BA

Creative Arts

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Key Facts

WW48

  • UCAS Tariff

    120 - 96

  • Course duration

    3 years

Available for

Further details on entry requirements

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The BA Creative Arts degree at Aberystwyth University provides a unique learning experience that allows you to follow a self-selected pathway through and across our four creative disciplines simultaneously; Fine Art; Creative Writing; Theatre, Performance and Scenography; and Film & Television.

You will select a range of modules from each discipline which will include one cultural contexts module during the three years. As well as your own self selected suite of module options you will follow the suite of interdisciplinary core modules: Interdisciplinary Practice 1 - 6. In these modules you will work together as a group through a series of weekly practice and process based workshops towards a collective student led outcome. You will also conceive and develop a series of independent self – directed interdisciplinary research and practice projects contributing to a portfolio of six projects developed over the 3-year course. You will have the opportunity to exhibit your six projects in two public exhibitions each year: the first at the School of Art and the second at the RIBA award-winning Aberystwyth Arts Centre, staging your site-specific intervention projects in and around the centre in one of the UK’s largest Arts Centre’s and ‘national flagship for the arts’ with over 70,000 visitors a year. 

You will develop key skills in professional practice through the group workshops, your self-directed practice, the event managing opportunities open to the third year and the public exhibitions, giving you the skills you need to move directly into the creative industry.

Course Overview

Why study Creative Arts at Aberystwyth University?

  • Benefit from one of the largest Arts Centres in the UK, Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
  • Learn from practicing artists, authors, arts administrators and performers.
  • Excel with your links with the creative industries locally, nationally and internationally.
  • Experience a different culture and study in one of our partnered Universities across Europe or further afield with the Erasmus + programme or Aberystwyth's International Exchange Programme. 
  • A degree from the well-established department, the School of Art has history that goes back to 1917, making us one of only a few British Universities to be concerned with the Arts and Crafts Movement.
  • Create and learn within state-of-the-art teaching facilities; well-lit studios for painting, dark rooms, print workshops, a MAC suite, as well as lecture theatres and seminar rooms.
Our Staff

Our teaching staff are practicing professionals. As exhibiting artists, publishing researchers and curators, they provide an informed and stimulating learning environment. This ensures that the skills you learn at the School of Art are practice orientated, relevant and applicable.

For further information, visit our individual staff profiles.

Careers

What career opportunities are the for me on completion of this degree?

Our graduates have moved on to become employees in the following:

  • Design Council
  • Arts Council
  • Tate Gallery
  • Royal Academy
  • Carlton Television
  • The Observer
  • Saatchi Gallery
  • Damien Hirst
  • BBC.

Some of our graduates are currently:

  • secondary school teachers
  • art gallery managers and curators
  • children’s book illustrators
  • photographers
  • graphic designers
  • art directors in publishing
  • medical Illustrators.

How does the degree prepare me for my career?

You will gain skills that are highly valued by employers, such as:

  • conceiving creative solutions for specific problems
  • researching, evaluating and organising information
  • communicating clearly in both writing and speech
  • working independently and with others
  • managing time
  • being self-motivated and disciplined.

What work experience opportunities exist whilst studying? 

Click here to find out about the various opportunities that our Aberystwyth University Careers team offer. 

Enhance your employability prospects with GO Wales and YES (Year in Employment Scheme) managed by our Careers department. 

Teaching & Learning

What will I learn?

The breakdown below will provide you with an illustration of what you may study during the three year degree scheme.

In your first year you may discover:

  • art practice
  • theatre
  • scenography
  • fiction and creative writing
  • anthology.

In your second year, you will explore:

  • fine Art
  • film and television production
  • theatre production
  • creative writing
  • cultural contexts of Art.

In your third year you will study:

  • print, photo and paint
  • documentary or film production
  • advance studio practice
  • playwriting
  • the creation of texts in different genres
  • art history
  • your independent research project.

How will I be taught? 

Our programme is delivered through workshops, demonstrations, practicals, lectures, crits, tutorials and field trips.

Assessment is based on course work – portfolio, film, performance. You will also be assigned a personal tutor to whom you may turn for guidance and help, academic-related or pastoral. You should feel free to contact them at any time for help and advice. 

Typical Entry Requirements

UCAS Tariff 120 - 96

A Levels BBB-CCC, plus satisfactory portfolio

GCSE requirements (minimum grade C/4):
English or Welsh

BTEC National Diploma:
DDM-MMM, plus satisfactory portfolio

International Baccalaureate:
30-28, plus satisfactory portfolio

European Baccalaureate:
75%-65% overall, plus satisfactory portfolio

English Language Requirements:
See our Undergraduate English Language Requirements for this course. Pre-sessional English Programmes are also available for students who do not meet our English Language Requirements.

Country Specific Entry Requirements:
International students whose qualification is not listed on this page, can check our Country Specific Entry Requirements for further information.

The University welcomes undergraduate applications from students studying the Access to Higher Education Diploma or T-level qualifications, provided that relevant subject content and learning outcomes are met. We are not able to accept Access to Higher Education Diplomas or T-levels as a general qualification for every undergraduate degree course.
Our inclusive admissions policy values breadth as well as depth of study. Applicants are selected on their own individual merits and offers can vary. If you would like to check the eligibility of your qualifications before submitting an application, please contact the Undergraduate Admissions Office for advice and guidance.

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