BA
Creative Writing and Drama and Theatre
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Academic Year: 2024/2025Joint Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
WR11020Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Semester 2
WR11120Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1
Timetable Core/Student Option
Students must take one of the following modules:
Semester 2
TP11420Site-Specific Performance Project
Year 1
Options
Choose one of the following
Semester 1
EN11220American Literature 1819-1925
IC17700Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
WL10120Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
Semester 2
CL10120Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
IC13420Language Awareness for TESOL
IC17720Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
WL11920Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Year 1
Options
Students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, choose one of the following modules:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2
Options
Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 40 credits and, subject to the demands of their other scheme, may take up to 80 credits of TP modules in their 2nd year:
Semester 1
TP21220Acting: Process and Performance
Semester 2
TP20820Theatre and Contemporary Society
Year 2
Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following:
Semester 1
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
WL20720A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
WR21120Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Semester 2
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
WL20320Short stories: Grit and Candour
Year 2
Options
You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:
Semester 1
EN20120Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
EN23120In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
EN28720Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
IC23420TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
Semester 2
EN21120Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
EN21220Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
Final Year
Options
Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 20 credits from the following modules:
Semester 2
TP33420Performance and Architecture
TP39020Musical Theatre Dramaturgies
Final Year
Options
Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students may take up to 40 credits from the following modules:
Semester 1
TP35520Ensemble Performance Project
TP36000Independent Research Project
Semester 2
TP36040Independent Research Project
Final Year
Options
You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:
Semester 1
EN30120Reading Theory / Reading Text
EN31320The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
Semester 2
EN30420Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Final Year
Options
You must choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following:
Semester 1
IC37820Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
WL30620Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
WR32720Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
WR32820Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
Semester 2
EN33620Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
IC33420TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
IC37820Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
