BA English Literature and Creative Writing [QW38]
Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Single Honours scheme - available from 2008/2009
Duration 3 years
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Critical Practice
Year 1 Options
Students must take at least 40 credits and up to 80 credits from the following modules:
American Literature 1819-1925
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
Literature And The Sea
Ancestral Voices
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
Language Awareness for TESOL
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Introduction to Poetry
We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1 Electives
Students may register up to 40 credits from other departments
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
Year 2 Options
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
Final Year Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Independent Research Project
Independent Research Project
Final Year Options
Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits
Final Year Options
English and Creative Writing,Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
Telephone Department: +44 01970 622534 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021
Email: english@aber.ac.uk