BA Creative Arts [WW48]
Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Single Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015
Last intake year is 2024/2025
Duration 3 years
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 (40 Credits)
Year 1 Options
Creative Arts students must use their remaining 80 credits by choosing one module from each of the four 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 3: Theatre and Performance:
Year 1 Options
Category 4: Creative Writing:
Year 1 Options
Category 5: Cultural Context
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Interdisciplinary Practice 3
Interdisciplinary Practice 4
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
Design and Illustration 1
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
Year 2 Options
Category 3: Theatre and Performance:
Year 2 Options
Category 4: Creative Writing:
Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Adventures with Poetry
Writing Selves
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):
Shakespeare in Performance
Year 2 Options
Final Year Core (40 Credits)
During the final year, students of BA Creative Arts will have two compulsory (core) modules, one in each semester:
Compulsory module(s).
Interdisciplinary Practice 5
Interdisciplinary Practice 6
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
Art,Buarth Mawr, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, , SY23 1NG
Telephone Department: +44 01970 622460 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021
Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk