2008 Cardiff School of Art & Design Programmes

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CONTACTS CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN UWIC Howard Gardens Campus Cardiff CF24 0SP + 44 (0)29 2041 6154 Llandaff Campus Western Avenue Cardiff CF5 2YB +44 (0)29 2041 6637/6696 csad@uwic.ac.uk www.csad.uwic.ac.uk UWIC Central Admissions Office: +44 (0)29 2041 6010

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by Clare Adams

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Welcome Our Vision Why Choose Cardiff?

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Fine Arts BA (Hons) Fine Art BA (Hons) Fine Art & Art History BA (Hons) Fine Art & Philosophy BA (Hons) Fine Art & Writing

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Material Arts & Foundation Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art & Design) BA (Hons) Ceramics BA (Hons) Contemporary Textile Practice

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Creative Communication BA (Hons) Graphic Communication BA (Hons) Media Studies with Visual Cultures BA (Hons) Mobile, Web & Game Design BA (Hons) Illustration

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Architectural Studies BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying HND Architectural Design Technology BSc (Hons) Architectural Design Technology BSc (Hons) Building Maintenance & Management BA (Hons) Interior Architecture

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Design Technologies BA (Hons) Product Design BSc (Hons) Product Design

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Other Programmes

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Masters Programmes MA Ceramics MA Fine Art MSc Rapid Product Development MSc Advanced Product Design

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Research at CSAD Our Staff Our Students How to apply International Summer School Programme Cardiff Open Art School Cover Story - Clare Adams UWIC Bursaries Contact Details

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...WELCOME

WELCOME FROM THE DEAN You could begin your journey of a lifetime by studying at Cardiff, one where your creative potential and energy could lead you to extraordinary discoveries, not least about yourself.

Through our innovative programmes, you could explore ideas and skills that make a difference, that open minds and senses and that help make our world a more interesting, rewarding place.

You will work in a stimulating and challenging environment with tutors who bring their inspiration and skills to your learning. You will find ways of applying the things you discover and, through this, prepare yourself for your own creative future.

All this takes place in a vibrant city, where creative expression sits at the heart of culture itself.

I look forward to welcoming you to Cardiff School of Art & Design.

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OUR VISION Cardiff School of Art & Design aims to be a visible force in the arts and creative industries, with a reputation for programmes, research and enterprise that befit a European capital city.

We believe in the innate creativity of the individual and seek to provide opportunities for students and staff to develop their best talents. CSAD graduates are distinguished as being makers and thinkers, capable of originality and inventiveness.

“Tutors are inspirational and enthusiastic about their specialist area of design and go out of their way to help you - it’s really infectious!”

Kim Fourmy BA (Hons) Grapgic Communication student

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...INSPIRATIONAL

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...INSPIRATIONAL WHY CHOOSE CARDIFF? Making a decision to apply for a place at university isn’t just a question of choosing an appropriate course. You’ll also need to decide where you want to spend the next few years of your life…

If you are looking for a place where you will feel welcome; somewhere that’s lively, inexpensive and easy to get around - Cardiff is your answer.

It’s young, prosperous and vibrant; a city full of character and atmosphere with a range of first-class opportunities for sport, nightlife, shopping and sightseeing.

ARTS CITY

WATERFRONT CIT Y

Cardiff caters well for the arts with the famous St David’s Hall hosting events including ballet, opera and classical concerts.

The fantastic Wales Millennium Centre offers every type of performance from West End Shows to contemporary dance.

The New Theatre and the Sherman Theatre host a variety of productions. The Chapter Arts Centre is one of the largest complexes of its kind in Europe.

It houses two cinemas, a gallery and performance spaces and offers a programme of theatre, dance and art films, as well as blockbusters and exhibitions.

What used to be the old docks area of the city has been totally transformed and majestic old Victorian buildings, which once served the world’s biggest coalexporting port, now blend elegantly with shiny modern architecture.

NIGHTLIFE CITY Cardiff is packed full of cheerful and welcoming pubs and few students graduate from here without having sampled a pint of the city’s very own beer, Brains SA, brewed in the heart of the city. For those who enjoy less boisterous surroundings, there are several wine bars where you can sit back and enjoy waiter service.

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Cardiff Bay is home to Wales’ National Assembly, the country’s political headquarters, and many businesses. They have been attracted to set up in Cardiff’s newest quarter. The most exciting news on the waterfront, however, is the Wales Millennium Centre.

Cardiff Bay houses one of the Welsh nation’s most stunning icons, a vast home for the arts in Wales, which aims to rival Sydney Opera House in stature and reputation.

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COAST AND COUNTRYSIDE Cardiff is surrounded by some of the most attractive countryside and coastal scenery in Britain - and it is all easily accessible.

Vale of Glamorgan is an area of coastal and rural beauty with steep cliff faces and secluded bays. The best way to discover the Vale is to explore one of the country lanes, which cross its hills and wooded valleys.

