Study Schemes
BA Media and Creative Writing [P3W8]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Options
Choose one of the following
American Literature 1819-1925
Critical Practice
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
Literature And The Sea
Ancestral Voices
Critical Practice
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
Language Awareness for TESOL
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Introduction to Poetry
We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Year 1 Options
Students may choose an option from the following Film and Television modules, or from another scheme or department
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2 Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 20 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following Critical Theory modules
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits from the available level 2 modules
Literary Geographies
Literature since the '60s
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Adventures with Poetry
Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
Place and Self
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
Short stories: Grit and Candour
'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
Writing Selves
Year 2 Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits from the following creative practice modules:
Year 2 Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may choose from these Film and Television Studies modules:
Final Year Options
Choose at least 40 credits from the available level 3 modules
Reading Theory / Reading Text
Victorian Childhoods
Haunting Texts
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Crisis Writing
Writing and Place
Writing Crime Fiction
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
Post-Colonial African Literature in English
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Literatures of Surveillance
Writing Horror
Writing Music
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 20 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following Critical Theory modules (NB: the Independent Research Project is worth 40 credits, 20 in each semester):
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of the following Creative Practice modules:
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of these Film and Television options:
Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, Parry-Williams Building, Aberystwyth, SY23 3AJ
Tel: Department: +44 (0) 1970 621537 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021 Email: tfts@aber.ac.uk
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary