BA Media and Creative Writing
About this course
BA in English with Creative Writing and Film Studies, combining literary study, creative practice, and film. Core topics include Research Methods. The course is taught jointly by two departments: English and Creative Writing, and Theatre, Film and Television Studies. A television studio is available on campus, and BBC Wales houses a regional office within the department.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB-CCC IB: 30-26
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What students say
Based on about 45 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 88%
- Learning opportunities: 86%
- Assessment and feedback: 89%
- Academic support: 93%
- Organisation and management: 89%
- Learning resources: 92%
- Student voice: 85%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 45 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 90%
- Left higher education: 10%
What graduates do next
Based on about 10 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 70%
- Working and studying: 5%
- Further study: 5%
- 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: 75%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 50%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 35%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 50 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 5%
- West Midlands: 20%
- East of England: 5%
- London: 10%
- South East: 5%
- Wales: 55%
Who gets in
Based on about 40 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 95%
- Other HE qualification: 5%
Modules
- Beginning Creative Writing
- Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
- Studying Communication
- Studying Media
- American Literature 1800-2000
- Ancestral Voices
- Critical Practice
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- Introduction to Poetry
- Language Awareness for TESOL
- Literature And The Sea
- Making Short Films 1
- Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
- Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Studying Television
- We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
- Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- '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
- Digital Culture
- Media, Politics and Power
- 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
- The Story of Television
- Writing Selves
- Youth Cultures
- Art Cinema
- Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- Creative Documentary
- Creative Television Studio
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
- Film Stardom and Celebrity
- LGBT Film & Television
- Literary Geographies
- Literary Modernisms
- Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- Literature since the '60s
- Place and Self
- TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
- Work in the Film & Television Industries
- Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- Gender and the Media
- Independent Research Project
- Media Law and Regulation
- Media and Society in Wales
- Videogame Theories
- 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)
- Contemporary TV
- Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences
- Documentary Production
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
- Experimental Cinema
- Experimental Media Production
- 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 Media and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University earn?
The median salary is £23,000 after 15 months, £18,500 after 3 years, £24,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £19,000 and £29,500. The £24,000 median after five years is £500 more than the UK median for Creative writing.
What do graduates of BA Media and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University do next?
80% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Media and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University?
88% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Media and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University?
The typical offer is BBB at A level. The average entrant had 106 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA Media and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University?
90% of students continued into their second year, and 10% left higher education.