Study Schemes
BA Creative Writing and French [WR81]
Academic Year: 2024/2025Joint Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015 (Last intake year is 2023/2024)
Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years
Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
FRENCH ADVANCED: you must take:
French Language Advanced
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must take:
Year 1 Options
Choose one of the following
American Literature 1819-1925
Critical Practice
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
Literature And The Sea
Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
Ancestral Voices
Contemporary Writing
Critical Practice
Language Awareness for TESOL
Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
Introduction to Poetry
Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Year 1 Options
FRENCH ADVANCED: you must choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules from Departments within the Faculty
Year 1 Options
FRENCH BEGINNERS: you must choose 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules from Departments within the Faculty
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (30 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning the Novel
Year 2 Options
Choose 30 credits of the following FR or EL modules:
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following:
Year 2 Options
You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year Core (30 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year Options
Choose 30 credits of the following FR or EL modules:
Dissertation
Extended Essay Module
Brazilian / Portuguese Language III
The Language of Business and Current Affairs
Self-writing, 18th-21st Centuries
History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
"...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France
Final Year Options
You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:
Final Year Options
Choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following:
Department of English & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
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Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary