BA Fine Art / Art History [WV13]
Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
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 (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding
Year 1 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Studio Practice
Year 1 Options
Art History joint honours students must take at least one of the following:
Pleasure, Power, and Profit: Art in the Long Eighteenth Century
Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century
Year 1 Options
Art in Wales
Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums
Representing the Body
Life Studies Begins
Printmaking: Material Transformations
Contemporary Painting
Photography: Introduction to Darkroom and Digital Practice
Illustration: Foundations to Storytelling
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Modernisms: Art in the Early Twentieth Century
Postmodernism and Contemporary Art
Year 2 Options
Joint honours Fine Art students should select a minimum of 40 credits of art practice from the following:
Painting: Studio Practice
Painting: Studio Practice
Photography 1
Life Studies 1
Printmaking: Etching and Relief Printing (A)
Printmaking: Etching and Relief Printing (B)
Illustration: Worlds and Characters (1)
Illustration: Worlds and Characters (2)
Site Specific Practice
Digital Skills
Photography 2
Painting: Practice Development (1)
Painting: Practice Development (2)
Printmaking: Screenprinting and Lithography (A)
Life Studies 2
Illustration: Binding Stories (1)
Illustration: Binding Stories (2)
Photography: Advanced Darkroom and Digital Practice (1)
Photography: Advanced Darkroom and Digital Practice (2)
Site Specific Exhibition
Printmaking: Screenprinting and Lithography (B)
Year 2 Options
Art,Buarth Mawr, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, , SY23 1NG
Telephone Department: +44 01970 622460 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021
Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk