2020/21 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: | Chris Taylor | Contact address: | c.a.taylor@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 360
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:
Students must study a total of 120 credits per academic year.
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 | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF1051 | Studio Work 2 | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates may study 20 credits from the following optional modules:
ARTF1023 | Cultural History | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ARTF1026 | Cinema and Media History | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 |
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) | |
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 | Not running in 202021 | |
ARTF2054 | State of the Art: Contemporary Perspectives in Art, Science and Technology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF2055 | Variant Modernism | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2056 | Video Art: An Introduction to Moving Image Practice | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ARTF2057 | Racist Pasts/Radical Futures | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2058 | Home, Exile and Displacement - Histories and Representations of Belonging in the 20th Century | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF2060 | Ecologies of Medieval Art | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ARTF2064 | Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2065 | Post-Colonial Critique | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
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) | |
ARTF2117 | The Avant Gardes | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CSER2206 | Developing Your Professional Identity: Preparing for a Career in Within The Arts, Heritage and Creative Industries | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CSER2207 | Students Into Schools (Arts Humanities and Culture) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
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 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3014 | Making Sense of Sound | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF3016 | Soviet Socialist Realism | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ARTF3034 | From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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 202021 | |
ARTF3058 | Reading Sexual Difference | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF3059 | Critical approaches to photography | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3063 | Postcolonial Feminisms | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3077 | Humanity, Animality and Globality | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3099 | Antique Dealers: The Market for 'Decorative Art' from Curiosities to Retro | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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
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