BA Single Honours Fine Art (Route B)

Apart from being intellectually stimulating and personally rewarding, the study of art has many practical benefits. It fosters a hands-on approach to the challenges of everyday life, encourages creative problem solving, improves the ability to adapt in a changing world, and enhances interpersonal liaison skills. These assets, sought after in today's job market as transferable skills, are actively promoted during your course of study at the School of Art.

Year 1
• Core modules deal with the fundamental skills, techniques, and concepts of Drawing, Illustration, Life Drawing, Life Painting, Painting, Photography, and Printmaking
• Core Art History and Visual Culture modules deal with the Current Issues and Specialist Topics
• Additional optional modules in Fine Art, Museum and Gallery Studies, or another subject offered within the Faculty of Arts

Year 2
• Core Fine Art modules deal with the development of technical dexterity, an experimental awareness of materials and methods, and conceptual development
• Optional Fine Art modules in the areas of Drawing, Illustration, Life Drawing, Life Painting, Painting, Photography, and Printmaking encourage an initiation of, and a creative response to, personal subject matter and strategies of working
• Allows specialisation in one area, or a combined study of a number of Fine Art areas to form a broad-based training and education
• A free choice of Art History modules from the prescribed list (with certain exceptions)
• A choice of Museum and Gallery Studies modules (on condition that core modules in the subject have been undertaken in Year 1)
• Elective credits may be taken in Fine Art, Art History, Museum and Gallery Studies or another subject's modules (subject to regs).

Year 3
• Specialisation in one or two areas of Fine Art with an emphasis on refining technical expertise and resolving the methodology and the conceptual and creative content of the student's work
• Core dissertation in Research and Process in Practice
• Optional modules in Professional Practice
• A free choice of Art History modules from the prescribed list (with certain exceptions and subject to availability)
• A choice of Museum and Gallery Studies modules (on condition that core modules in the subject have been undertaken in Year 1)
• Elective credits may be taken in Fine Art, Art History, Museum and Gallery Studies or another subject's modules (subject to regs).

The School of Art recruits Fine Art students through UCAS Routes A (W150) and B (E100) and accepts candidates direct from school and from Foundation courses.