Gower Peninsula is the UK’s first designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The beaches on the Gower are particularly popular with surfers and the area also attracts walkers, rock climbers and hang-gliding enthusiasts - as well as those who just want a lazy day on the beach!

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Brecon Beacons National Park offers thousands of miles of public footpath including bridleways and cycle routes. As well as walking, cycling and horse riding, visitors to the Brecon Beacons can take part in other popular activities such as climbing, gliding, sailing, windsurfing and fishing.

Taff Trail is a 55 mile waymarked route that joins Cardiff Bay with Brecon. The route runs along old railway lines, canals, forestry paths and minor roads.

Pembrokeshire Coast National Park if you want to travel further afield, to the West is Pembrokeshire and Britain’s only coastal based national park, which runs 180 miles from Amroth near Tenby in the south, to St Dogmael’s (near Cardigan) in the north. It is no exaggeration to say that the Park has some of the most spectacular stretches of coast in Europe.

Wild horses roaming free on a grassy mountain top in the Brecon Beacons National Park...

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...INSPIRATIONAL

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STUDENT We are passionate about our teaching and firmly believe in putting you, the student, at the centre of the learning experience. You will learn through your practice and experimentation, gradually taking responsibility for your own learning. As you progress, you will be offered more and more choices. By the time you reach your third year of study, you will largely be deciding what you want to explore in your degree, and the direction you want to take your learning...

Studying for a degree is a demanding experience, but we believe you will make the most of it, getting as much out of it as you put in. It’s a journey that will take you to amazing discoveries through your own creativity and application. You will also have a lot of fun and make friends who will last a lifetime. At the end, you will be on the way to the professional career of which you have dreamed.

The majority of our staff are practicing artists and designers working at the leading edge of our disciplines and many have extensive experience of working in industry. We are a passionate lot and strongly believe in what we are doing.

You may notice that this has a habit of rubbing off on our students! It is little wonder that our retention rates are high: once here, people chose to stay.

To match the excellence of our staff, we have a very wide range of resources and facilities. There are many specialist workshops and studios including those for painting, sculpture, ceramics, print, textiles, graphics, architecture, and product design. We are developing a foundry for casting non ferrous metals, and have a well equipped CNC model making workshop, lots of specialist IT suites, and of course lecture theatres and seminar rooms.

All our programmes offer a balance of taught workshops, practical sessions and selfdirected study, together with lecture programmes that provide vital underlying theory and contextual understanding.

We genuinely care about our students and so offer excellent support structures and activities. You will have your own personal tutor to steer you through your studies. We have first- rate learning and teaching support, as well as counselling for those who might need a little extra help. You also have wide range of student clubs and associations to choose from, terrific sports facilities at Cyncoed and effective student services through, for example, the University Chaplaincy.

Moreover there is a licenced bar on the Howard Gardens Campus that holds regular events, including live bands.

We look forward to meeting you and joining in the great experience that is Cardiff School of Art & Design!

Paul Wilgeroth Director of Learning & Teaching, Deputy to the Dean And general all round good egg!

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...BEING A CSAD

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Our ambition is very simple - to make Cardiff School of Art & Design one of the best places in the country to study Fine Art. We do this by offering a challenging curriculum founded on principles British art schools have fostered over decades: imaginative thinking, critical awareness, sound technical knowledge, and a deep understanding of art history. We strongly encourage students to develop their drawing skills, working from life and the model, to gain lasting proficiency with tools, materials and processes, and study significant artworks as a source of inspiration and guide to excellence.

Working in our city-centre studios and having access to a superb historical collection at the National Museum, our students are not only immersed in a rich contemporary art scene but have intimate contact with great artists of the past.

We embrace new creative opportunities - new technologies, new media hybrids and interdisciplinary practices. We are aware that the art of the future, whatever it looks like, will be different from the art of the present or the past. Our students are the artists of the future, and we encourage them to break moulds, to look afresh at what is possible, at what art can do or say. Using technologies like robotics, the internet, or interventionist practices like walking or social engagement, by combining painting with performance or sculpture with sound, new artists will continue to surprise, excite and confound their audiences, and continually reinvigorate their discipline.

Our teaching and technical staff are passionate about what we and our students do. All our tutors are practicing artists, theorists or writers who use their knowledge and experience to nurture new talent and promote the next generation of creative practitioners. Our technical staff are closely involved in helping students with practical issues of process, craft and material manipulation. We have generously appointed studio spaces, and technical resources covering a huge range of media. All this helps provide an art education of the highest quality and to best prepare students for success in whatever career they pursue.

If you are hard working, ambitious and determined we would like to develop your talents and help fulfil your aspirations. There are few things more rewarding than seeing our former students succeed, and we hope you will be one of them.

Robert Pepperell Reader in Fine Art Head of Fine Arts

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CAREER POTENTIAL: On completion of the course many of our graduates develop their professional practice by renting studio space and pursuing their careers as independent artists. Many find work in art-related occupations.

