BA Creative Writing and History [WV81]
Academic Year 2024/2025
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020
Duration 3 years
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 (20 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
Students MUST take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800
Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800
The Modern World, 1789 to the present
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Beginning the Novel
Year 2 Options
Students MUST take a further 40 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the SKILLS (semester two) and/or OPTION modules listed. Students may choose one skills module and an option module OR two option modules.
Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250
Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America
Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits from the available level 2 modules
In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
Classical Drama and Myth
A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
Literary Modernisms
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Adventures with Poetry
Writing Selves
Literary Geographies
Place and Self
Literature since the '60s
Short stories: Grit and Candour
Shaping Plots
Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
Year 2 Options
OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
Rhyfel Cartref America
Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain
Science, Religion and Magic
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850
The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
Germany since 1945
Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c.1400 to the present)
Final Year Options
Choose at least 40 credits from the available level 3 modules
Reading Theory / Reading Text
The Writing Project
Romantic Eroticism
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
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
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Literatures of Surveillance
Crisis Writing
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Haunting Texts
The Writing Project
Poetry for today
Writing Crime Fiction
Victorian Childhoods
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Final Year Options
Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
Science, Religion and Magic
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Rhyfel Cartref America
Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze
Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain
Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c. 1400 to the present)
Germany since 1945
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300
Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850
Contact for this page:
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