BA
English Literature and Creative Writing
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Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2008/2009
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
WR11020Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Year 1
Options
Students must take at least 40 credits and up to 80 credits from the following modules:
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
WR11120Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1
Electives
Students may register up to 40 credits from other departments
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
EN20120Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2
Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits
Semester 1
IC23420TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
Semester 2
EN21120Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
EN21220Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
Year 2
Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits
Semester 1
EN23120In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
EN28720Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
Year 2
Options
Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits
Semester 1
WL20720A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
WR21120Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Semester 2
WL20320Short stories: Grit and Candour
Final Year
Timetable Core/Student Option
Choose 40 credits
Final Year
Options
Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits
Semester 1
EN30120Reading Theory / Reading Text
EN31320The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
WL30620Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Semester 2
EN30420Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Final Year
Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits
Semester 1
IC37820Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
WR32720Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
WR32820Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
Semester 2
IC33420TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
IC37820Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Available both years
Electives
Over years 2 and 3, up to 40 credits of elective modules may be selected from those offered by other departments subject to timetable restraints and approval by the department
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary