With your own studio space, access to specialist facilities, and insights from guest artists and therapists, this course equips you with the skills to pursue careers in art therapy, creative healthcare and a variety of roles in the arts and education sectors.
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Overview
Our Fine Art with Psychology degree offers a blend of creative exploration and psychological insight. It is one of only two undergraduate courses in the UK combining these fields.
Based at the Art House, you’ll have access to your own personal studio space, specialist facilities and a supportive, collaborative environment where you work alongside other arts students. You’ll explore a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and digital media. Through workshops, studio critiques, and one-to-one tutorials, you’ll refine your artistic voice and gain confidence in your work.
You’ll also benefit from engaging guest lectures by contemporary artists and have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in local schools and galleries.
By combining artistic creativity with psychological theory, this course gives you a unique perspective on how the arts can promote well-being and personal development. When you graduate, you’ll be well-equipped to pursue careers in art therapy, creative healthcare, teaching, or a range of other roles in the arts.
Arts facilities
Course content
Each year you will study a mix of arts and psychology modules. In the second and third years you’ll choose from a range of optional modules in both disciplines, so you can steer the degree towards your own interests and ambitions.
Optional modules will run if they receive enough interest. It is not guaranteed that all modules will run every year.
Careers
Our course is designed to equip you with the practical and creative skills needed for a successful career in the arts, education or health and well-being sectors. You'll be able to showcase your versatility as an artist through a diverse portfolio while also developing your communication, project management, and problem-solving abilities – vital skills in any workplace.
Our Fine Arts degree could be the first step towards your career as a:
- Art therapist
- Community arts worker
- Creative health worker
- Counsellor
- Teacher
- Educational consultant
- Graphic designer
- Illustrator
- Printmaker
- Advertising art director
- Gallery curator
- Marketing officer
- Arts educator
Opportunities to progress
Options to progress onto postgraduate study at Worcester include our Creative Media MA, Occupational/Business Psychology MSc and Counselling MSc. If you’re looking to pursue teaching as a career you may be interested in our PGCE Primary or PGCE Secondary (Art and Design) courses.
Student work and studio environment
Course highlights
Teaching and assessment
Fine Art with Psychology draws upon two distinct yet complementary disciplines and the teaching reflects this. Across the course you will experience a variety of methods including Studio Practice, interactive practical workshops, lectures, seminars, fieldwork and practical activities.
Assessment comes in many forms and includes producing artwork portfolios and exhibitions, alongside writing reflective essays, critical commentaries and research assignments.
Teaching and assessment contents
Fine Art with Psychology draws upon two distinct yet complementary disciplines and the teaching reflects this. Across the course you will experience a variety of methods including Studio Practice, interactive practical workshops, lectures, seminars, fieldwork and practical activities.
All these forms enable the application of learning through a combination of practice, discussion, problem-based learning and smaller group activities. Single sessions may involve lectures, workshops, seminars and practical sessions; site based work and formative exercises and there is an expectation of sustained studio practice in art.
Theory is taught through practice to enable you to gain a real understanding on how to apply research in a practical and professional context.
Psychology is normally lecture-seminar based but practical, problem-based learning is also a key component of the delivery, as well as blended and online delivery of course content.
Seminars enable the discussion and understanding of topics covered in lectures and practical session are focussed on developing specific skills and applied individual and group work, and make extensive use of formative feedback to shape your learning and confidence throughout modules.
You will be allocated a Personal Academic Tutor who will be accessible to you throughout your time here via a number of scheduled sessions in each year plus private meetings for help and advice as you need it.
Meet the team
A small selection of the Arts lecturers who teach on this course.
Jess Mathews
Jess Mathews is a curator / producer based in Cardiff, Wales. Her practice-based research often necessitates a complex dialogue between the roles of writer, researcher, explorer, curator and maker. Key to this process, is that the thing that is produced (be that an object, a text, a book, an event, an exhibition, a symposium), remains open to intervention and moments of between.
