BA Art History [V350]

Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (80 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AH11320

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

AH11520

Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding

Semester 2
AH11420

Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century

AH11720

Representing the Body

Year 1 Options

Choose 40 credits of level 1 modules from Art History, or relevant FASS modules, including from:

Semester 1
AH11820

Photography Begins

Semester 2
AH11220

Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AH20520

Modernisms: Art in the Early Twentieth Century

Semester 2
AH20620

Postmodernism and Contemporary Art

AH21020

Dissertation Preparation and Professional Practice for Students of Art History

Year 2 Options

Art History students should take their remaining credits form the list of AH2 modules offered by the School of Art or relevant electives.

Semester 1
AH20120

Enlightenment and Empire: Museums, Knowledge, and Meaning

AH23620

Drawn to Order: British Illustration since 1800

AH23720

Art in Wales

Semester 2
AH20720

Rethinking Impressionism

AH24020

Documentary Photography

Final Year Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AH32000

Dissertation

Semester 2
AH32020

Dissertation

Final Year Options

Art History students should take their remaining credits from the list of AH3 modules offered by the School of Art or relevant electives.

Semester 1
AH30120

Enlightenment and Empire: Museums, Knowledge, and Meaning

AH30620

The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400

AH33620

Drawn to Order: British Illustration since 1800

AH33720

Art in Wales

Semester 2
AH30720

Rethinking Impressionism

AH32720

Curating an Exhibition: Researching, Interpreting and Displaying

AH34020

Documentary Photography