Study Schemes
BA Creative Writing and History [WV81]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
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
Students MUST take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2 Options
Students MUST take a further 40 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the SKILLS (semester two) and/or OPTION modules listed. Students may choose one skills module and an option module OR two option modules.
Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300-1500
Image Wars in Southeast Asia: Studying 20th Century Propaganda
Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250
Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
The Sound of History: the Civil Rights Movement in Post-War America
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
'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Adventures with Poetry
Year 2 Options
OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
Culture, Society and the Victorians
Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men
Wales under the Tudors
Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
Famine in Medieval England
The European Reformation
Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896
From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933
Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
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
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Literatures of Surveillance
Poetry for today
Writing Horror
Writing Music
Final Year Options
Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:
Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
Culture, Society and the Victorians
Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men
Wales under the Tudors
Concro'r Byd: Tŵf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
Famine in Medieval England
The European Reformation
Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896
From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933
Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
Department of English & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
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- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary