Integrated Foundation Year
Bath Spa University
Key Information
Campus location
Bath, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
4 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
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Introduction
Integrated Foundation Year
Develop your ideas, skills and confidence during this Foundation year, in readiness for your chosen degree course.
Begin with a fast-paced introduction to experimentation and play as forms of investigation through active drawing, observation, making and recording.
You'll continue your enquiries into materials, processes and concepts, and select media, materials and technologies to create personal solutions in response to course briefs.
Finally, you'll specialise in your chosen discipline. You'll prepare and define objectives for a major personal project, assess your own work in relation to that of others, visually investigate and improve your preliminary ideas, and successfully oversee your major personal project from beginning to end.
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Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Foundation year modules
Play Make Draw
You'll explore and expand on a broad range of approaches within art and design. We'll introduce the notion of a personal body of work; integral to this is the development of contextual awareness;through interpretation of information and ideas.
Evolve
Identify and develop personal connections to explore ways of working within contemporary art and design. You'll reflect on and evaluate your progress and performance, and develop a responsive approach to advice and guidance. You'll also maintain reflective records via sketchbooks, logs, and/or journals.
Develop
Key to this module is your reflective and analytical approach to personal learning, project planning and outcomes. You'll identify and adapt appropriate methods and materials to develop ideas that address specific pathway briefs. You'll also develop an integrated approach to research and ideas, maintaining a detailed reflective journal throughout.
Realise
You'll create, manage, and curate a body of work within your chosen specialism for public exhibition. You'll write a proposal outlining a sustained art and design project that is inspirational, realistic and achievable (using a wide range of critical, contextual perspectives) and identify your project aims, objectives and influences.
Reflection and evaluation will play a key role in this task, and your work must be supported by evidence of this process, together with your experimentations and researches into the work of others to underpin and support your project.
Program Outcome
Program Intended Learning Outcomes
- Understanding of diverse outlooks and methodologies within the context of art and design.
- A practical knowledge of concepts to resolve art and design questions.
- Recognise, modify and apply methodologies and competences to enable inventive solutions.
- Utilise a range of art and design processes and skills safely and competently.
Program Tuition Fee
English Language Requirements
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