Study Schemes
BA Creative Writing and Fine Art [WW18]
Academic Year: 2024/2025Joint 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).
Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Drawing: Looking, Seeing, Thinking
Painting: Looking, Seeing, Thinking
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
Choose 20 credits
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning the Novel
Year 2 Options
Joint honours Fine Art students should select a minimum of 40 credits of art practice from the following:
Painting 1
Painting 2
Photography 1
Photography 2
Life Studies 1
Printmaking 1: Etching and Relief Printing
Printmaking 2: Etching and Relief Printing
Interdisciplinary Practice 3
Introduction to Design and Illustration 1
Introduction to Design and Illustration 2
Painting 3
Painting 4
Photography 3
Photography 4
Book Illustration 1
Book Illustration 2
Life Studies 2
Printmaking 3: Screenprinting, lithography & hybrid printing
Printmaking 4: Screenprinting, lithography & hybrid printing
Professional Practice for Students of Art
Interdisciplinary Practice 4
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:
Classical Drama and Myth
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Literary Modernisms
Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Fine Art students must take AR30130 in Semester 2 of the final year
Exhibition 1: Graduation Show
Final Year Options
You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Fine Art students should select from the following modules for their remaining final year credits:
Life Studies 3
Painting 5 - Paint Directed Practice
Printmaking 5 - Print Directed Practice
Photography 5 - Photo Directed Practice
Book Illustration 3
Interdisciplinary Practice 5
Interdisciplinary Practice 6
Final Year Options
You must choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following:
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
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
The Writing Project
Poetry for today
Crisis Writing
Writing Crime Fiction
Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
Department of English & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
Tel: Department: +44(0) 1970 621537 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021 Fax: (01970) 622530 Email: english@aber.ac.uk Facebook
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary