The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme in 2023/2024 or before. For students entering the programme from September 2024 or after, you can find the details of your programme: href="https://webprod3.leeds.ac.uk/catalogue/dynprogrammes.asp?Y=202425&P=BA-AF%2F3Y-R">BA Fine Art(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)
The Fine Art programme at the University of Leeds invites you to explore and challenge your idea of art by engaging with a broad array of artistic practices, theoretical ideas, and historical contexts. In a world requiring new forms of consciousness, perception and insight, we approach fine art as a constellation of materials, practices, concepts, and creative methods for addressing some of the most pressing questions we are faced with today. This is enabled by working in an interdisciplinary space, alongside other artists, historians of art and cultural theorists, through both core and optional modules linked across the full programme of study. Within this active space there is an emphasis on the interconnections between art, its larger social dynamics and its creation as a subject of important historical and theoretical study. Our course offers an active and creative exploration of art’s capacity to illuminate the wider frameworks that shape our culture, history and society, such as those of ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality, identity, and our relations to nature and the environment. You will complete the programme equipped to act in the world as well-informed artists and creative global citizens, innovators in your respective fields of making, and socially aware with a broad range of relevant and transferrable skills.
Throughout the course, you will also have opportunities to contribute to the creative community, build networks in the city and beyond, exhibit your work regularly and discover what kind of practitioner you want to be. This is supported by various professional development activities, a regular Visiting Artists Talks programme and participation in local and regional artist-led spaces, museums, galleries and heritage venues. We offer an Industry Placement Programme which supports students to undertake work placements in the UK and internationally, whilst our Study Year Abroad programme at comparable international institutions has provided valuable experiences for many in our community. Our Fine Art programme thereby operates at the intersection of making, thinking, exploring and researching, enabling you to understand your place as an artist within complex cultural, historical and social contexts.
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Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF1210 | Introduction to Practice | 40 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF1211 | Practice 2 | 40 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF1300 | Ways of Seeing | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF1301 | Ways of Thinking Seeing | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF2040 | Studio Work | 60 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
Candidates will be required to study 40-60 credits from the following optional modules
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF2003 | The New York School | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2044 | Cinema and Culture | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2047 | Image, Music, Text: Reading Roland Barthes | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2049 | The State of Utopia | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2051 | Seeing in Asia | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2052 | Showing Asia | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2055 | Variant Modernism | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2061 | Encountering Contemporary Art in a Global Context | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2064 | Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2069 | The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2074 | African Art I: Context Representation Signification | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2092 | The Museum | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ARTF2094 | Art, Power and Portraiture | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2111 | Bodies of Difference: Gender, Power and the Visual Arts | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2128 | The Avant-Gardes | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2205 | Renaissance / Anti-Renaissance: Critical Approaches to Early Modern Art in Europe | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2210 | Absence, Representation, Violence | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CSER2206 | Developing Your Professional Identity: Preparing for a Career in Within The Arts, Heritage and Creative Industries | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Students may take 0-20 credits of discovery modules
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF3020 | Professional Practice Level 3 | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF3060 | Dissertation | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
| ARTF3205 | Studio Work | 60 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
Last updated: 01/07/2024 15:02:56
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