Our former students are currently employed as teachers or lecturers, in journalism or art writing, as gallery curators or exhibition organisers and assistants, as researchers for publishing houses or in television production, film or digital media. Many will undertake postgraduate study, entering teaching through attaining a PGCE or continue the development of their work and ideas by undertaking an MA or MPhil in the UK or abroad.

COURSE CONTENT: This is an exciting, stimulating and flexible course that will give you a broad-ranging introduction to Fine Art in year one and then enable you to specialise in your chosen medium in years two and three, or to work across disciplinary areas.

The course offers four specialist areas of study: Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking and Media Arts & Performance, each led by tutors who are also practicing artists and eminent in their fields. We offer additional support in photography, electronics, animation and ceramics. The course allows you to explore the relationships

between the different disciplines and media while giving you an opportunity to develop your talents to the full in areas that interest you most.

Regular visits from significant contemporary artists allow for direct contact with the wider art world and help to build your understanding of the professional context in which artists work.

You will also be introduced to a range of histories and theories of art, which will help to inform your own ideas and place your work in a wider context.

SPECIALIST AREAS PA I N T I N G : The painting area in Fine Art offers a challenging and rewarding environment in which core technical skills, such as the handling of paint, drawing and colour, are combined with thoughtprovoking contemporary ideas.

We use a range of teaching methods, such as skills workshops, face to face tutorials, studio seminars, lectures, master-classes and diagnostic reviews - all designed to improve your skills, confidence and understanding of this ancient and complex craft. We offer regular access to taught drawing workshops, including figure, still-life, and experimental sessions, to strengthen your drawing and observational skills, underpin your visual practice and improve your expressive fluency.

PRINTMAKING: The development of high-level skills and the creative expression of personal ideas is the central aim of the study in the Printmaking area. The range of crafts and media taught includes stone lithography, etching and other intaglio processes, screen-printing, relief printing and digital media, bookmaking and print installation. The printmaking area is supported by an art history and theory programme of lectures, seminars and presentations. In the studio, tutorials, seminars and critiques help develop further your judgment, awareness of context and personal research skills.

MEDIA ARTS & PERFORMANCE: The area offers a dynamic and experimental element of the course that encourages a multidisciplinary approach to contemporary art practice.

Performance art, animation, video, sonic, interactive and installation art, and digital media are explored to enable you to reflect your own ideas and research. Staff members work with you to deliver lectures on the history and development of performance art, video and media arts. You are encouraged to contribute to weekly shows and are supported through tutorials and technical workshops covering video shooting and editing, Web design and DVD authoring.

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BA (HONS) FINE ART Campus: Howard Gardens Course Length: Three years full-time

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SCULPTURE: In the Sculpture area students begin their study learning a variety of processes and skills including metalwork, woodwork, plaster, casting, wax and clay - which are taught in relation to ideas and contexts. As you move through years two and three, you will develop research skills by visiting museums and galleries and discussions with artists.

Alongside the process of making in the studio, you will explore current and emerging debates within art and learn how art institutions such as galleries and museums function, the role artists choose to take in relation to them.

What defines Sculpture is up for grabs - the world of ideas, matter and things are all open for consideration for those who make art.

STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAMME: Year one: You will be introduced to the full potential of the Cardiff School of Art & Design, its teaching philosophy, facilities, teaching areas, technical services and the general ambience of the city and its surrounding areas. In the first module you are able to select from a rich palette of media and skills to start to build your own artistic identity, at the end of which you will make an initial choice of specialist study. You are then based in one of the four disciplinary areas for the duration of the course but

given plenty of opportunity and support to work across areas if appropriate.

and support your understanding of the context within which artists work.

Year two: The second year is a time for greater speculation and experimentation. It is also a period when you can start to focus your personal interests and specialist skills. You will take part in group discussions, seminars, skills workshops as a complement to your studiobased practice. Overall, it will be a period of self-evaluation aimed at providing a deeper understanding of your unique concerns and creative personality.

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Year three: This year is often seen as the time for the consolidation of ideas and techniques, which have matured throughout the second year. However, it is important that this does not inhibit experimentation or curtail your willingness to take risks. In the final module you will mount a major exhibition that will be open the public, and is an opportunity to launch your future ambitions as a creative practitioner.

HISTORY AND THEORY OF ART: The history and theory of art component of the course is a vital source of ideas and references that will enrich your understanding of the discipline of Fine Art. It is taught through lectures, seminars and workshops designed to engage your intellect and imagination

You will be assessed throughout the course through practical studio-based projects and written assignments.

UCAS CODE(S): W100 (Route A), E100 (Route B) ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Foundation course in Art & Design, A Levels considered, dependant on portfolio. We have a very open mind to the qualifications you bring with you. We simply look to be convinced that you have the commitment to pursue this degree and the skills to make it worthwhile. We may ask you to bring a portfolio of your work to show us.

