Modules for course 32N6 | BA/ELM
BA English Literature and Music
These were the modules for this course in the 2020–21 academic year.
You can also view the modules offered in the year 2021–22; 2022–23.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
20 credits from:
- WXM-1300: Music since 1850 (20) (Semester 1) or
WXC-1300: Cerddoriaeth Ers 1850 (20) (Semester 1) - WXM-1301: Music 1550 -1850 (20) (Semester 2) or
WXC-1301: Cerddoriaeth 1550 - 1850 (20) (Semester 2)
Optional Modules
40 credits from:
- QXE-1003: Intro. to Medieval Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1004: The Literature of Laughter (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1014: The Gothic in Literature/Film (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1015: Landmarks in Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1016: Children's Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
40 credits from:
- WXM-1004: Intro - Harmony & Counterpoint (20) (Semester 1) or
WXC-1004: Cyflwyniad Harmoni/Gwrthbwynt (20) (Semester 1) - WXK-1010: Sonic Art (20) (Semester 1) or
WXC-1010: Celfyddyd Sonig (20) (Semester 1) - WXK-1011: Composition Year 1 (20) (Semester 2) or
WXC-1011: Cyfansoddi Blwyddyn 1 (20) (Semester 2) - WXP-1016: Solo Performance Year 1 (20) (Semester 2) or
WXC-1016: Perfformio Unawdol Blwyddyn 1 (20) (Semester 2)
Year 2 Modules
Compulsory Modules
20 to 40 credits from:
- WXM-2011: Musicology Year 2 (20) (Semester 2) or
WXC-2011: Cerddoleg Blwyddyn 2 (20) (Semester 2) - WXM-2205: Notation and Editing (20) (Semester 2)
- WXK-2233: Composition Year 2 (20) (Semester 2) or
WXC-2233: Cyfansoddi Blwyddyn 2 (20) (Semester 2) - WXK-2235: Acousmatic Composition (20) (Semester 2)
- WXP-2241: Solo Performance Year 2 (20) (Semester 2) or
WXC-2241: Perfformio Unawdol Blwyddyn 2 (20) (Semester 2) - WXM-2269: Community Arts Placement (20) (Semester 2) or
WXC-2269: Lleoliad Cymunedol Celfyddydol (20) (Semester 2)
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- QXE-2003: Jonson to Johnson (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2005: Victorian Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2013: Renaissance and Reformation (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 1) or
QXP-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 1) - QXE-2020: The Romantic Period in Britain (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2024: Alfred Hitchcock (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2064: Film Theory (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2101: Beowulf to Malory (20) (Semester 2)
20 to 40 credits from:
- WXM-2022: Popular Music Analysis (20) (Semester 1)
- WXK-2191: Songwriting (20) (Semester 2) or
WXC-2191: Ysgrifennu Caneuon (20) (Semester 2) - WXM-2270: Music Teaching in Context (20) (Semester 1)
- WXM-2303: Genres & Composers A (20) (Semester 1) or
WXC-2303: Genres a Chyfansoddwyr A (20) (Semester 1) - WXM-2304: Genres and Composers B (20) (Semester 2)
- WXP-2307: Ensembles and Groups A (20) (Semester 1)
- WXC-2411: Hanes Cerddoriaeth Cymru B (20) (Semester 1)
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
0 to 40 credits from:
- WXM-3277: Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2) or
WXC-3277: Traethawd Hir (40) (Semester 1 + 2) - WXM-3283: Edition (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- WXK-3289: Composition (project) (40) (Semester 1 + 2) or
WXC-3289: Cyfansoddi (project) (40) (Semester 1 + 2) - WXP-3298: Solo Performance Project (40) (Semester 1 + 2) or
WXC-3298: Project Perfformio Unawdol (40) (Semester 1 + 2) - SPECIAL PROJECTS: Students must choose at least ONE Project, either in Music or in other subject. Students are welcome to choose more than one project: one in each school
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- QXE-3012: Detective Fiction (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3022: Shakespeare and EM Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3031: Welsh Writing in English (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3034: Arthur: legend and super hero (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3096: Medieval Women's Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3099: The English Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- QXE-3107: EM Lit: Sex, Sects and Scandal (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3110: Neo-Victorian Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3114: Dystopian Fiction (20) (Semester 1)
- Students may not take a dissertation in both English Literature and the other discipline of the Joint Honours programme.
20 to 60 credits from:
- WXM-3022: Popular Music Analysis (20) (Semester 1)
- WXP-3111: Ensembles and Groups B (20) (Semester 1)
- WXK-3191: Songwriting (20) (Semester 2) or
WXC-3191: Ysgrifennu Caneuon (20) (Semester 2) - WXK-3235: Acousmatic Composition (20) (Semester 2)
- WXM-3270: Music Teaching in Context (20) (Semester 1)
- WXM-3305: Genres and Composers C (20) (Semester 1) or
WXC-3305: Genres a Chyfansoddwyr C (20) (Semester 1) - WXM-3306: Genres and Composers D (20) (Semester 2)
- WXM-3311: Community Arts Placement (20) (Semester 2) or
WXC-3311: Lleoliad Cymunedol Celfyddodol (20) (Semester 2) - WXC-3411: Hanes Cerddoriaeth Cymru B (20) (Semester 1)