Giving you the freedom to engage with a wide range of art practices, this art degree will develop your creative talents in your own, highly individual programme of study.
Essential Info
This art course will develop your creative ability across many different art forms. You will have the freedom to engage with a wide range of art practices, and historical and critical discourses to develop your own, highly individual programme of study.
The course is different from many other fine art courses because it encourages your own practice within a broad range of art forms.
Running in parallel to your studio practice, there are critical and professional studies, which enable you to project your work into contemporary artistic and professional contexts. We organise visits to galleries and museums in the UK and abroad for every level of the course.
What You Will Study
You will be encouraged to think and work across different disciplines, experiencing and understanding the possibilities and benefits of working this way.
Art practice begins with a range of projects involving ceramics, painting, printmaking, drawing, life drawing, 3D mixed media, digital-image making and cross-disciplinary processes. Your personal practice will be informed by the study of historical and contemporary practices and discourses.
In year two, you choose a strand in art practice based on 2D or 3D study and have the opportunity to engage with a live project to gain direct professional experience of project management, collaborative working, presentation, marketing and documentation.
In year three, you are expected to direct the content, pace and ambition of your art practice and theory, with emphasis on independence and self-awareness, leading to a substantial public exhibition.
How You Will Study
You will work in the studio using our specialist facilities. Studio practice is either project-led or self-directed. As well as this, you will have formal lectures, workshops, demonstrations, tutorials, visits to galleries, and talks by visiting speakers.
Teaching Quality
In the most recent national student survey published in 2011, art achieved high ratings for its teaching, and assessment and feedback, receiving the following score from final year undergraduates: 92% agreed that art teaching staff were good at explaining things, 96% agreed that staff provided detailed feedback on their work.
Prospects
How does this course make me employable?
Recognising the need for our graduates to be able to stand out in a competitive jobs market, the University of Glamorgan has developed a series of employability initiatives that exist within each academic Faculty.
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Employability opportunities.
Possible Career Options
Graduates have progressed to careers in arts administration, studio practice, community arts, public art, gallery curatorship, youth projects, postgraduate teacher training and arts in health. Graduation from this course can also lead to postgraduate study at the University of Glamorgan or elsewhere.
Future Study
Additional Information
Facilities
From a traditional darkroom with digital suites to a fully equipped lighting studio and 3D workshop, students studying art with the Faculty’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences get the opportunity to work in dedicated studio spaces allowing them to produce a high standard of work that the University can be proud of.
Art and Design courses occupy purpose refurbished accommodation at the main University campus in Treforest. Foundation accommodation comprises eight design studios, photographic darkrooms and lighting studios, 3D workshop, kiln room, plaster room, and printmaking studios.