FURTHER INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/Fine-Art/ Admissions Tutors: Mark Halliday mhalliday@uwic.ac.uk Dave Shepherd dshepherd@uwic.ac.uk

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BA (HONS) FINE ART Campus: Howard Gardens Course Length: Three years full-time

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CAREER POTENTIAL: The combination of art and art history means you are very well placed to choose from a range of career options. These may include: advertising, artist, arts administration, broadcast and digital media production, media research, museum and gallery curation, journalism, publishing, teaching, and writing. The course also prepares you for postgraduate study and doctoral research in the visual arts, art history, cultural studies, and other related disciplines.

COURSE CONTENT: This course combines the breadth, stimulation and flexibility of the BA Fine Art course with detailed study of art history. Fine art and art history are taught as interrelated subjects, encouraging you to develop your own art practice in conjunction with historical examination of the ideas and processes which are central to your artwork. In the studio, specialist tuition is provided in a range of study areas, including: painting, sculpture, printmaking, and time-based practice. The areas covered within art history typically include: • key developments in the history of western art • modernism and postmodernism • the role of interpretation in history • place and nationality • museum and gallery studies • contemporary art theory.

The balance of history and practice is approximately 50:50, although you have some flexibility on this through selfdirected study modules.

informs and illuminates your practice as a contemporary artist.

Year one: A series of inductions is provided in a range of media and practices. You are able to work in several disciplinary areas during the first part of the year, at the end of which you make an initial choice of specialist study. In art history, you are introduced to key developments in the history of art, and to the central concepts through which art history is written and interpreted.

Studio work is assessed by exhibition, seminar presentation and viva voce examination. Theoretical work is assessed by written assignment, seminar presentation and viva voce examination.

ASSESSMENT:

UCAS CODE(S): WV13 (Route A), EV13 (Route B) ENTRY

Year two: The second year is the time when you begin to develop your chosen area of specialism.

Consideration is given to the contemporary nature of your practice, and to the various forms of exhibition or publication through which you might address your audience.

These aspects of practice are informed by historical and theoretical studies.

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Year three: This is the period when the practical-historical dialogue maintained throughout the course comes into its own. You exercise and extend the skill and understanding you have gained so far both in the studio, through artistic enquiry that is individual, accomplished and often innovative or daring, and in your dissertation, presented as a historical debate which

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160 UCAS Tariff Points from at least two A levels or equivalent.

We have a very open mind to the qualifications you bring with you. We simply look to be convinced that you have the commitment to pursue this degree and the skills to make it worthwhile. We may ask you to bring a portfolio of your work to show us.

INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/Fine-Art/ Programme Leader: Clive Cazeaux Ccazeaux@uwic.ac.uk

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BA (HONS) FINE ART & ART HISTORY* Campus: Howard Gardens Course Length: Three years full-time

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CAREER POTENTIAL: This combination means you are very well placed to choose from a range of career options.

These may include: advertising, artist, arts administration, broadcast and digital media production, media research, museum and gallery curation, journalism, publishing, teaching, and writing. The course also prepares you for postgraduate study and doctoral research in the visual arts, philosophy, cultural studies, and other related disciplines.

COURSE CONTENT: This course combines the breadth, stimulation and flexibility of the BA Fine Art course with detailed study of philosophy. Fine art and philosophy are taught as interrelated subjects, encouraging you to develop your own art practice in conjunction with philosophical examination of the ideas and processes which are central to your artwork. In the studio, specialist tuition is provided in a range of study areas, including: painting, sculpture, printmaking, and time-based practice. The areas covered within philosophy typically include: • the definition of art • aesthetics from Kant to the present • morality and the good in art • the nature of self • philosophies of embodiment and technology • contemporary art theory.

The balance of philosophy and practice is approximately 50:50, although you have some flexibility on this through selfdirected study modules.

as a philosophical debate which informs your practice as a contemporary artist.

Year one: A series of inductions is provided in a range of media and practices. You are able to work in several disciplinary areas during the first part of the year, at the end of which you make an initial choice of specialist study. In philosophy, you are introduced to art’s inherently philosophical nature through discussion of the definition of art, the interaction between art and language, and the relationship between mind and reality.

Studio work is assessed by exhibition, seminar presentation and viva voce examination. Theoretical work is assessed by written assignment, seminar presentation and viva voce examination.

Year two: The second year is the time when you begin to develop your chosen area of specialism.

Consideration is given to the contemporary nature of your practice, and to the various forms of exhibition or publication through which you might address your audience.

These aspects of practice are informed by philosophical and theoretical studies.

160 UCAS Tariff Points from at least two A levels or equivalent.

We have a very open mind to the qualifications you bring with you. We simply look to be convinced that you have the commitment to pursue this degree and the skills to make it worthwhile. We may ask you to bring a portfolio of your work to show us.

