Study Schemes

BA  Creative Writing and History [WV81]

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

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY12120

Introduction to History

or
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

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

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

WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

Year 1  Options

Students MUST take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:

Semester 1
HC11120

Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800

HY11420

Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800

HY11820

The Modern World, 1789 to the present

Semester 2
HA10420

Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr

HA11420

Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000

HC11820

Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999

HY10420

'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians

HY12420

Europe and the World, 1000-2000

WH11720

People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY20120

Making History

or
HA20120

Llunio Hanes

Year 2  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
WR20220

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.

Semester 2
HA24720

Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America

HY24120

Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250

HY24320

Interdisciplinary and decolonial history

HY24620

Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions

HY25020

Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.

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

EN23120

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

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

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN22120

Place and Self

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20320

Short stories: Grit and Candour

WR20620

Writing Selves

WR21720

Shaping Plots

Year 2  Options

OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:

Semester 1
HA26820

Rhyfel Cartref America

HA28120

Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008

HY20920

The Tudors: A European Dynasty?

HY25920

Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze

HY27520

Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

HY28320

African-American History, 1808 to the Present

HY28620

Science, Religion and Magic

Semester 2
HC20120

Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417

HC23420

Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850

HY25720

The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300

HY29620

Germany since 1945

HY29720

The Atlantic World, 1492-1825

HY29920

Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c.1400 to the present)

WH23420

Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850

Final Year  Options

Choose at least 40 credits from the available level 3 modules

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

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

WR30000

The Writing Project

WR31920

Writing Horror

WR32120

Writing and Place

WR32620

Writing Music

WR32720

Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science

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

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

WR30040

The Writing Project

WR31220

Poetry for today

WR31820

Crisis Writing

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

Final Year  Options

Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:

Semester 1
HA36820

Rhyfel Cartref America

HA38120

Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008

HY30920

The Tudors: A European Dynasty?

HY35920

Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze

HY37520

Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

HY38620

Science, Religion and Magic

HY38820

African-American History, 1808 to the Present

Semester 2
HC30120

Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417

HC33420

Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850

HY35720

The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300

HY39620

Germany since 1945

HY39720

The Atlantic World, 1492-1825

HY39920

Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c. 1400 to the present)

WH33420

Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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