BA Creative Writing and Spanish [WR84]

Academic Year 2024/2025

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015

Duration 4 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)

Semester 1
WR11020

Beginning Creative Writing Part 1

Semester 2
WR11120

Beginning Creative Writing Part 2

Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option

SPANISH BEGINNERS: you must take:

Semester 1
SP10820

Beginners Spanish 1

Semester 2
SP11020

Beginners Spanish 2

Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option

SPANISH ADVANCED: you must take:

Semester 1
SP19900

Spanish Language Advanced

Semester 2
SP19930

Spanish Language Advanced

Year 1 Options

SPANISH ADVANCED: you must take SP10610 and must also choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules from Departments within the Institute of Arts and Humanities:

Semester 1
EL10500

Introduction to European Film

EL10800

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

SP11120

Study and Research Skills in Spanish and Latin American Studies

EL10700

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

Semester 2
EL10820

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

EL10720

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

SP10610

Hispanic Civilization

EL10520

Introduction to European Film

Year 1 Options

SPANISH BEGINNERS: you must choose 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules from Departments within the Institute of Arts and Humanities:

Semester 1
EL10500

Introduction to European Film

EL10800

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

SP11120

Study and Research Skills in Spanish and Latin American Studies

EL10700

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

Semester 2
EL10820

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

EL10720

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

EL10520

Introduction to European Film

Year 1 Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 1
IC17700

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

EN11220

American Literature 1819-1925

EN11300

Critical Practice

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

EN11320

Critical Practice

IC17720

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN10520

Contemporary Writing

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

CL10120

Greek and Roman Epic and Drama

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (30 Credits)

Semester 1
SP20100

Spanish Language

Semester 2
SP20130

Spanish Language

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Semester 1
WR20220

Beginning the Novel

Year 2 Options

Choose 30 credits of the following SP or EL modules but note that you cannot take both SP20010 and SP20310:

Semester 1
EL20700

Brazilian / Portuguese Language II

SP26120

Spanish American Cinema

EL20500

Extended Essay Module

Semester 2
SP20010

The Spanish Avant-Garde

SP20310

Language of Business and Current Affairs 1

EL20720

Brazilian / Portuguese Language II

EL20510

Extended Essay Module

SP25020

Seeing Spain Through Cinema

SP27020

Cuban Cinema of the Revolution: Crisis, National Identity and the Critique of Contemporary Society

Year 2 Options

Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following:

Semester 1
WR22120

Adventures with Poetry

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

WR21120

Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

Semester 2
WR20620

Writing Selves

WL20320

Short stories: Grit and Candour

WR21720

Shaping Plots

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

Year 2 Options

You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:

Semester 1
EN23120

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

CL20320

Classical Drama and Myth

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

EN20920

Literary Modernisms

EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Semester 2
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN22120

Place and Self

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

Year 3 Core (60 Credits)

You must take the following modules during your year abroad

Semester 1
ENS0000

Abroad Year Credits

Semester 2
ENS0060

Abroad Year Credits

Year 3 Core (60 Credits)

During your Year Abroad your registration will be:

Semester 1
SPS0000

Year Abroad Assessment

Semester 2
SPS0060

Year Abroad Assessment

Final Year Core (30 Credits)

Semester 1
SP30100

Spanish Language

Semester 2
SP30130

Spanish Language

Final Year Options

Choose 30 credits of the following SP or EL modules:

Semester 1
EL30100

Dissertation

EL30700

Brazilian / Portuguese Language III

EL30500

Extended Essay Module

SP35120

Reading Late 19th Century Literature

Semester 2
SP37020

Cuban Cinema of the Revolution: Crisis, National Identity and the Critique of Contemporary Society

EL30120

Dissertation

SP35020

Seeing Spain Through Cinema

EL30510

Extended Essay Module

SP39910

Traduccion al espa?ol

EL30720

Brazilian / Portuguese Language III

Final Year Options

You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:

Semester 1
EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30520

Romantic Eroticism

EN31320

The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s

Semester 2
EN30420

Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

Final Year Options

Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following:

Semester 1
IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WR30000

The Writing Project

WR32720

Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science

WR32620

Writing Music

WR31920

Writing Horror

WR32120

Writing and Place

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

WR32820

Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing

Semester 2
WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

WR31820

Crisis Writing

IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

WR30040

The Writing Project

WR31220

Poetry for today

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

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