BA Joint Honours Fine Art and Art History

Bachelor's degree

In Aberystwyth

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Aberystwyth (Wales)

  • Duration

    3 Years

By combining traditional skills with new technologies (such as computer software and digital photography), our courses aim to give you a competitive edge by broadening and enhancing your portfolio.

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Location

Start date

Aberystwyth (Ceredigion)
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Aberystwyth University, Buarth Mawr, SY23 1NE

Start date

On request

About this course

UCAS Tariff
240 points AS /A level in Art or Art & Design plus satisfactory portfolio

International Baccalaureate
39 including Art at higher level + satisfactory portfolio

European Baccalaureate
65% including Art + satisfactory portfolio

In addition to AS/A levels in arts, languages and humanities subjects, the School welcomes enquiries from students with science and mathematics qualifications.

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Course programme

Apart from being intellectually stimulating and personally rewarding, the study of art has many practical benefits. It fosters a hands-on approach to the challenges of everyday life, encourages creative problem solving, improves the ability to adapt in a changing world, and enhances interpersonal liaison skills. These assets, sought after in today's job market as transferable skills, are actively promoted during your course of study at the School of Art.

As an art historian, you will examine the products of cultures and trace their development in painting and printmaking, in photography and digital art, in book illustration and commercial graphics, as well as ceramics and the plastic arts. In a visual-minded world such as ours, this ability to interpret images and grasp the meaning of signs is becoming increasingly important.

In its approaches to cultures, Art History is interdisciplinary. It involves anthropology, sociology, philosophy, literature, history, as well as cultural and gender studies. As such, it promotes the sort of critical thinking that has many practical applications today. It provides an excellent foundation for careers in education and publishing, in journalism and advertising, and in the administration and conservation of art.

Year 1
• Core Fine Art modules deal with the fundamental skills, techniques, and concepts of Drawing, Illustration, Life Drawing, Life Painting, Painting, Photography, and Printmaking
• Core Art History and Visual Culture modules deal with the Current Issues and Specialist Topics
• Additional optional modules in Fine Art, Museum and Gallery Studies, or another subject offered within the Faculty of arts

Year 2
• Core Fine Art modules deal with technical dexterity and an experimental awareness of materials and methods
• Optional Fine Art modules in the areas of Drawing, Illustration, Life Drawing, Life Painting, Painting, Photography, and Printmaking encourage an initiation of, and a creative response to, personal subject matter and strategies of working
• Specialisation in one area, or combined areas to form a broad-based training
• Core modules in Art History, otherwise a free choice of Art History modules (from the prescribed list and subject to availability)
• A choice of Museum and Gallery Studies modules (on condition that core modules in the subject have been undertaken in Year 1)
• Elective credits may be taken in Fine Art, Art History, Museum and Gallery Studies or another subject's modules (subject to regs)

Year 3
• Specialisation in either one or two areas of Fine Art
• Core modules in Art History, otherwise a free choice of Art History modules (from the prescribed list and subject to availability)
• A choice of Museum and Gallery Studies modules (on condition that core modules in the subject have been undertaken in Year 1)
• Elective credits may be taken in Fine Art, Art History, and another subject's modules

BA Joint Honours Fine Art and Art History

Price on request