Study Schemes

BA  Creative Arts [WW48]

Academic Year: 2024/2025Single Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AR15320

Interdisciplinary Practice 1

Semester 2
AR15420

Interdisciplinary Practice 2

Year 1  Options

Creative Arts students must use their remaining 80 credits by choosing one module from four of the five categories listed below. (A student must take at least one cultural contexts modules during the 3 years.)

Year 1  Options

Category 1: Fine Art (students wishing to pursue Fine Art options will be required to have a portfolio which will be considered during application stage):

Semester 1
AR11120

Drawing: Looking, Seeing, Thinking

AR11320

Drawing: Extended Practice

Semester 2
AR11220

Painting: Looking, Seeing, Thinking

AR11420

Painting: Extended Practice

Year 1  Options

Category 2: Film and TV Production:

Semester 1
FM11420

Making Short Films 1

Semester 2
FM11520

Making Short Films 1

Year 1  Options

Category 3a: Theatre and Performance:

Semester 1
TP11120

Studio Theatre Project

Semester 2
TP11420

Site-Specific Performance Project

Year 1  Options

Category 3b: Scenography

Semester 2
TP11720

Scenography Site Project

Year 1  Options

Category 4: Creative Writing:

Semester 1
WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

Year 1  Options

Category 5: Cultural Studies

Semester 1
AH11320

Pleasure, Power, and Profit: Art in the Long Eighteenth Century

AH11520

Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding

AH11820

Photography Begins

FM10120

Studying Film

FM10620

Studying Media

FM17320

Writing Continuing TV Drama

TP11020

Theatre in Context 1

Semester 2
AH11220

Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums

AH11420

Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century

AH11720

Representing the Body

EN10520

Contemporary Writing

FM10220

Studying Television

FM10720

Studying Communication

FM11120

Movements in Film History

TP11320

Theatre in Context 2

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AR25320

Interdisciplinary Practice 3

Semester 2
AR25420

Interdisciplinary Practice 4

Year 2  Options

Creative Arts students must use their remaining 80 credits by choosing at least one module from three of the five categories listed below. (A student must take at least one cultural contexts module during the 3 years.)

Year 2  Options

Category 1: Fine Art:

Semester 1
AR20120

Painting 1

AR20230

Painting 2

AR20720

Photography 1

AR20830

Photography 2

AR22110

Life Studies 1

AR22320

Printmaking 1: Etching and Relief Printing

AR22430

Printmaking 2: Etching and Relief Printing

AR29820

Introduction to Design and Illustration 1

AR29930

Introduction to Design and Illustration 2

Semester 2
AR20920

Painting 3

AR21030

Painting 4

AR21620

Photography 3

AR21730

Photography 4

AR21820

Book Illustration 1

AR21930

Book Illustration 2

AR22210

Life Studies 2

AR22520

Printmaking 3: Screenprinting, lithography & hybrid printing

AR22630

Printmaking 4: Screenprinting, lithography & hybrid printing

Year 2  Options

Category 2: Film and TV Production:

Semester 1
FM21620

Writing for Film and Television

FM26520

Creative Documentary

Semester 2
FM20920

Creative Fiction: Horror

Year 2  Options

Category 3a: Theatre and Performance:

Semester 1
TP21220

Acting: Process and Performance

TP21620

Devised Performance Project

TP21820

Directors' Theatre

TP23820

New Media Performance

Year 2  Options

Category 3b: Scenography:

Semester 1
TP22320

Principles of Scenography

TP22520

Scenographic Composition

TP22620

Design Project

Year 2  Options

Category 4: Creative Writing:

Semester 1
WR20220

Beginning the Novel

WR21120

Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction

WR22120

Adventures with Poetry

Semester 2
WR20620

Writing Selves

WR21720

Shaping Plots

Year 2  Options

Category 5: Cultural Context (Art History):

Semester 1
AH20520

Modernisms: Art in the Early Twentieth Century

AH21620

The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400

AH23120

Adaptation: Versions, Revisions and Cultural Renewal

Semester 2
AH20020

The Pre-Raphaelites

AH20120

Enlightenment and Empire: Museums, Knowledge, and Meaning

AH20620

Postmodernism and Contemporary Art

AH24020

Documentary Photography

Year 2  Options

Category 5: Cultural Context (Film and TV):

Semester 1
FM20120

LGBT Film & Television

FM20420

The Story of Television

FM22320

Youth Cultures

Semester 2
FM20920

Creative Fiction: Horror

FM21520

Film Stardom and Celebrity

FM21920

Advertising

FM24420

Art Cinema

FM25520

Digital Culture

Year 2  Options

Category 5: Cultural Context (Theatre, Performance and Scenography):

Semester 1
TP21820

Directors' Theatre

TP22320

Principles of Scenography

Semester 2
TP20820

Theatre and Contemporary Society

TP23220

Shakespeare in Performance

Year 2  Options

Category 5: Cultural Context (English):

Semester 1
EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

EN23120

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

Semester 2
EN22120

Place and Self

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

Final Year  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AR35320

Interdisciplinary Practice 5

Semester 2
AR35420

Interdisciplinary Practice 6

Final Year  Options

In addition, Creative Arts students must use their remaining 80 credits by choosing one module from two of the five categories listed below. (A student must take at least one cultural contexts module during the 3 years.)

Final Year  Options

Category 1: Fine Art

Semester 1
AR31610

Life Studies 3

AR31730

Painting 5 - Paint Directed Practice

AR31840

Painting 6 Paint Directed Practice

AR31930

Printmaking 5 - Print Directed Practice

AR32040

Printmaking 6 - Print Directed Practice

AR32130

Photography 5 - Photo Directed Practice

AR32240

Photography 6 - Photo Directed Practice

AR32330

Book Illustration 3

AR32440

Book Illustration 4

Semester 2
AR30130

Exhibition 1: Graduation Show

AR32540

Exhibition 2: Graduation Show

Final Year  Options

Category 2: Film and TV Production

Semester 1
FM33500

Experimental Media Production

FM33700

Documentary Production

FM34200

Fiction Film Production

Semester 2
FM33540

Experimental Media Production

FM33740

Documentary Production

FM34240

Fiction Film Production

Final Year  Options

Category 3a: Theatre and Performance

Semester 1
TP33300

Playwriting

TP35520

Ensemble Performance Project

Semester 2
TP33340

Playwriting

TP33420

Performance and Architecture

TP39020

Musical Theatre Dramaturgies

Final Year  Options

Category 3b: Scenography

Semester 1
TP31240

Advanced Studio Practice (scenography)

Semester 2
TP35940

Advanced Scenographic Project

Final Year  Options

Category 4: Creative Writing

Semester 1
WR30000

The Writing Project

WR32120

Writing and Place

WR32620

Writing Music

WR32720

Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science

WR32820

Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing

Semester 2
WR30040

The Writing Project

WR31220

Poetry for today

WR32420

Writing Crime Fiction

Final Year  Options

Category 5: Cultural Context (Art History):

Semester 1
AH30620

The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400

AH33120

Adaptation: Versions, Revisions and Cultural Renewal

Semester 2
AH30020

The Pre-Raphaelites

AH30120

Enlightenment and Empire: Museums, Knowledge, and Meaning

AH32720

Curating an Exhibition: Researching, Interpreting and Displaying

AH34020

Documentary Photography

Final Year  Options

Category 5: Cultural Context (Film and TV):

Semester 1
FM31020

Screening the Brave New World: television in 20th-century Britain

FM34520

Experimental Cinema

FM38220

Cult Cinema: Texts, Histories and Audiences

FM38320

Gender and the Media

FM38420

Videogame Theories

Semester 2
FM34120

Media Semiotics

FM36720

Media Law and Regulation

Final Year  Options

Category 5: Cultural Context (Theatre, Performance and Scenography):

Semester 1
TP36000

Independent Research Project

Semester 2
TP33420

Performance and Architecture

TP36040

Independent Research Project

Final Year  Options

Category 5: Cultural Context (English):

Semester 1
EN30000

Undergraduate Dissertation

EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30520

Romantic Eroticism

Semester 2
EN30040

Undergraduate Dissertation

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30420

Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English

EN30820

Haunting Texts

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary