BA Creative Writing and History
About this course
BA in English with Creative Writing and History, combining creative writing with historical study. Core topics include research methods. The course spans two departments and includes a residential writing retreat in the third year, previously held at Gregynog Hall near Aberystwyth. The Penglais Campus is adjacent to the National Library of Wales, which holds a copy of every UK publication.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB-BCC IB: 30-28 with 5 points in an English related subject at Higher Level
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What students say
Based on about 54 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 95%
- Learning opportunities: 92%
- Assessment and feedback: 88%
- Academic support: 95%
- Organisation and management: 91%
- Learning resources: 94%
- Student voice: 90%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 85 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 90%
- Left higher education: 9%
- Moved to a lower qualification: 1%
What graduates do next
Based on about 21 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 50%
- Working and studying: 10%
- Further study: 25%
- Unemployed: 5%
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: 25%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 20%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 155 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 5%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 5%
- East Midlands: 4%
- West Midlands: 23%
- East of England: 5%
- London: 5%
- South East: 7%
- South West: 6%
- Wales: 38%
- Scotland: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 90 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 98%
- Baccalaureate: 1%
- Other HE qualification: 1%
Modules
- Beginning Creative Writing
- Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
- Introduction to History
- 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
- 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians
- Europe and the World, 1000-2000
- Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800
- People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999
- The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- Making History
- '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
- African-American History, 1808 to the Present
- Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
- Chivalry and courtliness: Elite culture in high medieval England, 1066-1300
- Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
- European Society and the Medieval Mind 1200-1500
- Reading the Classroom: from the Nursery to the University
- Science, Religion and Magic
- Shaping Plots
- Short stories: Grit and Candour
- Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
- The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
- The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
- Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean through its arts and traditions
- Writing Selves
- (Re)writing the past: Medieval chronicles and sagas c. 1000-1300
- Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
- Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
- Literary Geographies
- Literary Modernisms
- Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- Literature since the '60s
- Place and Self
- Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
- TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
- Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
- Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- African-American History, 1808 to the Present
- Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
- Chivalry and courtliness: Elite culture in high medieval England, 1066-1300
- Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
- European Society and the Medieval Mind 1200-1500
- Science, Religion and Magic
- The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
- The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
- The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
- Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean through its arts and traditions
- 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
- Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
- Haunting Texts
- 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
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Creative Writing and History at Aberystwyth University earn?
The median salary is £25,000 after 15 months, £19,500 after 3 years, £25,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £21,000 and £30,500. The £25,500 median after five years is £2,000 more than the UK median for Creative writing.
What do graduates of BA Creative Writing and History at Aberystwyth University do next?
85% 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 History at Aberystwyth University?
95% 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 History at Aberystwyth University?
The typical offer is BBB at A level. The average entrant had 109 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA Creative Writing and History at Aberystwyth University?
90% of students continued into their second year, and 9% left higher education.