Year three: This is the period when the practical-philosophical dialogue maintained throughout the course comes into its own. You exercise and extend the skill and understanding you have gained so far both in the studio, through artistic enquiry that is individual, accomplished and often innovative or daring, and in your dissertation, presented

ASSESSMENT:

UCAS CODE(S): WV15 (Route A), EV15 (Route B) ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:

FURTHER INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/Fine-Art/ Programme Leader: Clive Cazeaux Ccazeaux@uwic.ac.uk

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BA (HONS) FINE ART & PHILOSOPHY* Campus: Howard Gardens Course Length: Three years full-time

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CAREER POTENTIAL: This combination of art practice and writing means you are very well placed to choose from a range of career options. These may include: advertising, artist, arts administration, broadcast and digital media production, media research, museum and gallery curation, journalism, publishing, teaching, and writing. The course also prepares you for postgraduate study and doctoral research in the visual arts, art writing, literary theory and other related disciplines.

COURSE CONTENT: This course is for students who want to explore writing in a fine art context, for example, art as text, words as physical forms, or critical writing on art. The course combines the breadth, stimulation and flexibility of the BA Fine Art course with detailed study of art as writing.

In the studio, specialist tuition is provided in a range of study areas, including: painting, sculpture, printmaking, and time-based practice. Attention is paid to the ways in which writing might occur in these or other media, and theoretical perspectives are offered on topics such as: metaphor, the relation between word and image, the nature of interpretation, and literary theory.

The balance of theory and practice is approximately 50:50, although you have some flexibility on this through selfdirected study modules.

Year one: A series of inductions is provided in a range of media and practices. You are able to work in several disciplinary areas during the first part of the year, exploring what is possible within the various media, at the end of which you make an initial choice of specialist study.

In writing seminars and theory modules, you are introduced to metaphor, art as text, critical writing on art, and the history of the relation between modern art and writing.

illuminates your practice as a contemporary artist-writer.

Year two: The second year is the time when you begin to develop your chosen area of specialism, although the opportunity to experiment and work across media is also available.

Consideration is given to the contemporary nature of your practice, and to the various forms of exhibition or publication through which you might address your audience.

These aspects of practice are informed by historical and philosophical theoretical studies.

WV18 (Route A), EV18 (Route B)

Year three: This is the period when the artwriting dialogue maintained throughout the course comes into its own. You exercise and extend the skill and understanding you have gained so far both in the studio, through visual-verbal enquiry that is individual, accomplished and often innovative or daring, and in your dissertation, presented as a theoretical debate which informs and

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ASSESSMENT: Studio work is assessed by exhibition or written assignment, seminar presentation and viva voce examination. Theoretical work is assessed by written assignment, seminar presentation and viva voce examination.

UCAS CODE(S):

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: 160 UCAS Tariff Points from at least two A levels or equivalent.

We have a very open mind to the qualifications you bring with you. We simply look to be convinced that you have the commitment to pursue this degree and the skills to make it worthwhile. We may ask you to bring a portfolio of your work to show us.

INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/Fine-Art/ Programme Leader: Clive Cazeaux Ccazeaux@uwic.ac.uk

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Our department consists of three dynamic programme areas embracing BA(Hons) Ceramics, BA(Hons) Contemporary Textile Practice and the pre-degree Foundation Course. What becomes immediately evident to students who enrol on these courses is the passion and commitment of the staff, many of whom are respected practitioners in their own fields. This rich and energetic environment provides a marvellous platform in which creativity and ideas prosper. The courses operate within a ‘real’ art school culture and students warm to this unique educational environment. Our goal is to further enhance the excellent reputation of our material art and foundation courses within the UK and beyond.

The department’s pre-degree Foundation programme offers students an excellent opportunity to progress onto higher-level courses within UWIC and throughout the UK. The Foundation programme is an intensive, creative and exciting programme of study and is designed to help students make informed decisions about higher-level course progression.

The Ceramics and Textiles programmes are focused on materials, processes and technologies, underpinned by experimentation, exploration, visual enquiry and research, creating innovative makers with future opportunities to develop onto MA and PhD level. These fundamental principles form the backbone of our courses giving students the necessary art & design skills to enter the artist/designermaker or associated fields and industries. The highly tactile nature of material arts embraces both traditional and innovative methods, always adapting to new technologies and constantly evolving and responding to change thus never standing still.

The attraction of our location within the capital city of Wales makes an ideal place to study along with all the facilities associated with a vibrant cosmopolitan city. If you have the necessary drive and commitment to follow one of our courses, then we’d certainly like to hear from you.

Robert Griffin Head of Material Arts & Foundation

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CAREER POTENTIAL: This course has an excellent reputation and a strong tradition of preparing students for further study in Higher Education in Art & Design throughout the UK. Many of our students choose to progress on to one of the degree courses available within the School and eventually progress into professional positions in all areas of Art and Design, including: Fine Art, Graphic Design, Media, 3D Design and Crafts, Fashion/Textiles and Teaching.

If you are bright, creative and enthusiastic and are thinking seriously about becoming a professional artist or designer; if you want to work and study alongside others who are as keen and talented as yourself, and can show us a strong portfolio of work, then you should take the first step in your training as a professional artist or designer by making an application to this course.

COURSE CONTENT: The course provides the first step in the training of creative artists and designers in all fields. It will enable you to make the transition from school, college or other backgrounds to the highly competitive and specialised demands of Higher Education within art and design.

Term one: You will begin the first term with an investigation of the fundamentals of visual language, through an intensive examination of drawing, colour and a range of basic 2D and 3D visual languages and processes.

Term two: In the second term, you will be able to choose an area of specialisation from the following: Fine Art (which covers painting, sculpture, printmaking), Graphic Design, (which covers illustration), Fashion/Textiles (which covers jewellery), 3D (which covers ceramics, product, interior, theatre and furniture design).

There will also be workshops in a number of technical areas.

Your studies are supported by written work and a lecture programme.

Term three: In the third term, you will work on a major personal project based on your chosen area of specialisation in term two, leading to an individual exhibition at the end of the term. On passing the course, you will be awarded the WJEC Level Three Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art & Design).

ASSESSMENT: You will be assessed throughout the course in both formal assessments and personal tutorials. These are conducted once each term, where interim grades and advice about your work and progress are given. The end of year Foundation Diploma is offered on the basis of a combination of your performance throughout the year, and your end of year individual exhibition.

VA L I DAT E D BY: WJEC ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: A good portfolio of practical art & design work, especially drawing from observation, and have one of the following: • Five passes at GCSE level at grade C or above (or equivalent) • Three passes at GCSE level at grade C or above (or equivalent) and one at A level/AS level or equivalent • Other degrees, diplomas, overseas or equivalent qualifications FURTHER INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/ artfoundation/ Programme Leader: David Gould dgould@uwic.ac.uk

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CAREER POTENTIAL: The main aim of the course is to develop artists and makers who are well informed and have the capacity to express their ideas through the medium of ceramics with clarity, imagination and confidence.

Graduates can follow a wide range of careers related to art practice, including establishing their own studios, working in community arts, art therapy and modelling for animation. A significant number of our graduates go on to undertake a masters programme before practising, or secure a PGCE, enabling them to teach as a career.

COURSE CONTENT: This is a vital, exciting and challenging course that encourages a wide, innovative and imaginative approach to clay based art practice. Central to the philosophy of the course is the emphasis we place upon fostering your creativity, through the evolution of visual and practical skills and technical understandings. History and theory forms an integral part of the course, enabling you to understand the ways in which your practice is informed by the work of artists, designers and makers in the past and influenced by the current theories and debates of today.

You will be taught by a team of highly experienced academic and technical staff, dedicated to ceramics. Their input is complimented by lectures and workshops, delivered by eminent visiting artists, makers and theorists from across the UK, Europe and other key centres in the world.

Year one: You will undertake a series of studio and workshop-based courses, introducing you to a range of methods of working with clay and other materials related to ceramics practice.

Ceramic technology, including firing and glazing, is taught in ways that will enable you to understand the principles and use the technology, practically and with confidence. Practical work is supported by historical and theoretical studies including visits to museums, exhibitions and workshops across the UK. Year two: You will build on your understanding and experiences of the first year and undertake more open-ended projects.

Individual direction and interpretation is encouraged, along with a self-directed study approach, through negotiation and close tutorial guidance.

Historical and theoretical studies focus increasingly on ceramics practice and you have the opportunity to specialise in your studies, according to your individual interests.

Year three: You are given the opportunity to further focus and consolidate your individual interests, producing a body of creative work for a public exhibition at the end of the course.

Throughout the final year, you will become responsible for negotiating and self-directing your studies under regular tutorial guidance, when initiative and independence are strongly encouraged.

ASSESSMENT: You are assessed through completed studio project work, essays and seminars throughout the course.

The degree classification is principally assessed by means of a final exhibition of work and an extended essay.

UCAS CODE(S): W232 (Route A), E232 (Route B) ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Foundation Course in Art & Design or equivalent, A levels accepted.

FURTHER INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/ baceramics/ www.cardiffceramics.com Acting Programme Leader: Duncan Ayscough dayscough@uwic.ac.uk

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CAREER POTENTIAL: Graduates follow a wide range of careers relating to textile activities - designers or maker/artists, or in associated areas where transferable skills are utilised.

COURSE CONTENT: This course will provide you with a rich educational and professional experience. It offers a broad education which challenges the individual; nurturing visual literacy, manual dexterity, theoretical and contextual understanding of design and making, together with a thorough and relevant professional training. In the second and third year, you will be encouraged to undertake relevant work during vacations.

Year one: The first year is broad based and will introduce you to an imaginative programme of themes linked to a variety of creative workshops. You will cover a diversity of specialisms such as printed textiles, fabric manipulation, stitch, papermaking, digital imagery and mixed media such as metal and plastics.

Year two: You are given the opportunity to identify one of two specialist routes - the Studio Designer or the Maker/Artist. The Studio Designer considers the role of the contemporary designer, particularly the freelance designer working within fashion or fabrics, and with surface

pattern for hard surfaces and paper, using both traditional and digital formats. The Maker/Artist explores materials, processes and the potency of objects, considering the possibilities of making limited editions for sale, commission installation pieces for exterior or interior environments, or works for galleries.

In addition to Studio Practice, a Core Studies programme includes visual studies, contextual and historical studies and professional practice, providing a diverse but relevant supporting structure to underpin the studio practice.

This is further supported by a lively programme of lectures and seminars delivered by an exciting range of specialist practitioners and theoreticians.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Foundation Course in Art & Design or equivalent, A levels accepted.

We have a very open mind to the qualifications you bring with you. We simply look to be convinced that you have the commitment to pursue this degree and the skills to make it worthwhile. We may ask you to bring a portfolio of your work to show us.

FURTHER INFORMATION: www. csad.uwic.ac.uk/ textiles Admissions Tutor: Dr. Helen Long hlong@uwic.ac.uk

Year three: In the final year you will focus on your own personal language of textiles and research programmes. Professional practice placements are encouraged both in the UK and abroad.

ASSESSMENT: You will be continuously assessed through a modular programme of practical and written projects.

UCAS CODE(S): W230 (Route A), E230 (Route B)

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Nothing seems to be more influential today than the media. We have grown to accept the power that the publishers of newspapers and magazines and the controllers of television channels have to inform (and misinform) people. But this power is challenged by the democratic potential of the internet and mobile media which puts the power to communicate back to ordinary people.

We passionately believe that graphic designers and illustrators must be ready to accept this shift; to embrace both new and traditional technologies and approaches and to mix techniques without prejudice. We do not separate our students by the technologies they utilise. That is why we offer a curriculum that mixes techniques such as printmaking and typography, which have been at the core of our culture for thousands of years, with the teaching of the craft of designing for mobile technologies and digital media. This combination of edgy forward thinking and a deep love of our history is what makes Creative Communication at Cardiff School of Art & Design such an exciting and relevant place to study in preparation for a career in the 21st Century.

I am lucky that my job is so easy, the staff in my department are expert, enthusiastic teachers and practicing artists and designers, who transmit their enthusiasm to the students. Cardiff is of course a great place to be a student, but it is fantastic to work in a vibrant and optimistic European capital city with a strong culture of creativity too.

Our studios at Llandaff are spacious and the architecture of our department encourages an intense and creative, community atmosphere.

Where you decide to go with your practice is in your hands, the opportunities are here for you to invent the future of the media world. Our aim is always to help students to develop the skills they need to be active employed and self-employed creative practitioners.

The shape of that future is very much up to you, this is not a factory, every one of our graduates is an independent and creative thinker.

Our graduates tell us that they are pleased they came to Cardiff School of Art & Design and the positive community culture that supported them.

If you want to be really good at what you do we‘d like to invite you to join our ambitious and open minded community.

Steve Thompson Head of Creative Communication

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CAREER POTENTIAL: New technologies mean that communication is undergoing an exciting evolution. If you are creative, curious, articulate and passionate about graphic communication, our programme allows you to develop your imagination with unrestricted creativity in order to prepare you for this ever changing landscape.

We have strong links with international design companies such as Enterprise IG, Together, Carter Wong Tomlin and The Partners. Graduates pursue high level design and research careers in print, digital screenbased media and the moving image.

COURSE CONTENT: The experienced team of tutor designers and technical demonstrators share a passion for innovative original and experimental work across a fantastic range of media and processes. Students learn how to use traditional and electronic media, how to approach a brief, how to research and think more creatively and to analyse design. Experimental and commercially oriented briefs allow the development of real professional skills. Through out the course visiting speakers with a range of expertise within graphic communication help students to prepare for the transition from study to employment.

Year one: The first year provides the basic principles of visual communication and the technical skills to help you communicate your ideas with originality and impact. Students are encouraged to create their own words and images and to interpret content provided by others: poetic, lyrical, informational, formal, informal, dramatic or political.

Workshops and studio practice is complemented by Critical and Contextual Studies, which deals with how we communicate and how we make sense of the world.

Year two: Year Two provides an opportunity for specialisation in either word-based, imagebased or digital screen-based communication. Professional skills are developed following briefings from real clients with real communication problems to solve. Year Two ends with a formal Exhibition from which a number of local and national design companies select students for summer workexperience.

Year three: The third year focuses on the professional and creative challenge of live briefs and competitions and to create their own projects. Professional studies prepares the students for life after the programme.

ASSESSMENT: Students are continually assessed throughout the course through practice based studio projects and written assignments.

UCAS CODE(S): W210 (Route A), E210 (Route B) ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Entry is via portfolio interview.

International students can apply via an electronic portfolio submission.

Your portfolio should show creative experimentation, communication and problemsolving abilities. Your interview should reveal your enthusiasm and aptitude for your chosen profession. We have an open mind regarding the qualifications you bring with you but we do need to be convinced that you have the commitment to pursue this degree and the skills to make it worthwhile.

