BA Creative Writing and Fine Art
About this course
BA in English with Creative Writing and Fine Art, combining literary study with visual art practice. Core topics include Research Methods and Design & Creative Practice. The School of Art holds Accredited Museum Status from Arts Council England, and the programme includes international study visits plus a final-year writing retreat at a country house in mid-Wales.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB-BCC to include B in Art or related subject, plus satisfactory portfolio IB: 30-28, plus satisfactory portfolio
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What students say
Based on about 7 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 93%
- Learning opportunities: 82%
- Assessment and feedback: 82%
- Academic support: 85%
- Organisation and management: 85%
- Learning resources: 96%
- Student voice: 80%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 15 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 100%
What graduates do next
Based on about 8 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 40%
- Working and studying: 30%
- Unemployed: 10%
Most common jobs
- Elementary occupations: 20%
- Media Professionals: 15%
- Sales occupations: 15%
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 10%
- Managers, directors and senior officials: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 70%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 35%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 25%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 75 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 10%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 5%
- East Midlands: 3%
- West Midlands: 25%
- East of England: 3%
- London: 4%
- South East: 6%
- South West: 3%
- Wales: 41%
- Scotland: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 15 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 95%
- Other HE qualification: 5%
Modules
- Beginning Creative Writing
- Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
- Studio Practice
- American Literature 1800-2000
- Ancestral Voices
- Critical Practice
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- Introduction to Poetry
- Language Awareness for TESOL
- Literature And The Sea
- Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now
- Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- We Have Always Been Here: Queer Writing from Antiquity to the Present
- Art in Wales
- Contemporary Painting
- Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums
- Illustration: Foundations to Storytelling
- Life Studies Begins
- Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding
- Media Exploration
- Photography: Introduction to Darkroom and Digital Practice
- Pleasure, Power, and Profit: Art in the Long Eighteenth Century
- Printmaking: Material Transformations
- Representing the Body
- Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century
- Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- Digital Skills
- 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
- 'The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne': Medieval Models of Literary Production
- A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- Adventures with Poetry
- Reading the Classroom: from the Nursery to the University
- Shaping Plots
- Short stories: Grit and Candour
- Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- Writing Selves
- Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1
- Literary Geographies
- Literary Modernisms
- Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- Literature since the '60s
- Place and Self
- TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques
- Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- Exhibition Preparation (1)
- Exhibition: Graduation Show
- Crisis Writing
- Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
- Independent Research Project
- Literatures of Surveillance
- Poetry for today
- Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- Writing Crime Fiction
- Writing Horror
- Writing and Place
- Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
- Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
- Haunting Texts
- Post-Colonial African Literature in English
- Reading Theory / Reading Text
- TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
- The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
- Victorian Childhoods
- Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Creative Writing and Fine Art at Aberystwyth University earn?
The median salary is £25,000 after 15 months, £16,500 after 3 years, £23,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £19,000 and £26,500. The £23,000 median after five years is £500 less than the UK median for Creative writing.
What do graduates of BA Creative Writing and Fine Art at Aberystwyth University do next?
70% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Creative Writing and Fine Art at Aberystwyth University?
93% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Creative Writing and Fine Art at Aberystwyth University?
The typical offer is BBB at A level. The average entrant had 133 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA Creative Writing and Fine Art at Aberystwyth University?
100% of students continued into their second year, and 0% left higher education.