The foundation pathway provides students with non-standard entry points to progress onto the BA (Hons) Fine Art programme. The foundation year allows you to develop skills across a range of media and introduces creative best practice in preparation for the first year of the undergraduate programme. During the foundation year you will have the opportunity to explore creative processes relevant to visual design, animation, illustration, print-making, fine art, and photography.
Upon successful completion of the foundation course, you will join the undergraduate BA (Hons) Fine ...
The foundation pathway provides students with non-standard entry points to progress onto the BA (Hons) Fine Art programme. The foundation year allows you to develop skills across a range of media and introduces creative best practice in preparation for the first year of the undergraduate programme. During the foundation year you will have the opportunity to explore creative processes relevant to visual design, animation, illustration, print-making, fine art, and photography.<br/><br/>Upon successful completion of the foundation course, you will join the undergraduate BA (Hons) Fine Art programme equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to successfully complete an undergraduate degree.<br/><br/><br/>- **Studio culture.** Our main teaching and learning space is the studio and we place emphasis on creating a friendly, supportive, vibrant, creative, critical and reflective studio environment.<br/><br/><br/>- **Thinking through doing.** This is a practice-based programme, which means that critical enquiry is at the heart of making work. We encourage you to be exploratory and experimental, to think through making and to embrace uncertainty and not knowing.<br/><br/><br/>- **Facilities.** You will have inductions in and access to a wide range of specialist workshop facilities to advance your artistic enquiry, including letterpress and printmaking, ceramics, woodworking, metal, video, audio, XR and 3D printing.<br/><br/><br/>- ** Interdisciplinary.** Studio practice modules and the common challenges and dissertation modules offer you opportunities to work in interdisciplinary research areas across the arts, humanities and sciences.<br/><br/><br/>- **Degree show.** Showcase your final project in a faculty-wide exhibition alongside students from our 12 art and design degrees. The Degree Show is your chance to introduce friends and family, your new creative network and art community, prospective employers and the general public to your work.<br/>
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Course Details
Information
Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
4 Years
Start Date
16/09/2024
Campus
Main Site
Application deadline
Provider Details
Codes/info
Course Code
W105
Institution Code
P60
Points of Entry
Foundation
A level32-48 points from a minimum of 2 A Levels UCAS Tariff32 48 From a minimum of 2 A Levels Scottish Higher32-48 UCAS tariff points Access to HE DiplomaP:45 Pass a name Access to Higher Education Diploma (Preferably Art and Design). International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme24 Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)PPP From any subject Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)32-48 points from any subjects Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)PP From any subject Scottish Advanced Higher32-48 UCAS points from a minimum of 2 Advanced Highers Extended ProjectConsidered in combination Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (first teaching September 2015)Considered in combination Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)Considered in combination T LevelPass (D or E) Any subject considered |
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