Study Schemes
BA Creative Writing and History [WV81]
Academic Year: 2023/2024Joint Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1 Options
Choose one of the following
Year 1 Options
Students MUST take a further 20 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning the Novel
Year 2 Options
Students MUST take a further 40 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the SKILLS (semester two) and/or OPTION modules listed. Students may choose one skills module and an option module OR two option modules.
Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300-1500
Reading a Building
History as myth-Making: the 'Myth of the Blitz'
Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
Seals in Their Context in Medieval England and Wales
Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits from the available level 2 modules
Classical Drama and Myth
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Literary Modernisms
Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
Contemporary Queer Fiction
In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Adventures with Poetry
Literary Geographies
Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
Place and Self
Literature since the '60s
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
Short stories: Grit and Candour
A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
Writing Selves
Shaping Plots
Year 2 Options
OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
Famine in Medieval England
War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century
Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
Culture, Society and the Victorians
Wales under the Tudors
Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century
Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250
The European Reformation
From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948
The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
Final Year Options
Choose at least 40 credits from the available level 3 modules
Reading Theory / Reading Text
Romantic Eroticism
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Literatures of Surveillance
The Writing Project
Writing Horror
Writing and Place
Writing Music
Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
Victorian Childhoods
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Haunting Texts
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
The Writing Project
Poetry for today
Crisis Writing
Writing Crime Fiction
Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
Final Year Options
Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:
Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
Famine in Medieval England
War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century
Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
Culture, Society and the Victorians
Wales under the Tudors
Concro'r Byd: Tŵf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century
Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250
The European Reformation
From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948
The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
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