BA Photography / Creative Writing [WW68]

Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021

Last intake year is 2024/2025

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).

Semester 1
WR11020

Beginning Creative Writing Part 1

Semester 2
WR11120

Beginning Creative Writing Part 2

Year 1 Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AH11820

Photography Begins

Year 1 Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 1
EN11220

American Literature 1819-1925

EN11300

Critical Practice

IC17700

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL10820

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

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN11320

Critical Practice

EN19920

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

IC17720

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Year 2 Core (40 Credits)

Joint Honours Photography students must take:

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AR24320

Photographic Practice III: Constructed Images

Semester 2
AR24420

Photographic Practice IV: Documentary Storytelling

Year 2 Options

Must take 20 credits

Semester 2
AH24020

Documentary Photography

Year 2 Options

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

WR22120

Adventures with Poetry

Semester 2
IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20320

Short stories: Grit and Candour

WR20620

Writing Selves

WR21720

Shaping Plots

Year 2 Options

You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:

Semester 1
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

WL23120

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

Semester 2
EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN22120

Place and Self

Final Year Core (60 Credits)

Joint Honours Photography students must take:

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AR32130

Photography 5 - Photo Directed Practice

Semester 2
AR30130

Exhibition 1: Graduation Show

Final Year Options

You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:

Semester 1
EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30820

Haunting Texts

Semester 2
EN30420

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

EN31320

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

Final Year Options

You must choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following:

Semester 1
EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL30100

Independent Research Project

WR31820

Crisis Writing

WR32120

Writing and Place

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

Semester 2
IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL30140

Independent Research Project

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

WR31220

Poetry for today

WR31920

Writing Horror

WR32620

Writing Music