BA
Photography / Creative Writing
[WW68]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021 (Last intake year is 2024/2025)
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
WR11020Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Semester 2
WR11120Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1
Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1
Options
Choose one of the following
Semester 1
EN11220American Literature 1819-1925
IC17700Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
WL10120Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
WL10820We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
Semester 2
EN19920Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
IC13420Language Awareness for TESOL
IC17720Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
WL11920Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
EN20120Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
AR24320Photographic Practice III: Constructed Images
Semester 2
AR24420Photographic Practice IV: Documentary Storytelling
Year 2
Options
Must take 20 credits
Year 2
Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following:
Semester 1
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
WL20720A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
WR21120Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Semester 2
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
WL20320Short stories: Grit and Candour
Year 2
Options
You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:
Semester 1
EN28720Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
IC23420TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
WL23120'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
Semester 2
EN21120Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
EN21220Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
Final Year
Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
AR32130Photography 5 - Photo Directed Practice
Semester 2
AR30130Exhibition 1: Graduation Show
Final Year
Options
You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:
Semester 1
EN30120Reading Theory / Reading Text
Semester 2
EN30420Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
EN31320The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
Final Year
Options
You must choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following:
Semester 1
EN33620Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
IC37820Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
WL30100Independent Research Project
Semester 2
IC33420TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
IC37820Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
WL30140Independent Research Project
WL30620Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary