Study Schemes
BA Creative Writing and History [WV81]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
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 (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
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
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
Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Year 1 Options
Students MUST take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning the Novel
Year 2 Options
Students MUST take a further 40 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the SKILLS (semester two) and/or OPTION modules listed. Students may choose one skills module and an option module OR two option modules.
Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America
Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250
Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits from the available level 2 modules
Classical Drama and Myth
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Literary Modernisms
In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Adventures with Poetry
Literary Geographies
Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
Place and Self
Literature since the '60s
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
Short stories: Grit and Candour
Writing Selves
Shaping Plots
Year 2 Options
OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Rhyfel Cartref America
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze
Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Science, Religion and Magic
Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850
The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300
Germany since 1945
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c.1400 to the present)
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
Final Year Options
Choose at least 40 credits from the available level 3 modules
Reading Theory / Reading Text
Romantic Eroticism
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
The Writing Project
Writing Horror
Writing and Place
Writing Music
Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
Victorian Childhoods
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Haunting Texts
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Literatures of Surveillance
The Writing Project
Poetry for today
Crisis Writing
Writing Crime Fiction
Final Year Options
Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:
Rhyfel Cartref America
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze
Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain
Science, Religion and Magic
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850
The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300
Germany since 1945
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c. 1400 to the present)
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
Department of English & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
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Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary