Modules for course 3L3Q | BA/SEL
BA Sociology and English Literature
These were the modules for this course in the 2019–20 academic year.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
- SXU-1003: Understanding Society (20) or
SCS-1004: Cymdeithaseg a'r Byd Cyfoes (20) - QXE-1013: Reading, Thinking, Writing (20)
Optional Modules
40 credits from:
- HPS-1001: From Cradle to Grave (20) (Semester 2) or
HAC-1001: Y Wladwriaeth Les (20) (Semester 2) - HPS-1002: Power, Freedom & the State (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-1004: Death of God (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-1005: Existentialism (20) (Semester 1)
- SXY-1005: Introduction to Criminology (20) (Semester 2) or
SCY-1004: Cyflwyniad i Droseddeg (20) (Semester 2) - HPS-1006: Ess. Skills for Ac. Success (20) (Semester 1) or
HAC-1006: Ess. Skills for Ac. Success (20) (Semester 1) - SXY-1007: Intro to Criminal Justice (20) (Semester 1) or
SCY-1002: Cyflwyniad i Gyf Troseddol (20) (Semester 1)
40 credits from:
- QXE-1003: Intro. to Medieval Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1004: The Literature of Laughter (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1014: The Gothic in Literature/Film (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1015: Landmarks in Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1016: Children's Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
Year 2 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
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 2)
- QXE-2020: The Romantic Period in Britain (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2024: Alfred Hitchcock (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2027: Literature and Modernity (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2101: Beowulf to Malory (20) (Semester 1)
- Students must take (at least) 1 module dealing with Literature before 1800, and 1 from post-1800 modules.
20 credits from:
- SXU-2002: Cont. Social and Political Deb (20) (Semester 1)
- SXY-2004: Crime & the Media (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-2008: Sociology of Religion (20) (Semester 2)
- SXP-2010: World Poverty and Inequality (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-2011: Paradoxes of Self: Nietz./Jung (20) (Semester 1)
- SXP-2040: Social Work Perspectives (20) (Semester 2) or
SCP-2040: Safbwyntiau GC (20) (Semester 2) - SXP-2050: Issues in Equality (20) (Semester 1)
- HGH-2138: Europe 1945-1992 (20) (Semester 1)
- VPR-2301: 20th Century Phil of Religion (20) (Semester 2)
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- QXE-3012: Detective Fiction (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3022: Shakespeare and EM Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3028: Literature in the Community (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3031: Welsh Writing in English (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3034: Arthur: legend and super hero (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3086: Shakespeare's Afterlives (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3088: Bob Dylan (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3094: Realms of Magic (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3096: Medieval Women's Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3099: The English Dissertation (40) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3102: The 1820s: Print Explosion (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-3103: Wales: A European Contact Zone (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3105: Reading Myth (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3107: EM Lit: Sex, Sects and Scandal (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3110: Neo-Victorian Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3113: The Monstrous Middle Ages (20) (Semester 2)
- Students may not take a dissertation in both English Literature and the other discipline of the Joint Honours programme.
20 credits from:
- HPS-3001: Work Placement - Semester 1 (20) (Semester 1) or
HAC-3001: Lleoliad Gwaith - Semester 1 (20) (Semester 1) - HAC-3002: Addysg yn y Gymru Gyfoes (20) (Semester 1)
- HPS-3003: Race democracy * pol ideology (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-3006: Dissertation (40) (Semester 2) or
HAC-3006: Traethawd Hir (40) (Semester 2) - SXU-3010: Dissertation (20) (Semester 2) or
SCU-3010: Traethawd Hir (20) (Semester 2) - HPS-3011: Paradoxes of Self: Nietz..Jung (20) (Semester 1)
- SXY-3015: Crime & Power (20) (Semester 2)
- SXS-3040: Gender Perspectives (20) (Semester 2)
- SXP-3210: Issues in Housing (20) (Semester 1)