Study Schemes

BA  Creative Writing and Spanish [WR84]

Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015 (Last intake year is 2024/2025)

Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
WR11020

Beginning Creative Writing Part 1

Semester 2
WR11120

Beginning Creative Writing Part 2

Year 1  Timetable Core/Student Option

SPANISH ADVANCED: you must take:

Semester 1
SP11900

Spanish Language (Non-Beginners)

Semester 2
SP11940

Spanish Language (Non-Beginners)

Year 1  Timetable Core/Student Option

SPANISH BEGINNERS: you must take:

Semester 1
SP11700

Spanish Language (Beginners)

Semester 2
SP11740

Spanish Language (Beginners)

Year 1  Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 1
EN11220

American Literature 1819-1925

EN11300

Critical Practice

IC17700

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN11320

Critical Practice

EN19920

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

IC17720

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WL10820

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

WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

Year 1  Options

Choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1
EL10000

Study and Research Skills in Modern Languages

EL10500

Introduction to European Film

EL10800

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

SP11120

Study and Research Skills in Spanish and Latin American Studies

SP16100

Hispanic Civilization

Semester 2
EL10020

Study and Research Skills in Modern Languages

EL10520

Introduction to European Film

EL10820

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

SP16120

Hispanic Civilization

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
SP22100

Spanish Language (Intermediate)

Semester 2
SP22140

Spanish Language (Intermediate)

Year 2  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Year 2  Options

Choose 20 credits of the following SP or EL modules

Semester 1
SP26120

Spanish American Cinema

Semester 2
SP20620

The Spanish Avant-Garde

SP25220

Spanish Cinema ii: New Tendencies

SP27020

Cuban Cinema of the Revolution: Crisis, National Identity and the Critique of Contemporary Society

Year 2  Options

Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following:

Semester 1
IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 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
IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20320

Short stories: Grit and Candour

WR20620

Writing Selves

Year 2  Options

You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:

Semester 1
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

Semester 2
EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN22120

Place and Self

WL23120

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

Year 3  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
ENS0000

Abroad Year Credits

Semester 2
ENS0060

Abroad Year Credits

Year 3  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
SPS0000

Year Abroad Assessment

Semester 2
SPS0060

Year Abroad Assessment

Final Year  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
SP33400

Spanish Language (Advanced)

Semester 2
SP33440

Spanish Language (Advanced)

Final Year  Options

Choose 20 credits of the following SP or EL modules:

Semester 1
SP35120

Reading Late 19th Century Literature

Semester 2
SP35220

Spanish Cinema ii: New Tendencies

SP37020

Cuban Cinema of the Revolution: Crisis, National Identity and the Critique of Contemporary Society

Final Year  Options

You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:

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

Final Year  Options

Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following:

Semester 1
IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

WR31820

Crisis Writing

WR32120

Writing and Place

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

Semester 2
EN38120

Post-Colonial African Literature in English

IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

WR31920

Writing Horror

WR32620

Writing Music

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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