BA Creative Writing and Modern Languages [WR90]

Blwyddyn Academaidd 2026/2027 Dechrau Medi 2026

Campws Aberystwyth

Anrhydedd Cyfun ar gael o 2025/2026

Hyd 4 blynedd

Yn gymwys am wobrau
Ysgoloriaeth Rhagoriaeth Excellence Scholarship;

Gwobrau safonol Prifysgol Aberystwyth

Ysgoloriaethau Mynediad / Gwobr Teilyngdod
Bwrsariaeth Chwaraeon
Bwrsariaeth Cerddoriaeth
Ysgoloriaeth Rhagoriaeth Ryngwladol
Bwrsariaethau Llety
Bwrsariaethau Aberystwyth
Bwrsariaethau Gadael Gofal

Rheolau Rhan 1

Blwyddyn 1 Craidd (40 Craidd)

Modiwl(au) gorfodol.

Semester 1

WR11020

Beginning Creative Writing

Semester 2

WR10220

Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing

Blwyddyn 1 Opsiynau

Choose one of the following

Semester 1

EN11220

American Literature 1800-2000

EN11300

Critical Practice

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

Semester 2

EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN11320

Critical Practice

EN19920

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WL10820

We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present

Blwyddyn 1 Opsiynau

PATHWAY A: Students taking a language at NON-BEGINNERS level MUST choose 40 credits of NON-BEGINNERS language modules:

Semester 1

FR11900

French Language (Non-Beginners)

GE11900

German Language (Non-Beginners)

SP11900

Spanish Language (Non-Beginners)

Semester 2

FR11940

French Language (Non-Beginners)

GE11940

German Language (Non-Beginners)

SP11940

Spanish Language (Non-Beginners)

Blwyddyn 1 Opsiynau

PATHWAY B: Students taking a language at BEGINNERS level MUST choose 40 credits of BEGINNERS language modules:

Semester 1

FR11700

French Language (Beginners)

GE11700

German Language (Beginners)

IT11700

Italian Language (Beginners)

SP11700

Spanish Language (Beginners)

Semester 2

FR11740

French Language (Beginners)

GE11740

German Language (Beginners)

IT11740

Italian Language (Beginners)

SP11740

Spanish Language (Beginners)

Blwyddyn 1 Opsiynau

All students MUST choose an additional 20 credits of the following language pathway specific, EL or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1

EL10000

Study and Research Skills in Modern Languages

EL10500

Introduction to European Film

EL10800

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

FR11100

Introduction to French Studies

GE10920

Exploring German Cultural Identity

SP16100

Hispanic Civilization

Semester 2

EL10020

Study and Research Skills in Modern Languages

EL10520

Introduction to European Film

EL10820

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

FR11120

Introduction to French Studies

SP16120

Hispanic Civilization

Rheolau Rhan 2

Blwyddyn 2 Craidd (20 Craidd)

Modiwl(au) gorfodol.

Semester 1

EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Blwyddyn 2 Opsiynau

PATHWAY A and B: Choose 40 credits of the following language pathway specific modules. Students must continue with the language pathway followed in Level 1.

Semester 1

FR22100

French Language (Intermediate)

GE22100

German Language (Intermediate)

IT22100

Italian Language (Intermediate)

SP22100

Spanish Language (Intermediate)

Semester 2

FR22140

French Language (Intermediate)

GE22140

German Language (Intermediate)

IT22140

Italian Language (Intermediate)

SP22140

Spanish Language (Intermediate)

Blwyddyn 2 Opsiynau

FRENCH you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following FR or EL modules

Semester 1

FR27320

Voyage Et Litterature En France / Travel and Literature in France

Semester 2

EL29920

Introduction to Historical Linguistics: Languages in Europe

FR27220

Litterature fantastique, 18e-20e siecles / Fantastic literature, 18th-20th centuries

FR27820

History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema

Blwyddyn 2 Opsiynau

Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following:

