Study Schemes

BA  Photography / Art History [WV63]

Academic Year: 2024/2025Joint Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AH11520

Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding

Year 1  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AH11820

Photography Begins

AR11520

Photographic Practice I: Presence/Place

Semester 2
AR11620

Photographic Practice II: Identity/Face

Year 1  Options

Art History joint honours students must take at least one of the following:

Semester 1
AH11320

Pleasure, Power, and Profit: Art in the Long Eighteenth Century

Semester 2
AH11420

Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century

Year 1  Options

Art History joint honours students who do not take both AH11320 and AH11420 can select the remaining 20 credits from the following

Semester 2
AH11220

Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums

AH11720

Representing the Body

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AH20520

Modernisms: Art in the Early Twentieth Century

Semester 2
AH20620

Postmodernism and Contemporary Art

Year 2  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AR24320

Photographic Practice III: Constructed Images

Semester 2
AR24420

Photographic Practice IV: Documentary Storytelling

Year 2  Options

Must take 20 credits

Semester 2
AH24020

Documentary Photography

Year 2  Options

Choose 20 credits of AH2 modules on offer:

Semester 1
AH20120

Enlightenment and Empire: Museums, Knowledge, and Meaning

AH20320

Methods and Materials for Art Historians

AH21620

The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400

Semester 2
AH20020

The Pre-Raphaelites

AH21020

Dissertation Preparation and Professional Practice for Students of Art History

AH24020

Documentary Photography

Final Year  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AR32130

Photography 5 - Photo Directed Practice

Semester 2
AR30130

Exhibition 1: Graduation Show

Final Year  Options

Choose 60 credits of AH3 modules. Students who wish to register for the Dissertation module must have successfully completed AH21020:

Semester 1
AH30120

Enlightenment and Empire: Museums, Knowledge, and Meaning

AH30320

Methods and Materials for Art Historians

AH30620

The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400

AH32000

Dissertation

Semester 2
AH30020

The Pre-Raphaelites

AH32020

Dissertation

AH32720

Curating an Exhibition: Researching, Interpreting and Displaying

AH34020

Documentary Photography

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary