BA Creative Writing and Fine Art [WW18]

Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint 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).

Semester 1
WR11020

Beginning Creative Writing

Semester 2
WR11120

Beginning Creative Writing Part 2

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Year 1 Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 1
EN11220

American Literature 1800-2000

EN11300

Critical Practice

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN11320

Critical Practice

EN19920

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WL10820

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

Year 1 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
AH11320

Pleasure, Power, and Profit: Art in the Long Eighteenth Century

AH11520

Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding

AH11820

Photography Begins

Semester 2
AH11220

Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums

AH11420

Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century

AH11720

Representing the Body

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Year 2 Options

Joint honours Fine Art students should select a minimum of 40 credits of art practice from the following:

Semester 1
AR20720

Photography 1

AR22320

Printmaking: Etching and Relief Printing (A)

AR25320

Site Specific Practice

Semester 2
AR21820

Book Illustration 1

AR21930

Book Illustration 2

AR22520

Printmaking: Screenprinting and Lithography (A)

AR23210

Professional Practice for Students of Art

AR25420

Site Specific Exhibition

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

WR21720

Shaping Plots

WR22120

Adventures with Poetry

Semester 2
IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20320

Short stories: Grit and Candour

WR20620

Writing Selves

Year 2 Options

You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:

Semester 1
EN20920

Literary Modernisms

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

Semester 2
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

EN22120

Place and Self

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

WL23120

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

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Fine Art students must take AR30130 in Semester 2 of the final year

Final Year Options

You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:

Semester 1
EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30420

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

Semester 2
EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN31320

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

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Fine Art students should select from the following modules for their remaining final year credits:

Semester 1
AR35320

Interdisciplinary Practice 5

Semester 2
AR35420

Interdisciplinary Practice 6

Final Year Options

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

Semester 1
IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL30100

Independent Research Project

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

WR31220

Poetry for today

WR31820

Crisis Writing

WR32120

Writing and Place

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

Semester 2
EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

EN38120

Post-Colonial African Literature in English

IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL30140

Independent Research Project

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

WR31920

Writing Horror

WR32820

Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing