BA
Fine Art / Art History
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Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
AH11520Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding
Year 1
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
AR11120Drawing: Looking, Seeing, Thinking
Semester 2
AR11220Painting: Looking, Seeing, Thinking
Year 1
Options
Art History joint honours students must take at least one of the following:
Semester 1
AH11320Pleasure, Power, and Profit: Art in the Long Eighteenth Century
Semester 2
AH11420Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century
Year 1
Options
Art History joint honours students who do not take both AH11320 and AH11420 can select the remaining 20 credits from the following
Semester 2
AH11220Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
AH20520Modernisms: Art in the Early Twentieth Century
Semester 2
AH20620Postmodernism and Contemporary Art
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
Art History Joint Honours choose 20 elective credits from the AH2 modules on offer:
Semester 1
AH21620The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400
AH23120Adaptation: Versions, Revisions and Cultural Renewal
Semester 2
AH20120Enlightenment and Empire: Museums, Knowledge, and Meaning
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
Final year students should select 60 credits of AH3 modules.
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
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
