BA Creative Writing and Modern Languages
About this course
BA in Creative Writing and Modern Languages, a degree combining the practice of creative writing with the study of modern languages, culture, linguistics, and literature. Core topics include Research Methods. The four-year programme includes a compulsory year abroad spent studying at a partner university or completing a work placement. The first year introduces the discipline through compulsory modules Beginning Creative Writing and Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing, alongside optional choices in languages such as French, German, Italian, and Spanish. The second year continues with Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues as a compulsory module, alongside further optional language study and literature topics. The final year offers advanced language options and specialized writing modules including Writing Crime Fiction and Writing Horror, alongside an Independent Research Project.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB-BCC IB: 30-28
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What students say
Based on about 9 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 98%
- Learning opportunities: 95%
- Assessment and feedback: 90%
- Academic support: 96%
- Organisation and management: 92%
- Learning resources: 88%
- Student voice: 92%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 15 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 100%
What graduates do next
Based on about 11 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 55%
- Working and studying: 15%
- Unemployed: 15%
Most common jobs
- Elementary occupations: 20%
- Media Professionals: 15%
- Sales occupations: 15%
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 10%
- Managers, directors and senior officials: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 80%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 60%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 65%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 120 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 8%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 4%
- East Midlands: 4%
- West Midlands: 21%
- East of England: 8%
- London: 10%
- South East: 8%
- South West: 10%
- Wales: 24%
- Scotland: 2%
- Northern Ireland: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 15 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
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
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Creative Writing and Modern Languages at Aberystwyth University earn?
The median salary is £23,000 after 15 months, £18,500 after 3 years, £22,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £18,000 and £27,000. The £22,500 median after five years is £1,000 less than the UK median for Creative writing.
What do graduates of BA Creative Writing and Modern Languages at Aberystwyth University do next?
70% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Creative Writing and Modern Languages at Aberystwyth University?
98% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Creative Writing and Modern Languages at Aberystwyth University?
The typical offer is BBB at A level. The average entrant had 124 UCAS points.
Does BA Creative Writing and Modern Languages at Aberystwyth University include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has a compulsory year abroad.
How many students continue on BA Creative Writing and Modern Languages at Aberystwyth University?
100% of students continued into their second year, and 0% left higher education.