BA Creative Writing [W801]
Academic Year 2024/2025 September 2024 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Single Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015
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
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1 Options
Students must take at least 40 credits and up to 80 credits from 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 Electives
Students may register up to 40 credits from other departments.
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning the Novel
Year 2 Options
Students must choose at least 60 credits and a maximum of 100 credits from the following:
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 Electives
Students may register for up to 40 credits from other departments
Final Year Core (40 Credits)
Final Year Options
Students must choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits from the following:
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
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
Poetry for today
Crisis Writing
Writing Crime Fiction
Final Year Electives
Students may register for up to 40 credits from other departments
English and Creative Writing,Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
Telephone Department: +44 01970 622534 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021
Email: english@aber.ac.uk