2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Fine Art with History of Art

Total credits: 360

Entry requirements:

Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry

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:

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

Art & Design

Programme specification:

The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme in 2023/24 or before. For students entering the programme from September 2024 or after, you can find the details of your programme: BA Fine Art with History of Art (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

The Fine Art with History of Art 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 historical 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, and to consider what art has already and can continue to contribute to the most pressing questions we are faced with today. This is enabled by working in an interdisciplinary space, alongside other artists, historians of art 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, the consolidation and questioning of its practices and modes of display, as well as its creation as a subject of important historical and theoretical study. 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, history 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 aware 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 supports students to 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 History of Art students programme thereby operates at the intersection of making, thinking, exploring and researching, enabling you to understand your place as artists and to actively and creatively participate within both the contemporary and historical ‘worlds’.

Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory 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 will be required to 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:

Optional modules:

Candiates may study 0-20 credits of the following optional modules

OR

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study 20 credits of discovery modules

Last updated: 22/07/2024 15:56:28

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