Study Schemes

BA  Creative Writing [W801]

Academic Year: 2023/2024Single Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015

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  Options

Students must take at least 40 credits and up to 80 credits from 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  Electives

Students may register up to 40 credits from other departments.

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
WR20220

Beginning the Novel

Year 2  Options

Students must choose at least 60 credits and a maximum of 100 credits from the following:

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

Year 2  Electives

Students may register for up to 40 credits from other departments

Final Year  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
WR30000

The Writing Project

Semester 2
WR30040

The Writing Project

Final Year  Options

Students must choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits from the following:

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

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

WR31220

Poetry for today

WR31820

Crisis Writing

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

WR32720

Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science

Final Year  Electives

Students may register for up to 40 credits from other departments

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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