Dr John Cussans
Dr Cussans is an artist and writer working across the fields of contemporary art, cultural history and practice-led artistic research. His work explores the legacies of colonialism in art, cinema and popular culture from anthropological, psychological and science fictional perspectives.
John has a special interest in the use of diagrams in art and design education and is a member of the Social Morphologies Research Unit (SMRU), a collaboration between anthropologists and artists investigating the creative, political and educational use of diagrams.
Dr. Tanya Carpenter
Tanya is an HCPC registered and BPS Chartered Counselling Psychologist. She is also an Associate Fellow of the BPS with 13 years of clinical and managerial experience at the Priory hospital North London. Tanya has also been in clinical practice within the NHS, private practice and university counselling services.
Tanya also has experience supporting people with Asperger’s, and, as well as having written articles on Mindfulness, she facilitated Mindfulness Groups for 5 years
Jess Mathews
Jess Mathews is a curator / producer based in Cardiff, Wales. Her practice-based research often necessitates a complex dialogue between the roles of writer, researcher, explorer, curator and maker. Key to this process, is that the thing that is produced (be that an object, a text, a book, an event, an exhibition, a symposium), remains open to intervention and moments of between.
Dr John Cussans
Dr Cussans is an artist and writer working across the fields of contemporary art, cultural history and practice-led artistic research. His work explores the legacies of colonialism in art, cinema and popular culture from anthropological, psychological and science fictional perspectives.
John has a special interest in the use of diagrams in art and design education and is a member of the Social Morphologies Research Unit (SMRU), a collaboration between anthropologists and artists investigating the creative, political and educational use of diagrams.
Entry requirements
UCAS tariff points required: 112
| Qualification | Grade |
|---|---|
| A-level | BBC |
| BTEC National Extended Diploma | DMM |
| T-level | Merit |
We do accept Access to HE Diplomas and other qualifications which may not exactly match the combinations above. Work out your estimated points with the UCAS tariff calculator.
Any questions?
If you have any questions about entry requirements, please call our Admissions Office on 01905 855111 or email admissions@worc.ac.uk.
Fees
Fees contents
UK and EU students
The Government has announced that it will increase tuition fees and maintenance loans by 3.1% from the 2025/26 academic cycle. Subject to approval, the University intends to increase our tuition fees in line with this and as per our terms and conditions. This means that from September 2025 the standard fee for full-time home and EU undergraduate students enrolling on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees will be £9,535 per year.
For more details on course fees, please visit our course fees page.
International students
The standard tuition fee for full-time international students enrolling on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees in the 2025/26 academic year is £16,700 per year.
For more details on course fees, please visit our course fees page.
In focus
Jade Blackstock
Whether it’s appearing at festivals across the world or searching for inspiration and hunting down materials for her latest piece, every day is different for Fine Art and Psychology BA (Hons) graduate, and performance artist, Jade Blackstock.
“The University of Worcester changed the course of my life in a really good way,” said Jade. “For me, my University studies were the foundation for the work I’m doing today. If I hadn’t have gone to Worcester I don’t know if I would have been doing performance art. There are so many things that started there and developed there.”
Jade Blackstock
Whether it’s appearing at festivals across the world or searching for inspiration and hunting down materials for her latest piece, every day is different for Fine Art and Psychology BA (Hons) graduate, and performance artist, Jade Blackstock.
“The University of Worcester changed the course of my life in a really good way,” said Jade. “For me, my University studies were the foundation for the work I’m doing today. If I hadn’t have gone to Worcester I don’t know if I would have been doing performance art. There are so many things that started there and developed there.”
Jade Blackstock
Whether it’s appearing at festivals across the world or searching for inspiration and hunting down materials for her latest piece, every day is different for Fine Art and Psychology BA (Hons) graduate, and performance artist, Jade Blackstock.
“The University of Worcester changed the course of my life in a really good way,” said Jade. “For me, my University studies were the foundation for the work I’m doing today. If I hadn’t have gone to Worcester I don’t know if I would have been doing performance art. There are so many things that started there and developed there.”
How to apply
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