Study Schemes

BA  English Literature and Creative Writing [QW38]

Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2008/2009

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN11300

Critical Practice

WR11020

Beginning Creative Writing Part 1

Semester 2
EN11320

Critical Practice

Year 1  Options

Students must take at least 40 credits and up to 80 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
EN11220

American Literature 1819-1925

IC17700

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL10820

We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN19920

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

IC17720

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

WR11120

Beginning Creative Writing Part 2

Year 1  Electives

Students may register up to 40 credits from other departments

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Year 2  Options

Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits

Semester 1
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

Semester 2
EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

Year 2  Options

Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits

Semester 1
EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

WL23120

'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production

Semester 2
EN22120

Place and Self

Year 2  Options

Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits

Semester 1
WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

WR21120

Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction

WR22120

Adventures with Poetry

Semester 2
WL20320

Short stories: Grit and Candour

WR20620

Writing Selves

WR21720

Shaping Plots

Final Year  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
WL30100

Independent Research Project

Semester 2
WL30140

Independent Research Project

Final Year  Options

Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits

Semester 1
EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

Semester 2
EN30420

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

EN31320

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

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

Final Year  Options

Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits

Semester 1
IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WR31820

Crisis Writing

WR32120

Writing and Place

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

Semester 2
IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WR31220

Poetry for today

WR31920

Writing Horror

WR32620

Writing Music

Available both years  Electives

Over years 2 and 3, up to 40 credits of elective modules may be selected from those offered by other departments subject to timetable restraints and approval by the department

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary