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

Beginning Creative Writing Part 1

WR11020

20

Semester 1

Beginning Creative Writing Part 2

WR11120

20

Semester 2

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

IC17700

0

Semester 1

Literature And The Sea

WL11420

20

Semester 1

American Literature 1819-1925

EN11220

20

Semester 1

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL10120

20

Semester 1

Critical Practice

EN11300

0

Semester 1

Greek and Roman Epic and Drama

CL10120

20

Semester 2

Critical Practice

EN11320

20

Semester 2

Language Awareness for TESOL

IC13420

20

Semester 2

Introduction to Poetry

WL10420

20

Semester 2

Contemporary Writing

EN10520

20

Semester 2

Ancestral Voices

EN10220

20

Semester 2

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

IC17720

20

Semester 2

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

WL11920

20

Semester 2

Part 2 Rules

Year 2

Core (20 Credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Beginning the Novel

WR20220

20

Semester 1

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction

WR21120

20

Semester 1

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

IC27720

20

Semester 1

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

EN20120

20

Semester 1

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

EN23120

20

Semester 1

Classical Drama and Myth

CL20320

20

Semester 1

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

EN28720

20

Semester 1

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

WL20720

20

Semester 1

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

IC23420

20

Semester 1

Literary Modernisms

EN20920

20

Semester 1

Adventures with Poetry

WR22120

20

Semester 1

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN21220

20

Semester 2

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

EN21120

20

Semester 2

Shaping Plots

WR21720

20

Semester 2

Literary Geographies

EN21020

20

Semester 2

Literature since the '60s

EN22920

20

Semester 2

Place and Self

EN22120

20

Semester 2

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

IC27720

20

Semester 2

Short stories: Grit and Candour

WL20320

20

Semester 2

Writing Selves

WR20620

20

Semester 2

Final Year

Core (40 Credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

The Writing Project

WR30000

0

Semester 1

The Writing Project

WR30040

40

Semester 2

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

IC37820

20

Semester 1

Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing

WR32820

20

Semester 1

The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s

EN31320

20

Semester 1

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30120

20

Semester 1

Writing and Place

WR32120

20

Semester 1

Romantic Eroticism

EN30520

20

Semester 1

Writing Music

WR32620

20

Semester 1

Writing Horror

WR31920

20

Semester 1

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

WL30620

20

Semester 1

Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science

WR32720

20

Semester 1

Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English

EN30420

20

Semester 2

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

EN33620

20

Semester 2

Crisis Writing

WR31820

20

Semester 2

Victorian Childhoods

EN30320

20

Semester 2

Poetry for today

WR31220

20

Semester 2

Literatures of Surveillance

WL35320

20

Semester 2

Haunting Texts

EN30820

20

Semester 2

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

IC37820

20

Semester 2

Writing Crime Fiction

WR32420

20

Semester 2

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

IC33420

20

Semester 2

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