BA Fine Art (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

Programme overview

Entry requirements

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Programme specification

The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme from September 2024. For students who entered the programme before September 2024, you can find the details of your programme: BA Fine Art


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.

Year 1

(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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Compulsory Modules

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Year 2

(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.

Optional Modules

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 1:

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 2:

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules in either Basket 3 or Basket 4:

Basket 3

Basket 4

Discovery Modules

Candidates may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules

Year 3

(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.

Compulsory Modules

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules: - Practice 5 - 20 Credits - Practice, towards exhibition - 40 Credits

Optional Modules

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from either Basket 1 or Basket 2 (indicative, including):

Basket 1

Basket 2

Discovery Modules

Candidates may instead, study 20 credits of discovery modules

Last updated: 29/04/2024 11:02:31

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