Study Schemes

BA Media and Creative Writing [P3W8]

Academic Year: 2023/2024Joint 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

Beginning Creative Writing Part 1

Semester 2

Beginning Creative Writing Part 2

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Studying Media

Semester 2

Studying Communication

Year 1 Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 1

American Literature 1819-1925

Critical Practice

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2

Greek and Roman Epic and Drama

Ancestral Voices

Contemporary Writing

Critical Practice

Language Awareness for TESOL

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

Introduction to Poetry

Year 1 Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 2

Studying Television

Making Short Films 1

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Beginning the Novel

Year 2 Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 40 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following FM modules in their second year.

Semester 1

Television Genre

Youth Cultures

Media, Politics and Power

Creative Documentary

Semester 2

LGBT Screens

Stardom and Celebrity

Advertising

Creative Studio

Digital Culture

Year 2 Options

Choose at least 20 credits from the available level 2 modules

Semester 1

Classical Drama and Myth

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Literary Modernisms

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

Contemporary Queer Fiction

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction

Adventures with Poetry

Semester 2

Literary Geographies

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

Place and Self

Literature since the '60s

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

Short stories: Grit and Candour

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

Writing Selves

Shaping Plots

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 40 credits and, subject to the deamds of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following FM modules in their third year.

Semester 1

Experimental Media Production

Experimental Cinema

Independent Research Project

Gender and the Media

Videogame Theories

Semester 2

Contemporary TV Drama

Experimental Media Production

Media Semiotics

Media Law

Final Year Options

Choose at least 40 credits from the available level 3 modules

Semester 1

Reading Theory / Reading Text

Romantic Eroticism

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

Literatures of Surveillance

The Writing Project

Writing Horror

Writing and Place

Writing Music

Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing

Semester 2

Victorian Childhoods

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

Haunting Texts

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

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

The Writing Project

Poetry for today

Crisis Writing

Writing Crime Fiction

Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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