BA
Fine Art
[W100]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2003/2004
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (80 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
AR11120Drawing: Looking, Seeing, Thinking
Semester 2
AR11220Painting: Looking, Seeing, Thinking
Year 1
Options
Select 40 credits from:
Semester 1
AH11320Pleasure, Power, and Profit: Art in the Long Eighteenth Century
AH11520Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding
Semester 2
AH11220Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums
AH11420Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (10 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 2
AR23210Professional Practice for Students of Art
Year 2
Options
Fine Art students must take 70 to 90 credits from the list of AR2 modules.
Semester 1
AR22320Printmaking 1: Etching and Relief Printing
AR22430Printmaking 2: Etching and Relief Printing
AR25320Interdisciplinary Practice 3
AR29820Introduction to Design and Illustration 1
AR29930Introduction to Design and Illustration 2
Semester 2
AR22520Printmaking 3: Screenprinting, lithography & hybrid printing
AR22630Printmaking 4: Screenprinting, lithography & hybrid printing
AR25420Interdisciplinary Practice 4
Year 2
Options
Fine Art students must take at least 20 credits from AH2 modules during the second year
Semester 1
AH20520Modernisms: Art in the Early Twentieth Century
AH21620The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400
AH23120Adaptation: Versions, Revisions and Cultural Renewal
Semester 2
AH20120Enlightenment and Empire: Museums, Knowledge, and Meaning
AH20620Postmodernism and Contemporary Art
Final Year
Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
AR30600Research and Process in Practice
Semester 2
AR30620Research and Process in Practice
AR32540Exhibition 2: Graduation Show
Final Year
Options
Fine Art students may take either 40 credits from the following:
Semester 1
AR31840Painting 6 Paint Directed Practice
AR32040Printmaking 6 - Print Directed Practice
AR32240Photography 6 - Photo Directed Practice
AR35320Interdisciplinary Practice 5
Semester 2
AR35420Interdisciplinary Practice 6
Final Year
Options
OR take AR31610 (Life Studies 3) and one from the following list of modules
Semester 1
AR31730Painting 5 - Paint Directed Practice
AR31930Printmaking 5 - Print Directed Practice
AR32130Photography 5 - Photo Directed Practice
Final Year
Options
Fine Art students must take at least 20 credits from AH3 modules during their final year
Semester 1
AH30620The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400
AH33120Adaptation: Versions, Revisions and Cultural Renewal
Semester 2
AH30120Enlightenment and Empire: Museums, Knowledge, and Meaning
AH32720Curating an Exhibition: Researching, Interpreting and Displaying
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
