Study Schemes

BA  English Literature and Creative Writing [QW3F]

Academic Year: 2024/2025Single Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020

Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (100 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS01120

Information in a Post-Truth World

GS09520

How to be a Student 1

GS09920

Introduction to Humanities

Semester 2
GS09320

How to be a Student 2

GS09820

Representing the Other: Cultures and Clashes

Year 1  Options

Semester 2
GS00820

Understanding Change - Environment, People, Places

GS09620

The "Othered" Migrant: Social Science Perspectives

Year 2  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN11300

Critical Practice

WR11020

Beginning Creative Writing Part 1

Semester 2
EN11320

Critical Practice

Year 2  Options

Students must take at least 40 credits and up to 80 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
EN11220

American Literature 1819-1925

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

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

IC17720

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

WR11120

Beginning Creative Writing Part 2

Year 2  Electives

Students may register up to 40 credits from other departments

Part 2 Rules

Year 3  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Year 3  Options

Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following:

Semester 1
EN20920

Literary Modernisms

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

Semester 2
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

Year 3  Options

Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following:

Semester 1
CL20320

Classical Drama and Myth

EN23120

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

Semester 2
EN22120

Place and Self

Year 3  Options

Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following:

Semester 1
WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

WR20220

Beginning the Novel

WR21120

Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction

WR22120

Adventures with Poetry

Semester 2
WL20320

Short stories: Grit and Candour

WR20620

Writing Selves

WR21720

Shaping Plots

Final Year  Timetable Core/Student Option

Choose 40 credits from the following:

Semester 1
EN30000

Undergraduate Dissertation

WR30000

The Writing Project

Semester 2
EN30040

Undergraduate Dissertation

WR30040

The Writing Project

Final Year  Options

Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following:

Semester 1
EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30520

Romantic Eroticism

EN31320

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

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

Semester 2
EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30420

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

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

Final Year  Options

Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following:

Semester 1
IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WR32120

Writing and Place

WR32720

Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science

WR32820

Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing

Semester 2
IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WR31220

Poetry for today

WR31820

Crisis Writing

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

Available both years  Electives

Over years 2 and 3, up to 40 credits of elective modules may be selected from those offered by other departments subject to timetable restraints and approval by the department

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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