Semester 1

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

WR21120

Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction

WR21720

Shaping Plots

WR22120

Adventures with Poetry

Semester 2

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20320

Short stories: Grit and Candour

WR20620

Writing Selves

Blwyddyn 2 Opsiynau

GERMAN you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following GR or EL modules

Semester 1

GE27220

German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK

GE29120

The Language of German Drama

Semester 2

EL29920

Introduction to Historical Linguistics: Languages in Europe

GE20420

Contemporary German Politics

Blwyddyn 2 Opsiynau

ITALIAN you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following IT or EL modules

Semester 2

EL29920

Introduction to Historical Linguistics: Languages in Europe

IT21020

Rethinking late 20th Century Italy

Blwyddyn 2 Opsiynau

You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:

Semester 1

EN20920

Literary Modernisms

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

Semester 2

EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

EN22120

Place and Self

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

WL23120

'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production

Blwyddyn 2 Opsiynau

SPANISH you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following SP or EL modules

Semester 1

SP20620

The Spanish Avant-Garde

Semester 2

EL29920

Introduction to Historical Linguistics: Languages in Europe

SP27020

Cuban Cinema of the Revolution: Crisis, National Identity and the Critique of Contemporary Society

Blwyddyn 3 Craidd (60 Craidd)

You must take the following modules during your year abroad

Modiwl(au) gorfodol.

Semester 1

ENS0000

Abroad Year Credits

Semester 2

ENS0060

Abroad Year Credits

Blwyddyn 3 Craidd (60 Craidd)

During your Year Abroad your registration will be:

Modiwl(au) gorfodol.

Semester 1

ELS0000

Year Abroad Assessment

Semester 2

ELS0060

Year Abroad Assessment

Blwyddyn Olaf Opsiynau

PATHWAY A and B: Choose 40 credits of the following language pathway specific modules. Students must continue with the language pathway followed in Level 2.

Semester 1

FR33400

French Language (Advanced)

GE33400

German Language (Advanced)

IT33400

Italian Language (Advanced)

SP33400

Spanish Language (Advanced)

Semester 2

FR33440

French Language (Advanced)

GE33440

German Language (Advanced)

IT33440

Italian Language (Advanced)

SP33440

Spanish Language (Advanced)

Blwyddyn Olaf Opsiynau

FRENCH you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following FR or EL modules

Semester 1

FR37320

Voyage Et Litterature En France / Travel and Literature in France

Semester 2

EL39920

Introduction to Historical Linguistics: Languages in Europe

FR37220

Litterature fantastique, 18e-20e siecles / Fantastic literature, 18th-20th centuries

FR37820

History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema

Blwyddyn Olaf Opsiynau

GERMAN you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following GR or EL modules

Semester 1

GE37220

German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK

GE39120

The Language of German Drama

Semester 2

EL39920

Introduction to Historical Linguistics: Languages in Europe

GE30320

Contemporary German Politics

Blwyddyn Olaf Opsiynau

ITALIAN you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following IT or EL modules

Semester 2

EL39920

Introduction to Historical Linguistics: Languages in Europe

IT31020

Rethinking late 20th Century Italy

Blwyddyn Olaf Opsiynau

You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:

Semester 1

EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30420

Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English

Semester 2

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN31320

The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

Blwyddyn Olaf Opsiynau

SPANISH you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following SP or EL modules

Semester 1

SP35120

Reading Late 19th Century Literature

Semester 2

EL39920

Introduction to Historical Linguistics: Languages in Europe

SP37020

Cuban Cinema of the Revolution: Crisis, National Identity and the Critique of Contemporary Society

Blwyddyn Olaf Opsiynau

Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following:

Semester 1

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

WR31220

Poetry for today

WR31820

Crisis Writing

WR32120

Writing and Place

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

Semester 2

EN38120

Post-Colonial African Literature in English

IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

WR31920

Writing Horror

WR32820

Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing