BA Creative Writing and Film and Television [WP83]
Academic Year 2024/2025
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint 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
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (60 Credits)
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1 Options
Choose one of the following
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
American Literature 1819-1925
Critical Practice
Literature And The Sea
Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Critical Practice
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Introduction to Poetry
Ancestral Voices
Contemporary Writing
Language Awareness for TESOL
Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Beginning the Novel
Year 2 Options
Joint Honours Film and TV Studies Students must take a minimum of 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following critical theory modules:
Year 2 Options
Joint Honours Film and TV Studies students must take a minimum of 20 credits and a maximum 40 credits (20 in each semester) from the following creative practice modules:
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following:
Year 2 Options
You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Film and TV Studies Students must take at least 20 credits from the following modules (please note that the Independent Research Project is worth 40 credits: 20 per semester):
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Film and TV Studies students may take up to 40 credits from the following modules:
Final Year Options
You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:
Final Year Options
You must choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following:
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
The Writing Project
Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
Writing Music
Writing Horror
Writing and Place
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
Literatures of Surveillance
Crisis Writing
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
The Writing Project
Poetry for today
Writing Crime Fiction
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Contact for this page:
Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, Parry-Williams Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3AJ
Telephone Department: +44 01970 622828 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021
Email: tfts@aber.ac.uk