Part Time Art & Design Foundation Diploma (Exploratory)

Art & Design Foundation Diploma (Exploratory) (Sept '09) Art and Design courses in Brighton

This course information relates to courses starting in September 2009.

Course code: B0510

Course category: Part-time

End Qualification: Diploma Level 3 in Visual Arts, NCFE Level 2 in Painting and Drawing

Starting and ending month: September to June

Starting year: 2009

Days of the week: Thursday, Friday

Course duration: 36 weeks

Time of day: All day

Formal assessment: Formal assessment required

Course location: Pelham Campus

Course aims:
The course is aimed at students wanting to make a progression onto a degree course in art and design. In art and design, this is usually done through a Foundation course. This course is the first year of a two year foundation programme, but can also be taken as a discrete qualification. Students who successfully complete the first year can apply to progress onto the part-time foundation course (B05370)
The majority of learners on the course are returning to education or want a career change. The adult cohort makes the experience very mature and exciting for the learners.
The course suits students who have identified that they want to take their art and design studies much further and develop their thinking and creative potential.

Course content:
Unit 1 Visual recording in art and design
Unit 6 Fine Art Principles
Unit 10 Multidisciplinary work in Fine Art
Unit 11 Generating Fine Art Ideas
Unit 13 Developing and Realising Fine Art Ideas
The course introduces students to visual language in both two dimensions and three dimensions. The main emphasis in the first term is to develop students observational drawing and painting skills which is fundamental to all artists and designers.
Throughout the course there will be a series of workshop inductions such as: Photoshop, Plaster, Printmaking and Textile techniques.
The course provides different strategies for generating ideas and explores the different contexts of art and design practise. This enables students to identify their strengths and see how their works sits within the areas of Fine Art, 3D, Graphics, Illustration, Fashion or Textiles.
Students will need to undertake research into artists and designers to aid their own development. They will also undertake a written assignment that will develop their written, research and contextual skills.
The latter part of the course will be project based and allow students to work in a more independent way establishing and developing their own visual language supported through tutorials, seminars and more specific technical inputs suiting individual needs

Facilities for students:

• A fully updated machine workshop.
• PC and Mac suites
• Basic printmaking facilities
• Plaster and Ceramics studio

Tutors:
A range of enthusiastic & experienced full-time and part-time teaching staff teach on this course. The tutors provide a wide range of professional expertise, skills and industrial experience as practising designers, artists and educators.

Assessment: Assessment will take the form of: formative assessment, peer assessment, end of project reviews and critiques, as well as summative end of unit assessments.

Awarding Body: Edexcel

Entry Requirements:
You will require a strong portfolio of art work and sketchbooks demonstrating potential and a desire to develop skills and knowledge.

Interview for entry: Interview required

Pre-entry preparation:
Betty Edwards, Drawing on the right side of the brain
Ian Simpson Drawing seeing and observation

Progression and links:
Most students will progress onto the part-time foundation course to prepare their portfolio for a degree application.
Most careers in art and design will usually require a degree qualification.

Academic Centre:
Centre for Visual and Performing Arts

Costs of your Course:
There are five parts to the cost of your course:

• Tuition Fees
• College registration
• Awarding Body registration
• Resource Fee
• Exam / Assessment Fees

Tuition fees

How much will the Tuition Fees cost?

Below are the fees for 09/10.

Home/EU students tuition fees (per year) : 650

If you are under 19 on 31st August 2009 you do not have to pay Tuition Fees, the College Registration, Awarding Body Registration or Exam/Assessment Fees. However, you will have to pay any Resource Fees. Under 19s entering Higher Education will have to pay full costs.
Once you know your tuition fee, please look at the 'Additional Costs'. This will tell you all the extra costs you will have to pay in order to begin or complete your course.
Additional costsPayment dueTotal
Resource Fee 50
Exam Fee 94
Registration Fee 26

Total for 19 and over : 820
Total with fee remission : 170