Study Schemes

BA English Literature and Creative Writing [QW3F]

Academic Year: 2024/2025Single Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020

Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (100 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Information in a Post-Truth World

How to be a Student 1

Introduction to Humanities

Semester 2

How to be a Student 2

Representing the Other: Cultures and Clashes

Year 1 Options

Semester 2

Understanding Change - Environment, People, Places

The "Othered" Migrant: Social Science Perspectives

Year 2 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Critical Practice

Beginning Creative Writing Part 1

Semester 2

Critical Practice

Year 2 Options

Students must take at least 40 credits and up to 80 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1

American Literature 1819-1925

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2

Greek and Roman Epic and Drama

Ancestral Voices

Contemporary Writing

Language Awareness for TESOL

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

Introduction to Poetry

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

Beginning Creative Writing Part 2

Year 2 Electives

Students may register up to 40 credits from other departments

Part 2 Rules

Year 3 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Year 3 Options

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

Semester 1

Literary Modernisms

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

Semester 2

Literary Geographies

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

Literature since the '60s

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

Year 3 Options

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

Semester 1

Classical Drama and Myth

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

Semester 2

Place and Self

Year 3 Options

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

Semester 1

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

Beginning the Novel

Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction

Adventures with Poetry

Semester 2

Short stories: Grit and Candour

Writing Selves

Shaping Plots

Final Year Timetable Core/Student Option

Choose 40 credits from the following:

Semester 1

Undergraduate Dissertation

The Writing Project

Semester 2

Undergraduate Dissertation

The Writing Project

Final Year Options

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

Semester 1

Reading Theory / Reading Text

Romantic Eroticism

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

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

Semester 2

Victorian Childhoods

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

Haunting Texts

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

Literatures of Surveillance

Final Year Options

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

Semester 1

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

Writing and Place

Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science

Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing

Semester 2

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

Poetry for today

Crisis Writing

Writing Crime Fiction

Available both years Electives

Over years 2 and 3, up to 40 credits of elective modules may be selected from those offered by other departments subject to timetable restraints and approval by the department

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
Sports Bursary
Music Bursary
International Excellence Scholarship
Residential Bursary
Aberystwyth Bursary
Care Leaver Bursary