BA Creative Writing [W801]
- Academic Year
- 2025/2026
- Campus
- Aberystwyth
- Single Honours
- scheme - available from 2014/2015
- Duration (studying Full-Time)
- 3 years
- Award Eligiblity
- Standard Awards
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Module Name |
Module Code |
Credit Value |
Semester |
---|---|---|---|
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product |
0 |
Semester 1 |
|
Literature And The Sea |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
American Literature 1819-1925 |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Critical Practice |
0 |
Semester 1 |
|
Greek and Roman Epic and Drama |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Critical Practice |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Language Awareness for TESOL |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Introduction to Poetry |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Contemporary Writing |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Ancestral Voices |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now |
20 |
Semester 2 |
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (20 Credits)
Module Name |
Module Code |
Credit Value |
Semester |
---|---|---|---|
Beginning the Novel |
20 |
Semester 1 |
Module Name |
Module Code |
Credit Value |
Semester |
---|---|---|---|
Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1 |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Classical Drama and Myth |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780 |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Literary Modernisms |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Adventures with Poetry |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Shaping Plots |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Literary Geographies |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Literature since the '60s |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Place and Self |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1 |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Short stories: Grit and Candour |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Writing Selves |
20 |
Semester 2 |
Final Year
Core (40 Credits)
Module Name |
Module Code |
Credit Value |
Semester |
---|---|---|---|
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2 |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Reading Theory / Reading Text |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Writing and Place |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Romantic Eroticism |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Writing Music |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Writing Horror |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now |
20 |
Semester 1 |
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Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science |
20 |
Semester 1 |
|
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s) |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Crisis Writing |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Victorian Childhoods |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Poetry for today |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Literatures of Surveillance |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Haunting Texts |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2 |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
Writing Crime Fiction |
20 |
Semester 2 |
|
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies |
20 |
Semester 2 |
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