Bachelor of Arts Creative Arts

This unique learning experience at Aberystwyth University allows students to follow a self-selected pathway through and across four creative disciplines simultaneously; Fine Art, Creative Writing, Theatre, Performance and Scenography, and Film & Television, students will select a range of modules from each discipline which will include 1 cultural contexts module during the three years. As well as a self selected suite of module options they will follow the suite of interdisciplinary core modules; Interdisciplinary Practice 1 - 6. In these modules students will work together as a group through a series of weekly practice and process based workshops towards a collective student led outcome. Students will also conceive and develop a series of independent self – directed interdisciplinary research and practice projects contributing to a portfolio of 6 projects developed over the 3 year course. They will have the opportunity to exhibit 6 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 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. Students will develop key skills in professional practice through the group workshops, self-directed practice, the event managing opportunities open to the third year and the public exhibitions, giving students the skills needed to move directly into the creative industry.

Minimum Level of Education Completed

1-Year Post-Secondary Certificate

Minimum GPA

60.0%

Minimum Language Test Scores

IELTS

6.5

TOEFL

93.0

PTE

62.0

This program requires valid language test results

Applicants interested in applying for direct admission, but are yet to complete an acceptable language test, can do so, but must provide valid results before receiving a final offer letter.

This program offers conditional admissions

• Min IELTS overall: 4 Min Listening: 4, Min Reading: 4, Min Speaking: 4, Min Writing: 4