Fine Art and Film (Placement Year) : BA Hons : WP14

Lancaster University

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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 Film, taught by the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA), gives you the opportunity to study art practice alongside the history and theory of film.

Your Fine Art courses will provide you with the opportunity to integrate Art Practice with Art History/Theory at a high level. Throughout your degree you will develop creative and technical skills in painting, drawing, sculpture, digital art and their hybrids. We have no ‘house style’ so you will develop the practice and ideas that best reflect your aims and values as a young artist. Your tutors will be professional artists and publishing historians/theorists and the mix of academic and creative skills gained at Lancaster makes you highly attractive for postgraduate study and employers.

Film at Lancaster is a stimulating and intellectually engaging course which provides a framework for the close analysis of individual films. You will study cinema history and the social significance of films and will develop a detailed understanding of the techniques of film production. You will also have the opportunity to produce short films in all three years of your study. You can choose from a range of specialist courses and will develop skills that can lead to postgraduate study and careers in the media, advertising and marketing.

You'll begin your degree with core modules including Modernism in the Arts, An Introduction to Film Studies, and Fine Art Practice. In your second year, you'll study subjects such as Studio Practice, Global Cinema and our LICA interdisciplinary module Critical Reflections. You will then complete your degree by choosing from a selection of Fine Art and Film modules on offer such as Documentary Drawing, Contemporary Fine Art Practitioners, and Film and Comic Books.

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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. Film graduates have gone into TV production roles, independent film production and jobs in advertising, marketing and media production.

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. Our graduates are well placed to pursue postgraduate vocational training in media-related professions, such as broadcast and print journalism, or take their skills into promotional and marketing roles

Many of our graduates also go on to further study often becoming academics, lecturers and teachers or further vocational training in film production, including the prestigious New York Film Academy and London Film School.

A Level ABB

Required Subjects A level Art and Design or one other humanities subject considered desirable but not essential

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • Film Studies
  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Art
  • Cinema
  • Hollywood
  • Media
  • Arts and Culture
  • Global Cinema
  • Studio practice

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 Film Studies
    • Placement Preparation
    • The Arts and Culture in Modernity
Year 2

Core

    • Critical Reflections
    • Hollywood and beyond: Global cinema
    • Studio Practice
    • Work Based Learning Preparation

Optional

    • Beyond the Studio: Interaction and Situation in Contemporary Art
    • Contemporary Fine Art Practitioners
    • Documentary Cultures
    • Documentary Drawing
    • Documentary Film Practice
    • European New Wave Cinema
    • Expanded Painting Practice
    • Film and Comic Books
    • Introduction to Sound
    • LICA Work Placement
    • Media & Performance
    • Perception and the Arts
    • Women Filmmakers: critical visions, critical revisions
Year 3

Core

    • Work Based Learning Placement
Year 4

Core

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

Optional

    • Apocalypse Then: New Hollywood Cinema
    • Classic Hollywood: The Studio Era
    • Contemporary Dance and the Visual Arts
    • Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
    • Creative Enterprise
    • Expanded Drawing
    • Film Theory
    • Silent Cinema
    • 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.

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