Study Schemes
BA English Literature and Creative Writing [QW38]
Academic Year: 2013/2014Single Honours scheme - available from 2008/2009
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (60 Credits)
You must take the following modules
Semester 1 WR10020 Ways With Words: Getting Started In Creative Writing
Year 1 Options
You should choose other level 1 modules totalling 60 credits from the list of modules approved by the Faculty of Arts and subject to Faculty rules. These may include modules offered by the English Dept, listed below.
Semester 1 CL10120 Greek And Roman Epic And Drama
EN10120 Re-writing, Re-visioning Texts
EN11220 Introduction To American Literature And Culture
Semester 2 CL10320 History Of Greek And Roman Ideas
WR10120 Writer's Art: Transpositions
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (40 Credits)
You must take these modules
Semester 1 EN20120 Reading Theory/reading Text 1
Year 2 Options
You should choose at least 20 credits in each semester from the following:
Semester 1 EN20520 Medieval And Renaissance Writing
EN20720 Nineteenth Century Literature
Semester 2 EN20620 Restoration & Eighteenth Century Literature
EN20820 Twentieth Century British Literature
Year 2 Options
You should choose 20-credits from the following.
Year 2 Options
You may choose 20 credits from the following:
Semester 2 EN31120 Arthurian Literature; Medieval To Renaissance
EN33020 Shakespeare, Jonson And Company
EN33420 Demons, Degenerates And New Women: Fin De Siecle Fictions
EN37820 Forms Of Children's Narrative Prose
EN38420 Romantic Visions, Dangerous Worlds
EN38920 Other Worlds: Utopia To Lilliput
Final Year Core (60 Credits)
You must take these modules
Final Year Options
From the following list, you should choose one 30 credit EN module and one 30-credit WR module.
Semester 1 EN31430 Elizabethan Drama: Hieronimo To Hamlet
EN32830 The Years Between: Women's Fiction, 1918-1939
EN36330 Heroes+dragon Slayers:literature At End Of First Millennium
Semester 2 EN31530 Reimagining The World Wars: Contemporary Historical Fictions
EN31830 Haunting Texts: Victorian And Modern Ghost Stories
EN34030 Poetry But Not As We Know It-uk Poetry Since 70s-remapping
EN34730 Detective And Crime Fiction
EN39330 Twentieth Century American Literature
Available both years Electives
Over years 2 and 3, 20 credits of elective modules may be selected from those offered by English or other departments subject to timetable restraints and approval by the Director of UG Programmes
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary