BA
Fine Art / English Literature
[WQ13]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
AR11120Drawing: Looking, Seeing, Thinking
Semester 2
AR11220Painting: Looking, Seeing, Thinking
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1
Options
Choose 20 credits
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
Year 1
Options
Choose 20 credits
Semester 1
EN11220American Literature 1819-1925
IC17700Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
WL10120Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
Semester 2
CL10120Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
IC13420Language Awareness for TESOL
IC17720Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product
WL11920Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
EN20120Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2
Options
Joint honours Fine Art students should select a minimum of 40 credits of art practice from the following:
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
AR23210Professional Practice for Students of Art
AR25420Interdisciplinary Practice 4
Year 2
Options
Choose 20 credits
Semester 1
IC23420TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
WL20720A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
Semester 2
EN21120Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
EN21220Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
IC27720Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
Year 2
Options
Choose 20 credits
Semester 1
EN23120In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
EN28720Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
Final Year
Options
Joint Honours Fine Art students must take AR30130 in Semester 2 of the final year
Semester 2
AR30130Exhibition 1: Graduation Show
Final Year
Options
Choose 60 credits
Semester 1
EN30120Reading Theory / Reading Text
EN31320The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
IC37820Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
WL30620Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Semester 2
EN30420Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
EN33620Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
IC33420TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
IC37820Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Final Year
Options
Joint Honours Fine Art students should select from the following modules for their remaining final year credits:
Semester 1
AR31730Painting 5 - Paint Directed Practice
AR31930Printmaking 5 - Print Directed Practice
AR32130Photography 5 - Photo Directed Practice
AR35320Interdisciplinary Practice 5
Semester 2
AR35420Interdisciplinary Practice 6
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary