SGS (South Gloucestershire and Stroud College)
UCAS Code: G2S6 | Foundation Degree in Arts - FdA
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This can be achieved from a variety of qualifications including A Levels, Diploma's, Access To HE and Scottish Highers. GSCE requirements: GCSE English and Maths grade C or 4.
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About this course
This Foundation Degree is awarded by the University of Gloucestershire, based at Bristol School of Art in the heart of Bristol. You will be able to develop and extend your fine art skills, alongside engaging with a range of fundamental principles and expectations relating to contemporary Fine Art practice. You will engage with current debates, research and historical precedent in order to come to a personal position as an artist - your ambitions and how you choose to define your practice.
Alongside the continuing development of your own studio work, you will undertake modules that require you to research and engage with examples of practice within social, community and other contexts. You will experience taught workshops, independent studio/workshop activities, seminars, tutorials and lectures.
Processes and Skills: You will have the opportunity to experiment and specialise in a range of different media including drawing, printmaking, painting, 3D processes (sculpture, ceramics, small metal and textiles), digital processes (Adobe Suite, photography, moving image). This will contribute to your own sense of an individual creative identity. Later studio practice modules will build upon your skills encouraging you to be increasingly autonomous and independent.
Research and Contextual Studies: You will make links between your own practice, art history and theory, and encountering Fine Art practice and practitioners in social, community, and/or commercial contexts. You will research the ways in which Fine Artists, both in the past and now, contribute to the wider cultural, commercial, and social environments.
Transferable Skills: You will learn to use high levels of creative thinking, technical, collaborative, intellectual and communication skills, as well as developing your individual creative identity as a Fine Art practitioner. These will be supported through professional practice activities and assignments including an off-site exhibition.
It is a very practical degree and your work is assessed via both practical and written coursework. The Foundation Degree is a qualification in its own right and is equivalent to the first 2 years of a degree. You may wish to progress onto our 1-year BA (Hons) Fine Art and Contemporary Arts Practice (Level 6) programme.
**Part time routes are available. For more information, please email HEadmissions@sgscol.ac.uk**
**Open Days**
Why not visit Bristol School of Art at an Open Day? You will have the opportunity to meet tutors and Student Ambassadors. To register interest please go to our website: https://uni.sgscol.ac.uk/open-events
**GRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES:**
• Fine Artist
• Curator
• Museum/Gallery work
• Artist Residencies
• Education
• Postgraduate
• Progression to BA (Hons) Fine Art Top-up Level 6
• Further studies
Modules
Level 4 Modules-
Drawing as Investigation,
Preparation for Surface, 3D & 4D Projects,
Surface, 3D or 4D Projects,
Contextual Studies: Art in Society ,
Level 5 Modules-
Drawing and Idea,
Idea into Form,
Professional Practice & Off-Site Exhibition,
Contextual Studies: Art and Community.
Assessment methods
Coursework, Practical assignments and presentations
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