B.A. History / Fine Art
Bachelor's degree
In Aberystwyth
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Bachelor's degree
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Aberystwyth (Wales)
This joint honours BA in History and Fine Art gives you a valuable opportunity to study two distinct but highly complementary disciplines history and fine art. As you progress, you will discover that each part of this joint honours degree course informs your understanding of the other; in particular you will see the ways which history, in its visual and non-visual forms, can influence practice based art.
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English Language Requirements Take IELTS test
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Subjects
- Art
- Joint
- Colour photography
- Computer Graphics
- Arts
- Digital Media
- Paintings
- Drawings
- History
- Humanities
Course programme
The School can offer you excellent facilities for the study of painting, the graphic arts, and photography, with studio facilities for painting, printmaking in intaglio, lithography, screen and relief printing, typography, black and white and colour photography, computer graphics, and most forms of reprographics.
As a student at Aberystwyth you will have access to a superb range of visual arts, including an extensive collection of original artworks. The School is also an Accredited Museum that runs its own galleries and houses a collection of some 20,000 prints, photographs, drawings and watercolours, ceramics and decorative art dating from the fifteenth century to the present day. The Ceramics Gallery in the University Arts Centre houses an important collection of twentieth-century studio pottery.
Our lecturers include practising artists, historians and theorists, who are highly regarded in their respective fields. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (2008) 65% of research submitted by the Department was rated as being internationally recognised, with 25% being rated world-leading or internationally excellent.
In addition to the University library, as an Art student at Aberystwyth you will enjoy unrivalled access to the National Library of Wales. One of only five copyright libraries in the United Kingdom, with over six million books, maps, prints and manuscripts, it is situated within a five-minute walk of the Department. It holds a fine collection of pictures and photographs in original and digital media, ranging from paintings and drawings on paper and canvas to cartoons and book illustrations.
B.A. History / Fine Art