BA Creative Writing and Fine Art [WW18]
Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015
Duration 3 years
Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence Scholarship;
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)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning Creative Writing
Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
Year 1 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Studio Practice
Year 1 Options
Choose one of the following
Year 1 Options
Choose 40 credits
Art in Wales
Pleasure, Power, and Profit: Art in the Long Eighteenth Century
Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding
Media Exploration
Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums
Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century
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 (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
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
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following:
Year 2 Options
Final Year Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Exhibition Preparation (1)
Exhibition: Graduation Show
Final Year Options
You must choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following:
Final Year Options
You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:
Reading Theory / Reading Text
Victorian Childhoods
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Haunting Texts
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Post-Colonial African Literature in English
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
English and Creative Writing,Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
Telephone Department: +44 01970 622534 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021
Email: english@aber.ac.uk