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 with Contemporary Cultural Theory
The Fine Art with Contemporary Cultural Theory programme at the University of Leeds invites you to explore and challenge what you understand by art by engaging with a broad array of artistic practices and understanding their cultural and theoretical development as the creation of ‘meaningful’ objects within emerging and often contested discourses. In a world requiring new forms of consciousness, perception and insight, we approach fine art as a constellation of materials, histories, practices, concepts, so that we can consider what art, with its increasingly complex myriad of practices and media, can meaningfully continue to contribute both culturally and socially. This is enabled by working in an interdisciplinary space, alongside other artists and cultural theorists, through both core and optional modules linked across the full programme of study. Within this active space there is a real emphasis on the interconnections between the creation of art, its theoretical importance as a mode of ‘making’ meaning as well as the consolidation and questioning of its place within the broader interconnectivity of cultural and creative practices. This programme therefore offers an active and creative exploration of art’s capacity to illuminate the wider frameworks, both practice-led and academic, that shape our culture 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, theoretically and culturally confident, with a broad range of relevant and transferrable skills, as both makers and academics.
Throughout the course, you will also have opportunities to contribute to the creative community, to build networks in the city and beyond, to exhibit your work regularly and to 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 has led our students to successfully 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 with Contemporary Cultural Theory programme thereby practices at the intersection of making, thinking, exploring and researching, enabling you to understand your place as artists in the wider cultural sphere and thereby actively and creatively participate within the ever-changing and challenging field of contemporary culture and societal impacts.
(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)
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Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF1003 | Introduction to Cultural Analysis 1 | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | PFP |
| ARTF1004 | Introduction to Cultural Analysis II | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | PFP |
| ARTF1210 | Introduction to Practice | 40 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | PFP |
| ARTF1211 | Practice 2 | 40 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | PFP |
(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)
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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.
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 1:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF2044 | Cinema and Culture | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2055 | Variant Modernism | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2064 | Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2210 | Absence, Representation, Violence | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules in Basket 2:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF2049 | The State of Utopia | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2051 | Seeing in Asia | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF2092 | The Museum | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ARTF2094 | Art, Power and Portraiture | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules in either Basket 3 or Basket 4:
Basket 3
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF2047 | Image, Music, Text: Reading Roland Barthes | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2061 | Encountering Contemporary Art in a Global Context | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2111 | Bodies of Difference: Gender, Power and the Visual Arts | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2205 | Renaissance / Anti-Renaissance: Critical Approaches to Early Modern Art in Europe | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Basket 4
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF2003 | The New York School | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2052 | Showing Asia | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2074 | African Art I: Context Representation Signification | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF2128 | The Avant-Gardes | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules
(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.
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules: - Practice 5 - 20 Credits - Practice, towards exhibition - 40 Credits
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF3060 | Dissertation | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
Candidates may study up to 20 credits from either Basket 1 or Basket 2 (indicative, including):
Basket 1
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF3056 | Unmaking Things: Materials and Ideas in the European Renaissance | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3064 | Art, Ecology and Empire | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3166 | The Ripped and the Raw: Aspects of European Art 1945-1960 | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3168 | Africa and the Atlantic World: History, Historiography and the Visual Arts | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 2
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF3003 | Deconstruction Reading Politics | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3034 | From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3063 | Postcolonial Feminisms | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF3077 | Humanity, Animality and Globality | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules
Last updated: 01/07/2024 15:34:16
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