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BA Creative Writing and Modern Languages

Aberystwyth University

Institution
Aberystwyth University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Creative Writing and Modern Languages
Duration
4 years
UCAS code
WR90
Typical offer
A-level BBB

Entry requirements

A level: BBB-BCC IB: 30-28

About this course

BA in English with Creative Writing and Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Core topics include research methods. The four-year programme includes a year abroad at a partner university or on a work placement in a country relevant to the chosen language. Language modules are offered at both beginners' and advanced levels.

Modules

  • Beginning Creative Writing
  • Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
  • American Literature 1800-2000
  • Ancestral Voices
  • Critical Practice
  • Exploring German Cultural Identity
  • Hispanic Civilization
  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
  • Introduction to European Film
  • Introduction to French Studies
  • Introduction to Poetry
  • Language Awareness for TESOL
  • Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe
  • Literature And The Sea
  • Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
  • Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
  • Study and Research Skills in Modern Languages
  • We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
  • French Language (Beginners)
  • French Language (Non-Beginners)
  • German Language (Beginners)
  • German Language (Non-Beginners)
  • Italian Language (Beginners)
  • Spanish Language (Beginners)
  • Spanish Language (Non-Beginners)
  • Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
  • French Language (Intermediate)
  • German Language (Intermediate)
  • Italian Language (Intermediate)
  • Spanish Language (Intermediate)
  • '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 German Politics
  • Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
  • Cuba in Revolution
  • Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
  • German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
  • Introduction to Historical Linguistics: Languages in Europe
  • Literary Geographies
  • Literary Modernisms
  • Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
  • Literature since the '60s
  • Littérature fantastique, 18e-20e siècles / Fantastic literature, 18th-20th centuries
  • Place and Self
  • Rethinking late 20th Century Italy
  • Spanish American Cinema
  • Spanish Cinema ii: New Tendencies
  • TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
  • The Language of German Drama
  • The Spanish Avant-Garde
  • Voyage Et Litterature En France / Travel and Literature in France
  • Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
  • Crisis Writing
  • French Language (Advanced)
  • German Language (Advanced)
  • Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
  • Independent Research Project
  • Italian Language (Advanced)
  • Literatures of Surveillance
  • Poetry for today
  • Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
  • Spanish Language (Advanced)
  • Writing Crime Fiction
  • Writing Horror
  • Writing and Place
  • Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
  • Contemporary German Politics
  • Cuba in Revolution
  • Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
  • German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK
  • Haunting Texts
  • Introduction to Historical Linguistics: Languages in Europe
  • Littérature fantastique, 18e-20e siècles / Fantastic literature, 18th-20th centuries
  • Post-Colonial African Literature in English
  • Reading Late 19th Century Literature
  • Reading Theory / Reading Text
  • Rethinking late 20th Century Italy
  • Spanish Cinema ii: New Tendencies
  • TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
  • The Language of German Drama
  • The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
  • Victorian Childhoods
  • Voyage Et Litterature En France / Travel and Literature in France
  • Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English