Art and Design

Leeds University Business School

Postgraduate

In Leeds

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Leeds

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This unique degree combines theoretical, design and studio art modules to develop your creative potential in an intellectually stimulating environment.
You’ll develop practical, creative and critical techniques, as well as producing and analysing sophisticated pieces of art and design. You’ll learn to be both creative and analytical – a very attractive combination to employers – and exhibit your work in every year.
Core modules will introduce and challenge key issues in art and design. You could work in media such as drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, digital media, printmaking, video and installation, which will be introduced in studio practice modules and workshops.
You’ll be supported by expert tutors, who are all practitioners or theorists with national or international profiles, in a School of Design that spans the arts and sciences. This means we can also offer a wide-ranging choice of modules, allowing you to express your ideas and develop your full potential.
The School of Design cuts across the arts and sciences and that makes it a fantastic environment for creativity. You’ll learn in well-lit studios and well-equipped workshops with specialist facilities for painting, printmaking, sculpture and digital media. There are PC and Mac computer suites with up to date software.

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Leeds (North Yorkshire)
Maurice Keyworth Building, The University Of Leeds, LS2 9JT

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About this course

Entry requirements
A-level: ABB including an art or design-related subject and excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking.
If you don’t have an art or design-related subject, we may also consider your application based on a high grade at GCSE in Art/Design and a portfolio of recent and relevant work.
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Access to HE Diploma
BTEC
Cambridge Pre-U
International Baccalaureate
Irish Highers (Leaving Certificate)
Scottish Highers / Advanced Highers
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Subjects

  • Design
  • Art design
  • Sculpture
  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Art
  • School
  • Media

Course programme

In your first year you’ll pursue a range of art and design practices, exploring processes and ideas in your studio practice. You’ll also be introduced to key issues in the history, culture and technologies informing art and design to help you put your practice into context.

The following year will allow you to build on this understanding: you’ll develop an awareness of professional standards in art and design and begin to put together a sustained body of work in your practice, engaging with the context you’ve gained from your academic studies. You’ll also develop your knowledge of research methods and marketing.

All of this prepares you for your final year, in which you have the opportunity to apply all that you have learned as you work towards your final degree exhibition. You’ll also demonstrate the skills of research and critical thinking you’ve gained as you write and research a dissertation on a topic of your choice.

Course structure

These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.

Modules Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Fundamentals of Imaging 20 credits
  • Studio Practice 1A 20 credits
  • Studio Practice 1B 20 credits
  • Material Culture and Mass Consumption 20 credits
  • Design History: 1900 to the Present day 10 credits
Optional modules
  • Green Design and Sustainability 10 credits
  • Introduction to Photography (Digital) 10 credits
  • Patterns and Culture 10 credits
  • Colour and the Design Process 10 credits
  • Fashion Brand Analysis 10 credits
  • Drawing 1A 10 credits
  • Drawing 1B 10 credits
  • Technologies for Art and Design 10 credits

Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Research Methods 1: Finding and Using Research Resources 10 credits
  • Research Methods 2: Research, Writing and Dissertation 10 credits
  • Marketing Creativity and Innovation 20 credits
  • Studio Practice 2A 20 credits
  • Studio Practice 2B 20 credits
Optional modules
  • Contemporary Digital Media 10 credits
  • Contemporary Art and Memory 10 credits
  • Photography (Digital) 10 credits
  • Class, Taste and Society: Interpreting Designed Objects. 10 credits
  • Eco-Design: Understanding Design's Role in Global Ecology 10 credits
  • Design Management and Trends 10 credits
  • Colour: Art and Science

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