Study Schemes

BA  Media and Creative Writing [P3W8]

Academic Year: 2024/2025Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
WR11020

Beginning Creative Writing Part 1

Semester 2
WR11120

Beginning Creative Writing Part 2

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
FM10620

Studying Media

Semester 2
FM10720

Studying Communication

Year 1  Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 1
EN11220

American Literature 1819-1925

EN11300

Critical Practice

IC17700

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
CL10120

Greek and Roman Epic and Drama

EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN10520

Contemporary Writing

EN11320

Critical Practice

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

IC17720

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

Year 1  Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 2
FM10220

Studying Television

FM11520

Making Short Films 1

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
WR20220

Beginning the Novel

Year 2  Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 20 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following Critical Theory modules in their second year.

Semester 1
FM22320

Youth Cultures

FM22620

Media, Politics and Power

Semester 2
FM21920

Advertising

FM25520

Digital Culture

Year 2  Options

Choose at least 20 credits from the available level 2 modules

Semester 1
CL20320

Classical Drama and Myth

EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

EN20920

Literary Modernisms

EN23120

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

WR21120

Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction

WR22120

Adventures with Poetry

Semester 2
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN22120

Place and Self

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20320

Short stories: Grit and Candour

WR20620

Writing Selves

WR21720

Shaping Plots

Year 2  Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits from the following creative practice modules:

Semester 1
FM26520

Creative Documentary

Semester 2
FM25420

Creative Studio

Year 2  Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may choose from these Film and Television Studies modules:

Semester 1
FM20120

LGBT Film & Television

FM20420

The Story of Television

FM23820

Work in the Film & Television Industries

Semester 2
FM21520

Film Stardom and Celebrity

FM24420

Art Cinema

Final Year  Options

Choose at least 40 credits from the available level 3 modules

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

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

WR30000

The Writing Project

WR31920

Writing Horror

WR32120

Writing and Place

WR32620

Writing Music

WR32720

Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science

WR32820

Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing

Semester 2
EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30420

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

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

WR30040

The Writing Project

WR31220

Poetry for today

WR31820

Crisis Writing

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

Final Year  Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 20 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following Critical Theory modules (NB: the Independent Research Project is worth 40 credits, 20 in each semester):

Semester 1
FM36000

Independent Research Project

FM38320

Gender and the Media

FM38420

Videogame Theories

Semester 2
FM31920

Advertising

FM34120

Media Semiotics

FM36040

Independent Research Project

FM36720

Media Law and Regulation

Final Year  Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of the following Creative Practice modules:

Semester 1
FM33500

Experimental Media Production

FM33700

Documentary Production

Semester 2
FM33540

Experimental Media Production

FM33740

Documentary Production

Final Year  Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of these Film and TV options:

Semester 1
FM31020

Screening the Brave New World: television in 20th-century Britain

FM34520

Experimental Cinema

FM38220

Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences

Semester 2
FM30020

Contemporary Film and the Break-Up of Britain

FM30320

Contemporary TV

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary