Modules

In the first year, through reading key texts you will become familiar with the aspects that underpin philosophy and religion, even if you have not studied those areas before, from Philosophy of Religion, Ethics and Logic, to Discourse and 'the Death of God'. You will also read poetry, prose and drama, and have an opportunity to take part in creative writing workshops, if you wish.

In the second and third years, a wide variety of modules are offered: e.g., the novel from Daniel Owen to Dewi Prysor; Welsh language theatre from Saunders Lewis to Aled Jones Williams', modern poetry and eisteddfod odes; Meic Povey’s television dramas; Dafydd ap Gwilym; the Mabinogion. Or why not study the Welsh culture of the Welsh Americans, or even ask "What is Literature?" (the 'Philosophy and Literature' module is a bridge between the two disciplines). There are modules on the great thinkers of the western tradition, as well as those comparing western and eastern thought, and there is a wide range of Welsh modules covering subjects as diverse as Buddhism, Religious Education, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, or the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

The Independent Study and Dissertation modules give you the opportunity to explore in more depth a topic of particular interest to you, whether a single author or writer such as Caryl Lewis, Geraint Jarman or Nietzsche, or a subject such as ecocriticism, gender and transgender, literature and slavery, approaches to language regeneration, etc.