BA Fine Art with Contemporary Cultural Theory
Entry requirements
A level: ABB BTEC: DDM IB: 34 points overall including 16 at Higher Level with 4 in English
About this course
BA in Fine Art with Contemporary Cultural Theory, a Scottish Ethnology and Studies and Fine Art degree focused on practical studio work and theoretical study. Core topics include Social & Cultural Analysis. Students complete studio and cultural analysis modules leading to a final exhibition. The first year covers the foundations through Introduction to Practice, Developing Practice [2], Introduction to Cultural Analysis 1 and Introduction to Cultural Analysis 2. The second year progresses through Defining your Practice [3] and Practice into Public Contexts [4], while optional choices span topics such as Image, Music, Text: Reading Roland Barthes, The State of Utopia and Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice. The final year centres on the compulsory module Practice towards exhibition, alongside optional modules including From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust, Cultural Diversity in Museum and Material Culture - Case Study and Critical Approaches to Photography.
Modules
- Introduction to Practice
- Developing Practice [2]
- Introduction to Cultural Analysis 1
- Introduction to Cultural Analysis 2
- Defining your Practice [3]
- Practice into Public Contexts [4]
- Image, Music, Text: Reading Roland Barthes
- The State of Utopia
- Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice
- Bodies of Difference: Gender, Power and the Visual Arts
- Seeing in Asia
- Showing Asia
- State of the Art: Contemporary Perspectives in Art, Science and Technology
- Practice towards exhibition
- From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust
- Cultural Diversity in Museum and Material Culture - Case Study
- Critical Approaches to Photography
- Postcolonial Feminisms
- Movies, Migrants and Diasporas