BA 
        Creative Writing
        [W801]
      
Academic Year: 2024/2025Single Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
              Part 1 Rules
            
Year 1 
                      Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
 
Semester 1
WR11020Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
 
 
Semester 2
WR11120Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
 
 
 
Year 1 
                      Options
Students must take at least 40 credits and up to 80 credits from the following:
 
Semester 1
EN11220American Literature 1819-1925
 
IC17700Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
 
WL10120Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
 
 
Semester 2
CL10120Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
 
IC13420Language Awareness for TESOL
 
IC17720Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
 
WL11920Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
 
 
 
Year 1 
                      Electives
Students may register up to 40 credits from other departments.
 
  
              Part 2 Rules
            
Year 2 
                      Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
 
Year 2 
                      Options
Students must choose at least 60 credits and a maximum of 100 credits from the following:
 
Semester 1
EN20120Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
 
EN23120In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
 
EN28720Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
 
IC23420TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
 
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
 
WL20720A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
 
WR21120Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
 
 
Semester 2
EN21120Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
 
EN21220Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
 
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
 
WL20320Short stories: Grit and Candour
 
 
 
Year 2 
                      Electives
Students may register for up to 40 credits from other departments
 
Final Year 
                      Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
 
Final Year 
                      Options
Students must choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits from the following:
 
Semester 1
EN30120Reading Theory / Reading Text
 
EN31320The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
 
IC37820Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
 
WL30620Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
 
WR32720Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
 
WR32820Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
 
 
Semester 2
EN30420Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
 
EN33620Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
 
IC33420TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
 
IC37820Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
 
 
 
Final Year 
                      Electives
Students may register for up to 40 credits from other departments
 
  
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award 
 
- Sports Bursary  
 
- Music Bursary
 
- International Excellence Scholarship
 
- Residential Bursary
 
- Aberystwyth Bursary
 
- Care Leaver Bursary