Photography / Creative Writing
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Key Facts
WW68-
UCAS Tariff
120 - 104
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Course duration
3 years
Further details on entry requirements
Apply NowPhotography and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University will enable you to cultivate your imagination, inventiveness and creativity, while broadening your visual and verbal language. This inter-disciplinary degree will allow you to explore and experiment with genre, form, language, media, style, and presentation. You will develop skills related to image capture and reproduction in analogue and digital media, while acquiring the knowledge required for the successful writing of non-fiction, prose and poetry. On completion of this degree, you will graduate with a portfolio of exceptional creative material, and the skills and attributes to flourish in your chosen career.
Course Overview
Modules September start - 2023
Please note: The modules listed below are those currently intended for delivery during the next academic year and may be subject to change. They are included here to give an indication of how the course is structured.
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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Photographic Practice 1: Presence / Place | AR11520 | 20 |
Photographic Practice II: Identity/Face | AR11620 | 20 |
Photography Begins: European Genius and the Birth of a New Aesthetic | AH11820 | 20 |
Beginning Creative Writing Part 1 | WR11020 | 20 |
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2 | WR11120 | 20 |
Creative Practice | WR11320 | 20 |
Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing | WR10220 | 20 |
Options
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product | IC17720 | 20 |
American Literature 1819-1925 | EN11220 | 20 |
Ancestral Voices | EN10220 | 20 |
Contemporary Writing | EN10520 | 20 |
Critical Practice | EN11320 | 20 |
Greek and Roman Epic and Drama | CL10120 | 20 |
Introduction to Poetry | WL10420 | 20 |
Language Awareness for TESOL | IC13420 | 20 |
Literature And The Sea | WL11420 | 20 |
Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature | WL10120 | 20 |
Reading for Writers | WR10020 | 20 |
The Beginning of the English Language | EN11520 | 20 |
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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Documentary Photography | AH24020 | 20 |
Photographic Practice III: Constructed Images | AR24320 | 20 |
Photographic Practice IV: Documentary Storytelling | AR24420 | 20 |
Beginning the Novel | WR20220 | 20 |
Options
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s | WL20720 | 20 |
Adventures with Poetry | WR22120 | 20 |
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1 | IC27720 | 20 |
Reading and Writing Fantasy Fiction | WL20220 | 20 |
Shaping Plots | WR21720 | 20 |
Short stories: Grit and Candour | WL20320 | 20 |
Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction | WR21120 | 20 |
Writing Selves | WR20620 | 20 |
Classical Drama and Myth | CL20320 | 20 |
Contemporary Queer Fiction | EN21620 | 20 |
Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis | EN21120 | 20 |
Demons, Degenerates and New Women (Fin de Siecle Fictions) | EN23420 | 20 |
In the Olde Days: Medieval Texts and Their World | EN23120 | 20 |
Literary Geographies | EN21020 | 20 |
Literary Modernisms | EN20920 | 20 |
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues | EN20120 | 20 |
Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century | EN21220 | 20 |
Literature since 1945 | EN22920 | 20 |
Place and Self | EN22120 | 20 |
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780 | EN28720 | 20 |
Thinking Photography | AH22820 | 20 |
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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Exhibition 1: Graduation Show | AR30130 | 30 |
Photography 5 - Photo Directed Practice | AR32130 | 30 |
Options
Module Name | Module Code | Credit Value |
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Haunting Texts | EN30820 | 20 |
Reading Theory / Reading Text | EN30120 | 20 |
Romantic Eroticism | EN30520 | 20 |
Speculative Fiction and the Climate Crisis | EN33320 | 20 |
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920a | EN31320 | 20 |
Victorian Childhoods | EN30320 | 20 |
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English | EN30420 | 20 |
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s) | EN33620 | 20 |
Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science | WR32720 | 20 |
Crisis Writing | WR31820 | 20 |
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2 | IC37820 | 20 |
Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing | WR32820 | 20 |
Kapow! Reading and Writing Graphic Narratives | WR32320 | 20 |
Literatures of Surveillance | WL35320 | 20 |
Poetry for today | WR31220 | 20 |
Reading and Writing Science Fiction | WL32220 | 20 |
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now | WL30620 | 20 |
The Writing Project | WR30040 | 40 |
Writing Crime Fiction | WR32420 | 20 |
Writing Horror | WR31920 | 20 |
Writing Music | WR32620 | 20 |
Writing and Place | WR32120 | 20 |
* Also available partially or entirely through the medium of Welsh
Careers
Teaching & Learning
Typical Entry Requirements
UCAS Tariff 120 - 104
A Levels BBB-BCC to include B in an English related subject and a satisfactory portfolio
GCSE requirements (minimum grade C/4):
English or Welsh
BTEC National Diploma:
DDM-DMM with a specified subject and a satisfactory portfolio
International Baccalaureate:
30-28 and a satisfactory portfolio
European Baccalaureate:
75%-65% overall and a satisfactory portfolio
English Language Requirements:
See our Undergraduate English Language Requirements for this course. Pre-sessional English Programmes are also available for students who do not meet our English Language Requirements.
Country Specific Entry Requirements:
International students whose qualification is not listed on this page, can check our Country Specific Entry Requirements for further information.
The University welcomes undergraduate applications from students studying the Access to Higher Education Diploma or T-level qualifications, provided that relevant subject content and learning outcomes are met. We are not able to accept Access to Higher Education Diplomas or T-levels as a general qualification for every undergraduate degree course.
Our inclusive admissions policy values breadth as well as depth of study. Applicants are selected on their own individual merits and offers can vary. If you would like to check the eligibility of your qualifications before submitting an application, please contact the Undergraduate Admissions Office for advice and guidance.