2021/22 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Fine Art with Contemporary Cultural Theory

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:

Optional modules:

Candidates may study 20 credits from the following optional modules:

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:

Optional modules:

Candidates must study 20-40 credits from the following optional modules:

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:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 0-20 credits from the following optional modules:

OR

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study 0-20 credits of discovery modules

Last updated: 03/12/2021 12:04:08

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