Study Schemes
BA Creative Arts [WW48]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
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):
Year 1 Options
Category 2: Film and TV Production:
Year 1 Options
Category 3a: Theatre and Performance:
Year 1 Options
Category 3b: Scenography
Scenography Site Project
Year 1 Options
Category 4: Creative Writing:
Year 1 Options
Category 5: Cultural Studies
Pleasure, Power, and Profit: Art in the Long Eighteenth Century
Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding
Photography Begins
Studying Film
Studying Media
Writing Continuing TV Drama
Theatre in Context 1
Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums
Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century
Representing the Body
Contemporary Writing
Studying Television
Studying Communication
Movements in Film History
Theatre in Context 2
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
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:
Painting 1
Painting 2
Photography 1
Photography 2
Life Studies 1
Printmaking 1: Etching and Relief Printing
Printmaking 2: Etching and Relief Printing
Introduction to Design and Illustration 1
Introduction to Design and Illustration 2
Painting 3
Painting 4
Photography 3
Photography 4
Book Illustration 1
Book Illustration 2
Life Studies 2
Printmaking 3: Screenprinting, lithography & hybrid printing
Printmaking 4: Screenprinting, lithography & hybrid printing
Year 2 Options
Category 2: Film and TV Production:
Creative Fiction: Horror
Year 2 Options
Category 3a: Theatre and Performance:
Year 2 Options
Category 3b: Scenography:
Year 2 Options
Category 4: Creative Writing:
Year 2 Options
Category 5: Cultural Context (Art History):
Year 2 Options
Category 5: Cultural Context (Film and TV):
Year 2 Options
Category 5: Cultural Context (Theatre, Performance and Scenography):
Year 2 Options
Category 5: Cultural Context (English):
Final Year Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
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
Life Studies 3
Painting 5 - Paint Directed Practice
Painting 6 Paint Directed Practice
Printmaking 5 - Print Directed Practice
Printmaking 6 - Print Directed Practice
Photography 5 - Photo Directed Practice
Photography 6 - Photo Directed Practice
Book Illustration 3
Book Illustration 4
Final Year Options
Category 2: Film and TV Production
Final Year Options
Category 3a: Theatre and Performance
Final Year Options
Category 3b: Scenography
Advanced Studio Practice (scenography)
Advanced Scenographic Project
Final Year Options
Category 4: Creative Writing
Final Year Options
Category 5: Cultural Context (Art History):
Final Year Options
Category 5: Cultural Context (Film and TV):
Final Year Options
Category 5: Cultural Context (Theatre, Performance and Scenography):
Independent Research Project
Final Year Options
Category 5: Cultural Context (English):
School of Art, Aberystwyth University, Buarth Mawr, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 1NG
Tel: Department: +44 (0)1970 621537 Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk
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