Course Content
During the Foundation Year, you will follow intensive language courses with professional tutors from the Welsh for Adults Centre, a centre with over 40 years experience of providing language learning courses. Learn more about Welsh literature, history and culture. You then have three years learning through lectures, seminars, tutorials and workshops. You will write essays, undertake various weekly exercises and tasks, reading and preparing for seminar discussions. Assessments vary from coursework to exams. At least half of your modules in your second year will be specially designed for students from a second language background, in order to develop specific skills. You will join first language students in other modules, and special tutorials will be arranged to support you. Additional language support is also provided in the third and fourth years.
After the Foundation Year you will have the opportunity to build on your experiences and open new doors: e.g. discussing the language in contexts relating to its history and present-day state, learning new critical skills and responding initially to literature. In the following two years, you will have a wide choice of modules: e.g. the Welsh novel; Welsh theatre; modern poetry and eisteddfod odes (awdlau); television dramas; Dafydd ap Gwilym; the Mabinogion - or why not study American Welsh culture and even ask "What is Literature?" Language modules range from historical to sociological, from the opportunity to learn Irish or Breton to modules that develop professional Welsh language skills in the workplace and also Welsh language skills for creative purposes. In the final year, you will have the opportunity to explore in more depth a topic of particular interest to you, and write a dissertation. Students have recently written dissertations on individuals such as Dafydd ap Gwilym, Caryl Lewis, Meic Stevens and Geraint Jarman, and on areas such as eco-criticism, gender and transgender, literature and slavery, attitudes to linguistic regeneration, and football in literature.
Modules for the current academic year
Module listings are for guide purposes only and are subject to change. Find out what our students are currently studying on the Welsh for Beginners BA (Hons) Modules page.
Course content is for guidance purposes only and may be subject to change.