BA Photography / Creative Writing [WW68]
Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021
Last intake year is 2024/2025
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 (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Photography Begins
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
Ancestral Voices
Critical Practice
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
Language Awareness for TESOL
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Introduction to Poetry
We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2 Core (40 Credits)
Joint Honours Photography students must take:
Compulsory module(s).
Photographic Practice III: Constructed Images
Photographic Practice IV: Documentary Storytelling
Year 2 Options
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following:
Year 2 Options
Final Year Core (60 Credits)
Joint Honours Photography students must take:
Compulsory module(s).
Photography 5 - Photo Directed Practice
Exhibition 1: Graduation Show
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:
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Independent Research Project
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Crisis Writing
Writing and Place
Writing Crime Fiction
Post-Colonial African Literature in English
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Independent Research Project
Literatures of Surveillance
Writing Horror
Writing Music
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