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BA Fine Art

Aberystwyth University

Institution
Aberystwyth University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Fine Art
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
W100
Typical offer
A-level BBB

Entry requirements

A level: BBB-BCC to include B in Art or related subject, plus satisfactory portfolio IB: 30-28, plus satisfactory portfolio

About this course

BA in Fine Art. Core topics include design and creative practice. The School of Art is a government-accredited art museum — one of only two such schools in the UK — holding a collection of around 20,000 prints, photographs, drawings, paintings and ceramics. Students curate an exhibition in the school's galleries as part of the degree scheme.

Modules

  • Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding
  • Media Exploration
  • Studio Practice
  • Contemporary Painting
  • Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums
  • Illustration: Foundations to Storytelling
  • Life Studies Begins
  • Photography: Introduction to Darkroom and Digital Practice
  • Printmaking: Material Transformations
  • Representing the Body
  • Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century
  • Digital Skills
  • Documentary Photography
  • Drawn to Order: British Illustration since 1800
  • Modernisms: Art in the Early Twentieth Century
  • Portraiture:Identity
  • Postmodernism and Contemporary Art
  • The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400
  • The Pre-Raphaelites
  • Illustration: Binding Stories (1)
  • Illustration: Binding Stories (2)
  • Illustration: Worlds and Characters (1)
  • Illustration: Worlds and Characters (2)
  • Life Studies 1
  • Life Studies 2
  • Painting: Practice Development (1)
  • Painting: Practice Development (2)
  • Painting: Studio Practice
  • Painting: Studio Practice
  • Photography 1
  • Photography 2
  • Photography: Advanced Darkroom and Digital Practice (1)
  • Photography: Advanced Darkroom and Digital Practice (2)
  • Printmaking: Etching and Relief Printing (A)
  • Printmaking: Etching and Relief Printing (B)
  • Printmaking: Screenprinting and Lithography (A)
  • Printmaking: Screenprinting and Lithography (B)
  • Site Specific Exhibition
  • Site Specific Practice
  • Exhibition Preparation (2)
  • Exhibition: Graduation Show
  • The Professional Artist
  • Curating an Exhibition: Researching, Interpreting and Displaying
  • Portraiture:Identity
  • The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400