Modules for course 3VQV | BA/PREN
BA Philosophy and Religion and English Literature
This is a provisional list of modules to be offered on this course in the 2021–22 academic year.
The list may not be complete, and the final course content may be different.
You can also view the modules offered in the year 2020–21; 2022–23.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
Optional Modules
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 1)
- QXE-1016: Children's Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-1600: Transnational Cultures (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-1700: Creating National Histories (20) (Semester 1)
60 credits from:
- HPS-1002: Power, Freedom & the State (20) (Semester 1)
- HPS-1004: Death of God (20) (Semester 1)
- HPS-1005: Existentialism (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-1007: Islam:Hist, Soc and Beliefs (20) (Semester 1)
- VPR-1102: Intro to Ancient Philosophy (20) (Semester 1)
- HAC-1105: Moeseg: Agweddau Crefyddol (20) (Semester 1)
- VPR-1106: Intro: Judaism & Christianity (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-1110: Themes - Eastern Religion/Phil (20) (Semester 2)
- VPC-1303: Cyflwyniad i Gristnogaeth (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-1331: Living the Good Life (20) (Semester 1)
Year 2 Modules
Compulsory Modules
60 credits from:
- QXE-2003: Jonson to Johnson (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2005: Victorian Literature (20) (Semester 1)
- 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 2)
- QXE-2101: Beowulf to Malory (20) (Semester 2)
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- HPS-2001: Work Placement - Semester 1 (20) (Semester 1) or
HAC-2001: Lleoliad Gwaith - Semester 1 (20) (Semester 1) - HAC-2002: Addysg yn y Gymru Gyfoes (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-2004: Modern Ideas & Movements (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-2005: Work Placement - Semester 2 (20) (Semester 2) or
HAC-2005: Lleoliad Gwaith - Semester 2 (20) (Semester 2) - HPS-2008: Sociology of Religion (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-2011: Paradoxes of Self: Nietz./Jung (20) (Semester 1)
- HPS-2015: Serial Killers (20) (Semester 2)
- HTH-2154: Holy Wars 1095-1197 (20) (Semester 1)
- VPR-2202: Applied Ethics (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-2205: Nature and Western Religion (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-2207: Independent Study (20) (Semester 1)
- VPR-2305: Hinduism in the Modern World (20) (Semester 1)
- VPR-2307: Tales of Might and Morality (20) (Semester 1)
- VPR-2404: Judaism in the Modern World (20) (Semester 2) or
VPC-2404: Iddewiaeth yn Byd Modern (20) (Semester 2) - VPR-2407: Anti-Semitism (20) (Semester 1) or
VPC-2407: Gwrth-Semitiaeth (20) (Semester 1)
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
60 credits from:
- QXE-3031: Welsh Writing in English (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3094: Realms of Magic (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3099: The English Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- QXE-3105: Reading Myth (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3107: EM Lit: Sex, Sects and Scandal (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3109: Victorian Networks (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3110: Neo-Victorian Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- Students may not take a dissertation in both English Literature and the other discipline of the Joint Honours program
Optional Modules
60 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 2)
- HPS-3003: Race democracy * pol ideology (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-3006: Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2) or
HAC-3006: Traethawd Hir (40) (Semester 1 + 2) - HPS-3008: Sociology of Religion (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-3011: Paradoxes of Self: Nietz..Jung (20) (Semester 1)
- HPS-3015: Serial Killers (20) (Semester 2)
- HTH-3154: Holy Wars 1095-1197 (20) (Semester 1)
- VPR-3205: Hinduism in the Modern World (20) (Semester 1)
- VPR-3302: Applied Ethics (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-3307: Tales of Might and Morality (20) (Semester 1)
- VPR-3404: Judaism in the Modern World (20) (Semester 2) or
VPC-3404: Iddewiaeth yn y Byd Modern (20) (Semester 2) - VPR-3407: Anti-Semitism (20) (Semester 1) or
VPC-3407: Gwrth - Semitiaeth (20) (Semester 1) - Students may choose whether to take the dissertation in Philosophy/Religion or their other subject