BA Media and Creative Writing [P3W8]
Academic Year 2024/2025 September 2024 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020
Duration 3 years
Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence Scholarship;
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
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
Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
Ancestral Voices
Contemporary Writing
Critical Practice
Language Awareness for TESOL
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Introduction to Poetry
Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning the Novel
Year 2 Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 20 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following Critical Theory modules in their second year.
Year 2 Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits from the following creative practice modules:
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits from the available level 2 modules
Classical Drama and Myth
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Literary Modernisms
In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
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
Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Adventures with Poetry
Literary Geographies
Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
Place and Self
Literature since the '60s
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
Short stories: Grit and Candour
Writing Selves
Shaping Plots
Year 2 Options
Final Year Options
Choose at least 40 credits from the available level 3 modules
Reading Theory / Reading Text
Romantic Eroticism
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
The Writing Project
Writing Horror
Writing and Place
Writing Music
Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
Victorian Childhoods
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Haunting Texts
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Literatures of Surveillance
The Writing Project
Poetry for today
Crisis Writing
Writing Crime Fiction
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 20 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following Critical Theory modules (NB: the Independent Research Project is worth 40 credits, 20 in each semester):
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of the following Creative Practice modules:
Final Year Options
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