2020/21 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue
MA Fine Art
Programme code: | MA-AH/FA-FT | UCAS code: | |
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Duration: | 12 Months | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Chris Taylor | Contact address: | c.a.taylor@leeds.ac.uk |
This programme is available part time (programme code MA-AH/FA-PT). Please contact the Programme Manager for further information.
Total credits: 180
Entry requirements:
Minimum of 2:1 at Undergraduate level in an appropriate subject area or equivalent experience and portfolio.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies
Programme specification:
Programme Aims:
At the end of the programme students should be able to:
- recognise the equal importance of practical experimentation and theoretical reflection;
- increase critical and analytical skills and identify focus in studio work;
- undertake learning experiences appropriate to the development, critique and understanding of the professional artist within the post-modern environment;
- develop an understanding of contemporary art practice and discourses identifying and locating their own personal positions within the current context of art and theory;
- engage with a wide variety of practical and theoretical concerns in the production, distribution and criticism of art work;
- organise, prepare, curate, mount, and document an exhibition of practical work produced during the course;
- work effectively in a group situation being able to organise and implement the variety of practical and professional skills required to mount such an exhibition.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ARTF5007M | MA Exhibition | 50 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5101M | Advanced Research Skills 1 | 5 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF5102M | Advanced Research Skills 2 | 5 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5217M | MA Fine Art Dissertation | 30 credits | 1 Jan to 30 Sep | |
ARTF5551M | Studio Practice | 60 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the MA optional array approved by the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies below:
ARTF5001M | Derrida and Deconstruction | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF5003M | Reading Sexual Difference | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5009M | Making Sense of Sound | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5011M | Jewish Museums and the Display of Cultural Difference | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5012M | The Margins of Medieval Art | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF5028M | Independent Directed Study (for full-time students) | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5031M | Unfinished Business: Trauma, Cultural Memory and the Holocaust | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5032M | Movies, Migrants and Diasporas | 30 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ARTF5051M | Intersecting Practices: Questioning the Intersection of Contemporary Art and Heritage | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5052M | Adventures in the Archive | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5059M | Critical Approaches to Photography | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF5063M | Postcolonial Feminisms | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF5069M | Art & Money: the modern and contemporary art markets | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5071M | Encountering Things: Art and Entanglement in Anglo-Saxon England | 30 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ARTF5073M | The Origins of Postcolonial England | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5189M | Procuring Representation: Contemporary Art, East Asia, Gender | 30 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ARTF5191M | Anthropology, Art and Representation | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5193M | Humanity, Animality and Globality | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF5195M | Unmaking Things: Materials and Ideas in the European Renaissance | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
EDUC5039M | Creative Inquiry, Communication and Learning | 30 credits | 1 May to 30 Sep |
Last updated: 24/05/2021 09:31:13
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