MA Fine Art - Full-Time

Modules listed below are a mixture of compulsory and optional. You may not have the opportunity to study all the modules as part of the course.

• Advanced Fine Art Practice 1
• Advanced Research and Study Skills
• Advanced Fine Art Practice 2
• Critical Thinking in Practice
• Advanced Fine Art Practice 3
• Critical Analysis and Reflection

We take a blended approach to learning and teaching, where you’ll have face-to-face sessions as well as engaging with online learning. Studio, workshop, computer suite, and lecture room activities are the main features of the programme, and you can expect to spend most your time in these specialist areas.

Lectures, seminars, demonstrations and masterclass workshops link specialisms across the traditional boundaries of painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and theory, and help to combine traditional techniques with modern technologies. You’ll also engage in self-directed study with support from a range of staff, including our expert technicians and library/learning resources staff.

You’ll receive formative feedback on your progress during one-to-one tutorials and peer review sessions. In terms of summative assessment, you can expect practical modules to involve an exhibition or other form of presentation, such as a portfolio of drawings and developmental work, and project outcomes in the form of artworks produced. These should be backed up by technical note files, sketchbooks, research files and reflective journals. Presentations may also include verbal presentations to clients or staff. Critical and theoretically-based modules typically require you to submit written reports or essays.

We invite visiting speakers, for instance prominent artists, designers, gallery administrators, or film makers to give lectures about their practice. These are opportunities to hear from successful practitioners about their careers and to ask detailed questions about how they’ve achieved this. We also bring in artists to run specialist masterclass workshops.

We make use of the University’s virtual learning environment, Moodle, and other e-learning facilities. This is important resource contains digital versions of all projects and book-lists, plus links to relevant websites, video materials, and other sources of learning.

The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up to date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.