BA Creative Arts [WW48]
Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 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:
Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
Literature And The Sea
Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
Introduction to Poetry
Year 1 Options
Category 5: Cultural Context
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Site Specific Practice
Site Specific Exhibition
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:
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
Shaping Plots
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
Final Year Options
Category 2: Film and TV Production
Final Year Options
Category 3a: Theatre and Performance
Final Year Options
Final Year Options
Category 4: Creative Writing
Independent Research Project
Writing and Place
Writing Crime Fiction
Independent Research Project
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