Study Schemes

BA  Media and Creative Writing [P3W8]

Academic Year: 2023/2024Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

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 (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
FM10620

Studying Media

Semester 2
FM10720

Studying Communication

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

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
CL10120

Greek and Roman Epic and Drama

EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN10520

Contemporary Writing

EN11320

Critical Practice

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

IC17720

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

Year 1  Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 2
FM10220

Studying Television

FM11520

Making Short Films 1

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
WR20220

Beginning the Novel

Year 2  Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 40 credits and, subject to the demands of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following FM modules in their second year.

Semester 1
FM20620

Television Genre

FM22320

Youth Cultures

FM22620

Media, Politics and Power

FM26520

Creative Documentary

Semester 2
FM20120

LGBT Screens

FM21520

Stardom and Celebrity

FM21920

Advertising

FM25420

Creative Studio

FM25520

Digital Culture

Year 2  Options

Choose at least 20 credits from the available level 2 modules

Semester 1
CL20320

Classical Drama and Myth

EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

EN20920

Literary Modernisms

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN21620

Contemporary Queer Fiction

EN23120

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WR21120

Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction

WR22120

Adventures with Poetry

Semester 2
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

EN22120

Place and Self

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20320

Short stories: Grit and Candour

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

WR20620

Writing Selves

WR21720

Shaping Plots

Final Year  Options

Joint Honours Media and Communication Studies students must take at least 40 credits and, subject to the deamds of their scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following FM modules in their third year.

Semester 1
FM33500

Experimental Media Production

FM34520

Experimental Cinema

FM36000

Independent Research Project

FM38320

Gender and the Media

FM38420

Videogame Theories

Semester 2
FM30320

Contemporary TV Drama

FM33540

Experimental Media Production

FM34120

Media Semiotics

FM36040

Independent Research Project

FM36720

Media Law

Final Year  Options

Choose at least 40 credits from the available level 3 modules

Semester 1
EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30520

Romantic Eroticism

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

WR30000

The Writing Project

WR31920

Writing Horror

WR32120

Writing and Place

WR32620

Writing Music

WR32820

Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing

Semester 2
EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30420

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

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN31320

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

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WR30040

The Writing Project

WR31220

Poetry for today

WR31820

Crisis Writing

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

WR32720

Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary