Art & Philosophy BA (Hons)

• Foundation Studies 1
• Foundation Studies 2
• Foundation Studies 3
• Foundation Studies 4
• Introduction to Aesthetics (core)

Students can enter the course after successfully completing our Art and Design General Foundation course or an equivalent elsewhere.

You will enrich and expand your personal visual language, and begin to learn about key thinkers and themes from the history of philosophy.

• Contemporary Practice 1 (core)
• Contemporary Practice 2 (core)
• Thinking about Life: Existentialism, Life World and Dasein (core)
• Aesthetics in Question (core)

Level 2 develops your creative skills that empower you to work progressively towards a self-directed practice, and you will be introduced to a range of contemporary artists as your personal vision evolves.

You will explore a variety of existential philosophies and how the issues raised can be seen in contemporary forms of society and culture. You will explore philosophical questions concerning beauty and aesthetics, and how these ideals have come to influence the various contexts in which art operates.

• Independent & Creative Professional Practice 1 (core)
• Independent & Creative Professional Practice 2 (core)

One module in each semester selected from:

• Self-directed study (subject to availability)
• Art and Philosophy Now
• The Philosophies of the Self
• Phenomenology: Lifeworld Philosophy
• Marriage, Seduction and Sex in Film-Philosophy
• Fundamental Text in the European tradition: Phenomenology
• Fundamental Text in the European tradition: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
• Sovereignty, Biopolitics and Autoimmunity: A Critique of Political Life

In your visual practice you will develop a personal programme of research with multi-discipinary options. You will enhance your professional knowledge and skills.

Philosophy modules explore issues that are central to contemporary social and cultural interactions, and these may influence the conceptual development of your studio practice.

• Honours Creative Practice (core)
• Dissertation (core)

The studio module provides you with a period of sustained visual enquiry that will culminate in the exhibition of your work for Degree Show examination.

You have the option to write a dissertation that either closely reflects on your creative practice or considers a philosophical argument.