Study Schemes
BA Creative Writing and Fine Art [WW18]
Academic Year: 2023/2024Joint Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning Creative Writing Part 1
Beginning Creative Writing Part 2
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Drawing: Looking, Seeing, Thinking
Painting: Looking, Seeing, Thinking
Year 1 Options
Choose one of the following
Year 1 Options
Choose 20 credits
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Beginning the Novel
Year 2 Options
Joint honours Fine Art students should select a minimum of 40 credits of art practice from the following:
Painting 1
Painting 2
Photography 1
Photography 2
Life Studies 1
Printmaking 1: Etching and Relief Printing
Printmaking 2: Etching and Relief Printing
Interdisciplinary Practice 3
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
Professional Practice for Students of Art
Interdisciplinary Practice 4
Year 2 Options
Choose at least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits from the following:
Year 2 Options
You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:
Classical Drama and Myth
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Literary Modernisms
Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
Contemporary Queer Fiction
In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Fine Art students must take AR30130 in Semester 2 of the final year
Exhibition 1: Graduation Show
Final Year Options
You may choose up to 20 credits from the following:
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Fine Art students should select from the following modules for their remaining final year credits:
Life Studies 3
Painting 5 - Paint Directed Practice
Printmaking 5 - Print Directed Practice
Photography 5 - Photo Directed Practice
Book Illustration 3
Interdisciplinary Practice 5
Interdisciplinary Practice 6
Final Year Options
You must choose at least 40 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from the following:
Department of English & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
Tel: Department: +44(0) 1970 621537 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021 Fax: (01970) 622530 Email: english@aber.ac.uk Facebook
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary