Study Schemes
BA Creative Writing and Modern Languages [WR90]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2025/2026
Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 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 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
PATHWAY A: Students taking a language at NON-BEGINNERS level MUST choose 40 credits of NON-BEGINNERS language modules:
Year 1 Options
PATHWAY B: Students taking a language at BEGINNERS level MUST choose 40 credits of BEGINNERS language modules:
Year 1 Options
All students MUST choose an additional 20 credits of the following language pathway specific, EL or other Level 1 content modules:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2 Options
PATHWAY A and B: Choose 40 credits of the following language pathway specific modules. Students must continue with the language pathway followed in Level 1.
Year 2 Options
FRENCH you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following FR or EL modules
Gender in Modern and Contemporary French Culture
Self-Writing, 18th-21st Centuries
History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following:
Year 2 Options
GERMAN you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following GR or EL modules
Die Wende: Representations of Division and Unification in German Film
German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
Year 2 Options
You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:
Year 2 Options
ITALIAN you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following IT or EL modules
Rethinking late 20th Century Italy
Year 2 Options
SPANISH you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following SP or EL modules
Final Year Options
PATHWAY A and B: Choose 40 credits of the following language pathway specific modules. Students must continue with the language pathway followed in Level 2.
Final Year Options
FRENCH you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following FR or EL modules
Gender in Modern and Contemporary French Culture
Self-writing, 18th-21st Centuries
History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
Final Year Options
GERMAN you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following GR or EL modules
Die Wende: Representations of Division and Unification in German Film
German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
Final Year Options
ITALIAN you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following IT or EL modules
Rethinking late 20th Century Italy
Final Year Options
SPANISH you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following SP or EL modules
Reading Late 19th Century Literature
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:
Final Year Options
Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following:
Department of English & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
Tel: Department: +44(0) 1970 621537 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021 Fax: (01970) 622530 Email: english@aber.ac.uk Facebook
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary