BA Creative Writing and History [WV81]
Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020
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 (20 Credits)
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning Creative Writing
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1 Options
Choose one of the following
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2 Options
Students MUST take a further 40 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the SKILLS (semester two) and/or OPTION modules listed. Students may choose one skills module and an option module OR two option modules.
Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America
(Re)writing the past: Medieval chronicles and sagas c. 1000-1300
Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
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
OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
Crefydd, Hud a Gwyddoniaeth
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
European Society and the Medieval Mind 1200-1500
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Science, Religion and Magic
Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean through its arts and traditions
Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
Y Rhyfel Mawr trwy Lygaid y Cymry
Chivalry and courtliness: Elite culture in high medieval England, 1066-1300
Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
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
Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
Crefydd, Hud a Gwyddoniaeth
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
European Society and the Medieval Mind 1200-1500
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Science, Religion and Magic
Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean through its arts and traditions
Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
Y Rhyfel Mawr trwy Lygaid y Cymry
Chivalry and courtliness: Elite culture in high medieval England, 1066-1300
Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
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