Fine Art and Creative Writing (Placement Year) : BA Hons : WW19

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Lancaster's degree in Fine Art and Creative Writing is taught jointly by the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) and the Department of English and Creative Writing. This course is ideal for anyone with strong academic and creative abilities who wants to study fine art alongside creative writing.
Your Creative Writing courses are taught by a team of widely published authors through a combination of lectures, readings, practice and discussion in regular tutor-led workshops. Your degree includes an Introduction to Creative Writing in your first year, and in your second and third years of study you will choose additional genre-specific units such as Short Fiction, Poetry Writing or Creative Non-fiction.

Fine Art at Lancaster gives you the opportunity to integrate Art Practice with Art History/Theory at a high level. From the first through to the final year of your degree you will develop creative and technical skills in painting, drawing, sculpture, digital art and their hybrids. While we have no ‘house style’ the emphasis is on Fine Art practice and Fine Art ‘thinking’ rather than illustration. Our aim is for you to develop the practice and ideas that best reflect your aims and values as a young Fine Artist. Your tutors will be professional artists and publishing historians and the mix of academic and creative skills gained at Lancaster makes you highly attractive for postgraduate study and employers.

You will begin your degree with core courses including Modernism in the Arts, Fine Art Practice and Creative Writing. In your second year you’ll move on to subjects such as Studio Practice, Short Fiction: Genre and Practice and our LICA interdisciplinary module Critical Reflections. You will then complete your degree by choosing from a selection of Fine Art and Creative Writing modules on offer such as Expanded Drawing, Longer Fiction and Writing/Reading Poetry.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

A LICA combined degree gives graduates the confidence and capability to produce work for themselves. Our graduates have become professional artists, while others have chosen to work as community artists and designers, arts administrators and managers.

The transferable skills gained through studying a LICA combined degree at Lancaster make our graduates extremely attractive to a wide range of employers within different creative industries, including the media.

Many of our graduates also go on to further study often becoming academics, lecturers and teachers.

Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, but that you also graduate with relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability/career development, campus community and social development.

A Level ABB

Required Subjects A level in one of the following subjects: Creative Writing, English language, English Literature or A level English Language and Literature.

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • Creative Writing
  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Art
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Fine Art Practice
  • Arts and Culture
  • Studio practice
  • Studio

Course programme

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Year 1

Core

    • Fine Art Practice
    • Introduction to Creative Writing
    • Placement Preparation
    • The Arts and Culture in Modernity
Year 2

Core

    • Critical Reflections
    • Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop
    • Studio Practice
    • Work Based Learning Preparation

Optional

    • Beyond the Studio: Interaction and Situation in Contemporary Art
    • Contemporary Fine Art Practitioners
    • Documentary Drawing
    • Expanded Painting Practice
    • Introduction to Sound
    • Media & Performance
    • Perception and the Arts
Year 3

Core

    • Work Based Learning Placement
Year 4

Core

    • Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
    • Advanced Studio Practice (single weighted]
    • Dissertation
    • Work Based Learning Reflection

Optional

    • Advanced Short Story: Form and Practice
    • Advanced Studio Practice
    • Contemporary Dance and the Visual Arts
    • Expanded Drawing
    • Sound as Practice

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research

Fine Art and Creative Writing (Placement Year) : BA Hons : WW19

Price on request