BA Creative Writing [W801]
Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Single Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015
Duration 3 years
Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence Scholarship;
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).
Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1 Options
Students must take at least 40 credits and up to 80 credits from the following:
American Literature 1819-1925
Critical Practice
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
Literature And The Sea
Ancestral Voices
Critical Practice
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
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
Students must choose at least 60 credits and a maximum of 100 credits from the following:
Literary Geographies
Literature since the '60s
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Adventures with Poetry
Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
Place and Self
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
Short stories: Grit and Candour
'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
Writing Selves
Year 2 Electives
Students may register for up to 40 credits from other departments
Final Year Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Independent Research Project
Independent Research Project
Final Year Options
Students must choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits from the following:
Reading Theory / Reading Text
Victorian Childhoods
Haunting Texts
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Crisis Writing
Writing and Place
Writing Crime Fiction
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Literatures of Surveillance
Writing Horror
Writing Music
Final Year Electives
Students may register for up to 40 credits from other departments
English and Creative Writing,Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
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