B.A. Creative Writing and Art History

Bachelor's degree

In Aberystwyth

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Aberystwyth (Wales)

The BA in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth Universitys Institute of Literature, Languages and Creative Arts, provides exciting and diverse opportunities for writing across a broad variety of forms and genres. As well as being able to study this as a Single Honours Scheme (W801) you can study it alongside a range of other subjects within the Institute. The following Joint Honours combinations are currently available:

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Location

Start date

Aberystwyth (Ceredigion)
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Aberystwyth University, Old College, King Street, SY23 2AX

Start date

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About this course

English Language Requirements Take IELTS test

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Subjects

  • Options
  • Art History
  • Creative Writing
  • Art
  • Writing
  • Joint
  • Writing Skills
  • European Art
  • Prints And Drawings
  • British Painting

Course programme

Course Content

Year 1 Core (40 Credits) Creative Writing students must take the following 2 modules:

Semester 1
  • Introduction To Fiction WR10320
Semester 2
  • Introduction To Poetry WR10420

Year 1 Core (40 Credits) Art history joint honours students must take the following:

Semester 1
  • Art In Europe 1: From Rococo To Romanticism, 1700-1800 AH11320
Semester 2
  • Art In Europe 2: From Romanticism To Early Modernism, 1800-1900 AH11420

Year 1 Options Creative Writing and Art History students may choose the following module:

Year 1 Options You may choose your remaining credits from any Level 1 module from Departments within the Institute of Literature, Languages and Creative Arts

Year 1 Options Students may take

Semester 1
  • Landscape, Nature And Art AH10510
  • Prints And Drawings: An Introduction To Graphic History AH10710
  • Exploring The School Of Art Collections AH11220
Semester 2
  • Representing The Body AH10610
  • Aspects Of British Painting 1951-1966 AH10810
  • Dark Materials: Race, Magic, Deception And The Photographic Trace AH11010

Year 2 Core (40 Credits) Art History Joint Honours students must take the following core modules:

Semester 1
  • Art In Europe And America: Modernism 1900-1950 AH20520
Semester 2
  • Practices And Theories Of Art Since 1960 AH20620

Year 2 Core (20 Credits) Creative Writing students must take the following module:

Semester 1
  • Learning From The Novelists WR20220

Year 2 Core (50 Credits) During their second year, students must take the following two modules:

Semester 1
  • Professional Practice For Students Of Art History AH20400
  • Art In Europe And America: Modernism 1900-1950 AH20520
Semester 2
  • Professional Practice For Students Of Art History AH20410
  • Practices And Theories Of Art Since 1960 AH20620

Year 2 Options Art History Joint Honours students (except WV13 art history + fine art) who wish to pursue the final year dissertation module must take the following module:

Semester 1
  • Professional Practice For Students Of Art History AH20400
Semester 2
  • Professional Practice For Students Of Art History AH20410

Year 2 Options Art History Joint Honours students may take up to 20 elective credits from the part 2 AH modules on offer:

Semester 1
  • Drawn To Order: British Illustration Since 1800 AH30510
  • Italian Art - 1300-1700 AH32620
  • The Gothic Imagination AH32820
  • Abstraction: Practice, Theory And History, 1913 To The Present AH33220
Semester 2
  • History Of Photography 2: Issues In 20c Photography AH30820
  • Art In Wales AH31420
  • British Landscape:nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries AH32110
  • Staging An Exhibition: Researching, Writing And Displaying AH32720

Year 2 Options During their second year, students must choose at least 20 credits from among the list of modules with the prefix TC/FM/TP:

Year 3 Options During their third year, students must choose at least 20 credits from among the list of modules with the prefix TC/FM/TP and 20 credits from the list with the prefix WR/EN

Semester 1
  • Reading Theory/ Reading Text EN30930
  • Scriptwriting FM33800
  • Playwriting TP34600
  • Textual Interventions WR30230
  • The Writing Project WR30700
  • Writing And Place WR30930
Semester 2
  • Scriptwriting FM33840
  • Playwriting TP34640
  • The Writing Project WR30730
  • Writing Science Fiction And Fantasy WR31430

Final Year Options Final year students should select at least 50 credits of AH modules. Students who wish to register for the Dissertation module must have successfully completed AH20420:

Semester 1
  • Drawn To Order: British Illustration Since 1800 AH30510
  • Dissertation AH32000
  • Italian Art - 1300-1700 AH32620
  • The Gothic Imagination AH32820
  • Abstraction: Practice, Theory And History, 1913 To The Present AH33220
Semester 2
  • History Of Photography 2: Issues In 20c Photography AH30820
  • Art In Wales AH31420
  • Dissertation AH32020
  • British Landscape:nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries AH32110
  • Staging An Exhibition: Researching, Writing And Displaying AH32720

B.A. Creative Writing and Art History

Price on request