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

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (60 Credits)

You must take the following modules

Semester 1
EN10020

Encountering Texts

WR10020

Ways With Words: Getting Started In Creative Writing

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

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

EN10520

Contemporary Writing

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

WR20120

Writing Fiction And Poetry

Semester 2

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.

Semester 2
WR30320

Writing Short Stories

WR30620

Writing Selves

WR31120

Painting Words

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

Semester 1
WR30230

Textual Interventions

WR30700

The Writing Project

Semester 2
WR30730

The Writing Project

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

WR30930

Writing And Place

WR31330

Writing Lives

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