BA Creative Writing [W801]
Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 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
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1 Options
Students must take at least 40 credits and up to 80 credits from the following:
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 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 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
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 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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