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FA268: Supporting Studies LII

Module Title	Supporting Studies LII
Module Code	FA268
Module Tutor	Bob Davison
School	Art and Design
CAT Points	15
Level of Study	5
Pre-requisites	None
Co-requisites	None
Restrictions	None
Brief Description	This module provides the opportunity to complement or support main study at Level 2 through a focused and investigative use of practical and research methods. This module enables students to focus on fine art studio practices making use of alternative media or approaches to their main practice.
Indicative Syllabus	Students will be expected to identify personal concerns within their main or related studio practice, and encouraged to take inventive or alternative approaches to the researching and realizing of those ideas in a visual forms. The module offers students in Fine Art Painting and Drawing and Fine Art Photography the possibility of undertaking a defined practice based visual project, in parallel with their main studio practice. This project must be clearly separable from the student's main studio practice, while also bearing an identifiable relationship to it. Students make specific proposals in terms of study or research, and through practice should widen and deepen their understanding of forms, processes or modes of operation, whilst broadening their understanding of their working methods and contextual issues. Students will identify a territory in which to work, and will explore the potential of inter-disciplinary and/or cross-disciplinary approaches for generating studio work if appropriate. Students should research relevant artists and models of practice, and to key methods and processes in the promotion and development of understanding through images. Examples could be drawing, including life-drawing, sculpture, including site-specific works, photography, printmaking, animation etc or any combination of these and other media. Students will be expected to engage in open discussion of work in progress throughout the module.
Learning Outcomes	i) Knowledge and Understanding By the end of the module students will be expected to have a knowledge and understanding of: a) inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to the developing of personal work b) methods of investigation appropriate to their work, and a level of enquiry appropriate to Level II c) the comparison of sources of influence and information with their individual work d) the dynamic interrelationship of concept, technique and content in the realisation of individual work e) the potential to realize practice within unfamiliar or innovative conceptual or technical frameworks f) an extended range of structural resources available to Fine Art students. ii) Skills At the end of the module students will be expected to have skills in: a) visual enquiry, and the generation and evaluation of visual and other research material b) the use of an extended range of Fine Art material/technical processes c) determination of personal imagery through a process of research and studio development d) the development and contextualization of content and process in their work e) self management: conceiving and realising work within a set timescale.
Learning and Teaching Activities	Directed Study: approximately 20% Independent Study: approximately 80%
Assessment (For further details see the Module Guide)	001: 100% Practical Exam: Display, Show or Performance: Body of studio work: 4000 words or equivalent
Special Assessment Requirements	None
Indicative Resources	The Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.

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