BA (Hons) Fine Art & Philosophy

CAREER POTENTIAL:

This combination means you are very well placed to choose from a range of career options. These may include: advertising, artist, arts administration, broadcast and digital media production, media research, museum and gallery curation, journalism, publishing, teaching, and writing. The course also prepares you for postgraduate study and doctoral research in the visual arts, philosophy, cultural studies, and other related disciplines.

COURSE CONTENT:

This course combines the breadth, stimulation and flexibility of the BA Fine Art course with detailed study of philosophy. Fine art and philosophy are taught as interrelated subjects, encouraging you to develop your own art practice in conjunction with philosophical examination of the ideas and processes which are central to your artwork. In the studio, specialist tuition is provided in a range of study areas, including: painting, sculpture, printmaking, and time-based practice. The areas covered within philosophy typically include:

• the definition of art • aesthetics from Kant to the present • morality and the good in art • the nature of self • philosophies of embodiment and technology • contemporary art theory. BA (HONS) FINE ART & PHILOSOPHY* Campus: Howard Gardens Course Length: Three years full-time

* Subject to validation

The balance of philosophy and practice is approximately 50:50, although you have some flexibility on this through selfdirected study modules.

Year one: A series of inductions is provided in a range of media and practices. You are able to work in several disciplinary areas during the first part of the year, at the end of which you make an initial choice of specialist study. In philosophy, you are introduced to art’s inherently philosophical nature through discussion of the definition of art, the interaction between art and language, and the relationship between mind and reality.

Year two: The second year is the time when you begin to develop your chosen area of specialism. Consideration is given to the contemporary nature of your practice, and to the various forms of exhibition or publication through which you might address your audience. These aspects of practice are informed by philosophical and theoretical studies.

Year three: This is the period when the practical-philosophical dialogue maintained throughout the course comes into its own. You exercise and extend the skill and understanding you have gained so far both in the studio, through artistic enquiry that is individual, accomplished and often innovative or daring, and in your dissertation, presented as a philosophical debate which informs your practice as a contemporary artist.

ASSESSMENT:

Studio work is assessed by exhibition, seminar presentation and viva voce examination. Theoretical work is assessed by written assignment, seminar presentation and viva voce examination.

UCAS CODE(S): WV15 (Route A), EV15 (Route B)

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: 160 UCAS Tariff Points from at least two A levels or equivalent. We have a very open mind to the qualifications you bring with you. We simply look to be convinced that you have the commitment to pursue this degree and the skills to make it worthwhile. We may ask you to bring a portfolio of your work to show us.

FURTHER INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/Fine-Art/

Programme Leader: Clive Cazeaux - Ccazeaux@uwic.ac.uk