Creative Arts
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Apply NowKey Facts
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UCAS Tariff
120 - 96
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Course Length
3 Year
Further details on entry requirements
Apply NowThis unique learning experience at Aberystwyth University 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 1 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 6 projects developed over the 3 year course. You will have the opportunity to exhibit your 6 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.
Student Satisfaction and Employability Results
92% student satisfaction (NSS 2020).
The School of Art is second in the UK for teaching experience and third in the UK for teaching quality (The Good University Guide, The Times & Sunday Times 2018).
97% of our graduates were in work or further study within 6 months, 3% more than Creative Arts and Design graduates nationally, (HESA 2018*)
Overview
Modules
Employability
Learning & Teaching
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
The University welcomes applications from students studying the Access to Higher Education Diploma. 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 are studying a qualification not listed on this page, please get in touch with the Undergraduate Admissions Office for further advice. Details about the country-specific qualifications the University accepts can be found on our country-specific pages. For further information, contact ug-admissions@aber.ac.uk