Summary Course Outline

 ‘The creative writing programme at Aberystwyth is among the best in the United Kingdom.’ (David Morley, Professor of Creative Writing at Warwick University; author of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing)

 

First Year – A total of 120 credits to include:

• Ways with Words: Getting Started in Creative Writing (20 credits)
• Encountering Texts (20 credits)
• Ancestral Voices (20 credits)

plus 60 credits of modules from:

• Writer's Art: Transpositions (20 credits)
• Rewritings and Revisioning Text (20 credits)
• Contemporary Writing (20 credits)
• American Literature and Culture (20 credits)
• Greek and Roman Epic and Drama (20 credits)
• The Classical Tradition: A History of Greek and Roman Ideas (20 credits)
• Modules offered by other departments (20 credits)

 Second Year – A total of 120 credits to include:

• Writing Fiction and Poetry (20 credits)
• Reading Theory/Reading Text 1 (20 credits)
• Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Writing (20 credits)
• Twentieth-Century British Literature (20 credits)

plus

• One Writing option (20 credits)
• One English Literature option (20 credits)

Third Year – A total of 120 credits to include:

• Textual Interventions (30 credits)
• The Writing Project (30 credits)

plus

• One Writing Option (30 credits)
• One English Literature option (30 credits)

Creative Writing Options currently include:

• Writing Short Fictions
• Writing Selves
• Reading for Writers
• Writing and Place
• Painting Words
• Writing Lives
• Writing Science Fiction

(Additional options are currently being developed.  For full details of these and other departmental options see the Module Database)