BA Media and Creative Writing [P3W8]
Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020
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
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Year 1 Options
Choose one of the following
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2 Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 20 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following Critical Theory modules
Year 2 Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits from the following creative practice modules:
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits from the available level 2 modules
Literary Modernisms
Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
Literature since the '60s
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
Shaping Plots
Adventures with Poetry
Literary Geographies
Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
Place and Self
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
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 Options
Final Year Options
Choose at least 40 credits from the available level 3 modules
Reading Theory / Reading Text
Victorian Childhoods
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Poetry for today
Crisis Writing
Writing and Place
Writing Crime Fiction
Haunting Texts
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Post-Colonial African Literature in English
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Literatures of Surveillance
Writing Horror
Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 20 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following Critical Theory modules (NB: the Independent Research Project is worth 40 credits, 20 in each semester):
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students may take up to 40 credits of the following Creative Practice modules:
Final Year Options
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