Full Time BA Hons Top Up Degree in Visual Arts

Level : Higher Education

· Qualification Name : BA Hons Top Up Degree in Visual Arts

· Qualification Type : BA Hons one year top up degree

· Awarding Body : Leeds Metropolitan University

· Duration : 1 year

· Start Date : September 2010

· Start Time : TBC

· End Time : TBC

· Course Fees : £2000 (Full time) The fee quoted is for guidance only and will be confirmed at enrolment. £�1000 (Part time - 08-09 price) Students may be eligible for funding through Student Finance England. Www.studentfinance.direct.gov.uk. Please contact Student Services on 01422 399367 for further information.

· Venue : Todmorden Community College

· Academic Department : Art, Design and Technology

· Course Overview: · Develop your creative skills and get the professional know how to enable you to work in the Visual Arts industry, further your existing career or to prepare for passing your knowledge and experience on to others. Developing your professional skills as an artist will include working towards handling commissions, planning and organising exhibitions and selling your own work. A personal development plan will help you to realise your ambitions and reflective practice will give you the critical and professional awareness to work independently. The course includes: Modules combined with specialist studio practice an intensive programme of reflective, critical and developmental activities. Learners produce a Personal Development Plan and undertake reflective exercises that chart their personal, practical and professional development throughout the course. Through seminars and lectures, students explore current critical approaches to fine art practice. Learners attend sessions based around professional awareness and opportunities. A Personal Project, involving a commission or exhibition proposal, is undertaken and towards the end of the year students mount a final exhibition and write a short (2000 words) Reflection upon Practice. By the end of the course, learners should be able to work in an independent, autonomous manner with a critical and professional awareness of the context for their practice. The course is designed as a progression from an HND or relevant Foundation Degree.

Entry Requirements: · Qualification at HND level. Applicants with relevant experience and/or a portfolio of related work will be considered.