
- Ymchwilio Estynedig
- 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
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Welsh and English Literature at Cardiff University earn?
The median salary is £32,000 after 15 months, £25,500 after 3 years, £30,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £27,000 and £33,500. The £30,500 median after five years is £2,500 more than the UK median for Literature in English.
What do graduates of BA Welsh and English Literature at Cardiff University do next?
80% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Welsh and English Literature at Cardiff University?
96% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Welsh and English Literature at Cardiff University?
The typical offer is AAB at A level. The average entrant had 162 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA Welsh and English Literature at Cardiff University?
90% of students continued into their second year, and 0% left higher education.