BA Fine Art

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- A broad understanding of developing key concepts and formal approaches to art making in relation to individual responses to concerns identified within the complex nature of contemporary art practices
- A continued examination of the histories (social and cultural) and traditions that further assist in locating the individuals practice within the historical continuum and the contextual framework, both within and beyond, an expanded definition of fine art practice.
- A developing understanding of how this critical discourse informs the productive fusion of theoretical rigour and expressive speculation in refined resolved practice based studio work.
- A growing ability to identify and evaluate the most appropriate use of different materials, processes and environments in approaches to problem solving, independently and /or collaboratively, associated with an emerging individual practice.
- An ability to effectively communicate critical reflection on their work and locate this in a contextual framework of fine art contemporary practice.
- An understanding of the principles of ‘a deep approach to learning’ and to adopt strategies and methodologies to engage with these principles.
- An ability to structure a coherent critically informed argument in oral and written forms.
- An ability to develop skills and strategies as independent learners
- An ability to interact effectively with others.
- An ability to show initiative and resourcefulness in the planning and resolution of self-initiated projects

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to the subject area(s) studied;
- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
- decision making.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of the discipline/profession to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
- work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;
- demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the discipline;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion.