2017/18 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Fine Art with Contemporary Cultural Theory
Programme code: | BA-FA/CS | UCAS code: | 3E5Z |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Nick Thurston | Contact address: | n.thurston@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 365
Entry requirements:
AAB-ABB or equivalent qualifications plus portfolio
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
Programme specification:
The nature of contemporary art practice presents many challenges for the Fine Art student in a globalised and rapidly changing context of new technologies, industries, media and communication systems. This degree extends the long established traditions of Fine Art at the University of Leeds which have, since the foundation of the School in 1949, become internationally renowned for promoting the necessity of an intellectually and historically enriched environment for Fine Art practice. Students will be supported to explore new directions for contemporary art in terms of the continuing legacy of conceptual art, performance, new media, digitisation, writing and other new forms as well as the impact of globalisation on the art world and its institutions. Through studio practice and academic study they will develop an understanding of relevant aspects of contemporary philosophy, theories of the image and gaze, media forms, as well as engaging with questions of gender, sexuality, difference, subjectivity, identity, ethnicity, relations to the human and non-human other, issues of science and of new technologies.
This unique combination of Fine Art practice and a humanities and arts oriented Cultural Studies programme will enable students to support their studio work with a range of modules that have profound relevance to the debates and directions emerging in the broad field of contemporary art. Fine Art at the University of Leeds is taught by a dedicated staff team of internationally active practitioners, supported by full-time technicians and regular visiting artists, and offers students the chance to study abroad and gain work experience in professional contexts. Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds offers the student access to film and media studies, philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis, studies of feminist, postcolonial and queer gender cultures, introductions to major thinkers such as Adorno, Freud, Barthes, Foucault, Benjamin, Cixous, Kristeva, Warburg and Deleuze. This combination of cultural theory and creative practice enables the student to develop practical making skills and a sophisticated understanding of their own artistic concerns, both built upon a rigorous foundation of knowledge about the academic humanities that is fit for the future.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ARTF1003 | Introduction to Cultural Analysis 1 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF1004 | Introduction to Cultural Analysis II | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF1050 | Introduction to Studio Work Pre-requisite for: ARTF1051 | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF1051 | Studio Work 2 Pre-requisite for: ARTF2040 | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ODLM1013 | Studying in a Digital Age (Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies) | 5 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates may study 20 credits from the following optional modules:
ARTF1023 | Cultural History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF1026 | Cinema and Media History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Or Candidates may study 20 credits of discovery modules:
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ARTF2040 | Studio Work | 60 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ARTF2127 | Keywords | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates must study 20-40 credits from the following optional modules:
ARTF2003 | The New York School | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF2008 | Spaces of Chinese Calligraphy | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
ARTF2028 | The Wanderers. Critical Realism in Nineteenth Century Russia | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2044 | Cinema and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2047 | Image, Music, Text: Reading Roland Barthes | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF2049 | The State of Utopia | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2051 | Seeing in Asia | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2052 | Showing Asia | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF2053 | Venice: Image and Imagination | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF2055 | Variant Modernism | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2064 | Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2065 | Post-Colonial Critique | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2069 | The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2074 | African Art I: Context Representation Signification | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF2207 | Power and Practice | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates may study the following optional module
ARTF2800 | Careers Preparation for Arts and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
OR
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study 0-20 credits of discovery modules:
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ARTF3060 | Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ARTF3205 | Studio Work | 60 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 0-20 credits from the following optional modules:
ARTF3003 | Deconstruction Reading Politics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF3014 | Making Sense of Sound | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
ARTF3016 | Soviet Socialist Realism | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3034 | From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF3042 | Cultural Diversity in Museum and Material Culture - Case Study | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF3054 | Anthropology, Art and Representation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF3057 | The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
ARTF3058 | Reading Sexual Difference | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3059 | Critical approaches to photography | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3077 | Humanity, Animality and Globality | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF3079 | Utopia: Demanding the Impossible! | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF3114 | The Births and Deaths of a Chinese Renaissance | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
ARTF3156 | The 'Rematerialisation' of Art? (circa 1960 - present) | 20 credits | Not running in 201718 | |
ARTF3168 | Africa and the Atlantic World: History, Historiography and the Visual Arts | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3173 | Movies, Migrants and Diasporas | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
OR
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study 0-20 credits of discovery modules
Last updated: 27/03/2017
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