BA (Hons) Fine Art with Foundation Year

Module: 3VA001

Credits: 60

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

In this module you will work on a series of short projects that aim to introduce you to the core art and design skills that will support your development as an artist or designer at degree level and beyond. In semester 1 you will explore a range of approaches to drawing as a fundamental art and design tool for thinking through and communicating your ideas. Increasingly drawing will be seen as a basis for exploring 2d, 3d and media solutions to art and design problems. Alongside these practical workshops you will begin to explore how research, reflection and documentation can inform your ideas and support studio practice by creating a studio journal containing a series of structured tasks. In semester 2 you will have extended opportunity to work with specialist staff from the different art and design subjects taught in the school and develop projects responding to more defined areas of practice appropriate to your interests and ambitions for degree level study. You will be expected to develop a more focused and independent approach to research through your journal responses and studio practice. Increasingly you will be expected to take greater control and direction of your learning. In semester 1 the workshops, studio projects, research tasks and study visits will be clearly structured and you will be expected to attend regularly and participate in a range of learning activities within and outside of taught sessions. As the course develops and you start to define your subject and contextual interests you will necessarily need to become more independent in accessing appropriate resources for your personal development as an artist/designer. The studios, workshops and other resources are open 5 days a week and you are increasingly expected to manage your taught and independent studio/study time effectively to complete work well and on time.

Module: 3VA002

Credits: 60

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

In this module you will be introduced to the range of art and design subject specialisms taught in the School of Art. Academic and technical teams from across the school will introduce you to specialist workshops and provide a range of short project briefs to enable you to explore and test your ideas out in different mediums and contexts. This will be accompanied by contextual visits, lectures and seminars that will explore how the different artists and designers address genres and issues pertinent to their practice. Assessment reviews and tutorials will be used to support you to reflect on these experiences and begin to consider some areas for extended experience in Semester 2. In semester 2 you will work in subject groupings and propose an individually negotiated project aligned to a broad subject area in the school. You will work with Foundation and degree level tutors to develop your ideas and work towards degree level entry standard. You will need to demonstrate some ability to work and learn independently and reflect on your work to progress your ideas. Alongside practical work you will undertake a portfolio of contextual research which will underpin your core knowledge of your chosen area of study and learn the basic research and writing skills that you will need to progress to degree level study.

Module: 4FP018

Credits: 60

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module provides you with the time and space to develop independently by supporting you to become more experimental in the production of your work. The emphasis, in this module, is on process, theory, and practice and the ways by which they contribute to the production of your work. Throughout the module you will be encouraged to test new approaches and ideas and to reflect on the successes and importantly, the failures of your work. In tutorials and group reviews you will be asked to reflect on these experiences and to consider how you might learn from experimentation, critical analysis, and the feedback of potential audiences to re-think and re-work your ideas. This module will also introduce you to a range of dialogues between models of practice and contextual knowledge that will help you understand contemporary practice, and its relationship to audience. You will engage in lectures and seminars and produce a range of creative and academic contextual assignments that will directly link to your projects. The module will encourage you to organise your time effectively, work more independently and demonstrate the personal curiosity to find and evaluate concepts and artworks that have a specific relationship to your work.

Module: 4FP017

Credits: 60

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces you to a range of workshops, resources and staff working across the School of Art to provide you with specialist making, methods and media instruction appropriate to your practice. It is an intensive workshop-based module and throughout the year you will undertake a series of studio, workshop and media-based projects that will provide the foundation for your emerging practice. As a Level 4 student in the School of Art you will be supported to make the leap between your prior educational experiences and independent practice. You will develop time management skills through structured tasks and increasingly you will be expected to make use of independent study hours to further test and progress your work in the studios and workshops. In this module you will also learn to document and record your work effectively and gain confidence in reflecting on your work in sketchbooks, journals, group reviews and tutorials in relation to a range of contextual ideas, practitioners, and projects associated with your work.

Module: 5FP015

Credits: 60

Period: 3

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module is designed to increase your awareness of a variety of concepts, issues and strategies of display, which have affected or influenced the way in which creative practitioners devise and develop work. You will stretch and deepen your application of practical skills and conceptual thinking to examine the role of a wider audience both within our facilities and through engagement with external sites and organisations. A programme of advanced tutor-led workshops and contextual research will support you to develop appropriate tools for the realisation and dissemination of your work and related projects. Additionally, you will examine the importance of context for creating and controlling meaning within a framework that your practice is located in. Through ongoing contact and exposure to material, cultural, social, environmental, historical and contemporary issues within the arts you will demonstrate the critical ability to site your work professionally in public contexts.

Module: 5FP014

Credits: 60

Period: 3

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

As a Level 5 student in the School of Art you will be supported to make the leap between your prior Level 4 experiences and advanced practice and techniques. You will further develop time management skills to make use of independent study hours to further test and progress your work in our facilities. In this module you will develop more personal methodologies to document and record your work effectively. You will gain confidence in reflecting on your work in sketchbooks, journals, group reviews and tutorials in relation to a range of contextual ideas and artists associated with self-initiated work. Through tutor led lectures and seminars, the module will present a range of contextual and conceptual frameworks, and practices to support the development of your independent work. You are expected to apply advanced methods of experimentation in order to realise, review, test and discuss contemporary practice, your work and the work of your peers. You will generate practical and written responses to underpin your conceptual and aesthetic position. As level 5 progresses you will be expected to advance through a body of work and pose significant ideas for progression at level 6.

Module: 6FP011

Credits: 60

Period: 4

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

As a Level 6 student in the School of Art you will build on your previous experiences and advance your practice and techniques. Through a focused and on-going enquiry, you will establish a sustained ability to reflect and develop work, based on an informed understanding of your practice. This module aims to strengthen the development of a sustained and independent artistic practice leading to the completion of a significant body of work. By encouraging you to explore a range of concepts and practices, you will consolidate your skills through critical enquiry and be expected to make full use of facilities, studios and your personal study hours. Specialist tutorials will support you to identify, understand and reflect on the connections between intention, process, outcome and context in your work. The dissertation project will equip you with critical and theoretical languages drawn from contextual frameworks relevant to your practice.

Module: 6FP012

Credits: 60

Period: 4

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

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This module will enable you to resolve your work to a professional standard and address appropriate personal and career objectives, in order to develop new strategies for intervening and disseminating your work in the public sphere. You will explore a range of concepts and practices of contemporary strategies of display, dissemination, promotion and publication leading to the completion and exhibition of a significant body of work This module will offer you opportunities to demonstrate and expand on the practical, critical and contextual dimensions of your practice and present it through a variety of platforms