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
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.
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
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
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
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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Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary