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BA Creative Writing and Drama and Theatre

Aberystwyth University

Institution
Aberystwyth University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Creative Writing and Drama and Theatre
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
W841
Typical offer
A-level BBB

Entry requirements

A level: BBB-BCC IB: 30-28

About this course

BA in Creative Writing and Drama and Theatre. Core topics include Research Methods and Design & Creative Practice. The course has a collaborative relationship with the on-campus Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Students receive unlimited access to the National Library of Wales.

Modules

  • Beginning Creative Writing
  • Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
  • Theatre in Context 1
  • Theatre in Context 2
  • Site-Specific Performance Project
  • Studio Theatre Project
  • American Literature 1800-2000
  • Ancestral Voices
  • Critical Practice
  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
  • Introduction to Poetry
  • Language Awareness for TESOL
  • Literature And The Sea
  • Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
  • Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
  • We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
  • Acting: Process and Performance
  • Body, Voice, Perception
  • Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
  • Acting for Camera
  • Creative Arts at Work
  • Design Project
  • Devised Performance Project
  • Directors' Theatre
  • Shakespeare in Performance
  • Theatre Production Project
  • Theatre and Contemporary Society
  • 'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
  • A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
  • Adventures with Poetry
  • Reading the Classroom: from the Nursery to the University
  • Shaping Plots
  • Short stories: Grit and Candour
  • Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
  • Writing Selves
  • Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
  • Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
  • Literary Geographies
  • Literary Modernisms
  • Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
  • Literature since the '60s
  • Place and Self
  • TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
  • Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
  • Contemporary Drama
  • Music Theatre Dramaturgies
  • New Media Performance
  • Performance and Architecture
  • Performance and Disability
  • Place, Space and Landscape
  • Crisis Writing
  • Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
  • Independent Research Project
  • Literatures of Surveillance
  • Poetry for today
  • Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
  • Writing Crime Fiction
  • Writing Horror
  • Writing and Place
  • Advanced Studio Practice (scenography)
  • Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
  • Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
  • Ensemble Performance Project
  • Haunting Texts
  • Independent Research Project
  • Playwriting
  • Post-Colonial African Literature in English
  • Reading Theory / Reading Text
  • TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
  • The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
  • Victorian Childhoods
  • Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English