Program Description
The combined degree of English Studies and Climate Change at Aberystwyth University provides a thorough and critical understanding of the ideological debates that shape the ways we read and write, challenge perceptions of the places we read and write about, and interrogate who we are. Students will encounter texts that explore and represent climate change, that evaluate the climate challenge and its political, economic, social, and ecological impacts. By raising provocative questions about human responses to climate change (which invariably involve the written or the spoken word) this course will equip students with the skills and knowledge to analyse diverse perspectives on a global challenge. They will also develop their own writing across a wide range of styles (critical, genre-fiction, poetic, non-fiction, and so on) informed by an understanding of the science and politics underpinning the climate crisis.
