Program Overview

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.

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.