Study Schemes

BA  Fine Art [W100]

Academic Year: 2024/2025Single Honours scheme - available from 2003/2004

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (80 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AR11120

Drawing: Looking, Seeing, Thinking

AR11320

Drawing: Extended Practice

Semester 2
AR11220

Painting: Looking, Seeing, Thinking

AR11420

Painting: Extended Practice

Year 1  Options

Select 40 credits from:

Semester 1
AH11320

Pleasure, Power, and Profit: Art in the Long Eighteenth Century

AH11520

Looking into Landscape: Reading, Researching, Responding

AH11820

Photography Begins

Semester 2
AH11220

Exploring the School of Art Collections: Research and Museums

AH11420

Revolutions & Modernities: Art in the Nineteenth Century

AH11720

Representing the Body

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (10 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 2
AR23210

Professional Practice for Students of Art

Year 2  Options

Fine Art students must take 70 to 90 credits from the list of AR2 modules.

Semester 1
AR20120

Painting 1

AR20230

Painting 2

AR20720

Photography 1

AR20830

Photography 2

AR22110

Life Studies 1

AR22320

Printmaking 1: Etching and Relief Printing

AR22430

Printmaking 2: Etching and Relief Printing

AR25320

Interdisciplinary Practice 3

AR29820

Introduction to Design and Illustration 1

AR29930

Introduction to Design and Illustration 2

Semester 2
AR20920

Painting 3

AR21030

Painting 4

AR21620

Photography 3

AR21730

Photography 4

AR21820

Book Illustration 1

AR21930

Book Illustration 2

AR22210

Life Studies 2

AR22520

Printmaking 3: Screenprinting, lithography & hybrid printing

AR22630

Printmaking 4: Screenprinting, lithography & hybrid printing

AR25420

Interdisciplinary Practice 4

Year 2  Options

Fine Art students must take at least 20 credits from AH2 modules during the second year

Semester 1
AH20120

Enlightenment and Empire: Museums, Knowledge, and Meaning

AH20520

Modernisms: Art in the Early Twentieth Century

AH21620

The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400

Semester 2
AH20020

The Pre-Raphaelites

AH20620

Postmodernism and Contemporary Art

AH24020

Documentary Photography

Final Year  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
AR30600

Research and Process in Practice

Semester 2
AR30620

Research and Process in Practice

AR32540

Exhibition 2: Graduation Show

Final Year  Options

Fine Art students may take either 40 credits from the following:

Semester 1
AR31840

Painting 6 Paint Directed Practice

AR32040

Printmaking 6 - Print Directed Practice

AR32240

Photography 6 - Photo Directed Practice

AR32440

Book Illustration 4

AR35320

Interdisciplinary Practice 5

Semester 2
AR35420

Interdisciplinary Practice 6

Final Year  Options

OR take AR31610 (Life Studies 3) and one from the following list of modules

Semester 1
AR31730

Painting 5 - Paint Directed Practice

AR31930

Printmaking 5 - Print Directed Practice

AR32130

Photography 5 - Photo Directed Practice

AR32330

Book Illustration 3

Final Year  Options

Fine Art students must take at least 20 credits from AH3 modules during their final year

Semester 1
AH30120

Enlightenment and Empire: Museums, Knowledge, and Meaning

AH30620

The Image Multiplied: European Printmaking since 1400

Semester 2
AH30020

The Pre-Raphaelites

AH32720

Curating an Exhibition: Researching, Interpreting and Displaying

AH34020

Documentary Photography

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