FURTHER INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/graphics Admissions Tutor: Kevin Edge kedge@uwic.ac.uk Programme Leader: Ruth Dineen rdineen@uwic.ac.uk

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CAREER POTENTIAL: On completion of the programme, graduate will typically be employed in careers in film, media and advertising, picture editing, curatorship, research, teaching, publishing, journalism and much more!

The degree delivers an excellent range of transferable skills required for most employment, specialist training or postgraduate study.

The degree becomes more specifically orientated to your own specific interests as it progresses from year to year.

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Year one: You will be introduced to the important philosophies and methodologies which will build a foundation for your degree.

You will begin to understand how to articulate the visual language around you and its underlying ideologies. You will begin to understand how these apply to different media and texts.

COURSE CONTENT: This programme is unique in that it combines a specific understanding of contemporary visual media with the ways in which we attempt to make sense of ourselves in an increasingly image-saturated society. It will provide students with knowledge and understanding of media studies, its history, genres and forms in relation to broader social, cultural, political and theoretical contexts. It enables you to work across a number of texts/mediums such as art, architecture, newspapers, magazines, television, films and even fashion. It introduces you to the major thinkers and theoretical debates about how our contemporary culture and its future are dominated by the visual.

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Year two: You will begin to specialise in certain media, as well continuing to develop a more specific and sophisticated understanding and articulation of the visual cultures and practices that surround you.

REQUIREMENTS: 160-280 points on the UCAS tariff, (or equivalent) preferably including media studies, art history or sociology, mainly from A level or equivalent qualifications/experience, which we are happy to discuss with you at interview.

FURTHER INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/ mediastudies/ Admissions Information: Ashley Morgan asmorgan@uwic.ac.uk

Year three: You will become even more specialised, engaging in two dissertations which reflect your developed interests and your possible career interests. You will also be trained in professional verbal/visual presentation techniques, which will enable you to present your research to a large public audience, which will be part of your final assessment.

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CAREER POTENTIAL: It isn’t just about the technology any more. The opportunities and problems that come along with the changes we are seeing in interactive TV, web products and systems, music production, interactive and networked art, content for wireless mobile platforms, architecture and games design industry for example, provide many opportunities for graduates.

Aside from their technical abilities, the world is looking for creative graduates who can bring their imagination and strategic skills to understand the wider social and creative potentials of this new world.

COURSE CONTENT: The course is relevant, intuitive technical and creative. Our people and spaces provide everything we need to give students the chance to be better, more creative and flexible experts. By working alongside other students and with our tutor designers, technicians and researchers students develop a rich and speculative understanding of design, interactivity and new media that prepares them to lead and create within a changing economic, social and cultural environment. Studio practice is supported by seminars and lectures which explore a diverse range of philosophical and contextual ideas.

Students work together making the most of the projects and workshops as well as our fully

equipped laboratory and studio spaces. Wired and Wireless internet connectivity for all students, as well as the opportunity to use sound studios, art and performance spaces, editing facilities and most important of all - the inspiration of others.

Year one: We introduce students to the key skills that are needed for the media age. These include, visual communication, humantechnology interaction, radical thinking, game play as well as the means to develop technical solutions.

Year two: The second year builds on these skills with an emphasis on communication design, narrative strategies and production essentials. There is also more emphasis on more focused design methodologies and professional practice as students develop their evaluative and critical abilities.

Year three: In the final year the emphasis is placed upon students to define their own expertise and to locate themselves within a creative research and professional context. This selfdirected learning allows students to make full use of their creativity, strategic abilities and flexibility.

Transition from study to work is often sorted out long before graduation. For this reason, at every stage of the programme, we encourage students to work

within a professional environment on ‘live' projects.

Graduates can take the ideas they have developed forward to become one of our postgraduate researchers.

This programme is also offered as a top-up third year. Please contact the programme leader for further information.

ASSESSMENT: You are continually assessed throughout the programme through practical and written projects.

UCAS CODE(S): BA: GW42 MINIMUM ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: A levels considered dependent on portfolio. We have a very open mind to the qualifications you bring with you. We simply look to be convinced that you have the commitment to persue this degree and the skills to make it worthwhile. We may ask you to bring a portfolio of your work to show us.

FURTHER INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/under www.dfim.uwic.ac.uk Programme Leader: Stuart Neil sneil@uwic.ac.uk

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CAREER POTENTIAL: Illustration is currently enjoying a renaissance, while the demand for innovative and multi-skilled illustrators remains constant. Illustrators can purse careers within the expanding world of animation and game design, conceptual design for film and television, advertising, scientific and product visualisation. Markets for fine art and authorial illustration have grown, alongside traditional client-led practice.

Graduates may find career pathways in other areas where a high level of communication and creative skills are required.

COURSE CONTENT: Activities are centred around helping each student find their creative voice and informing the future direction and purpose of their work.

To engage with new opportunities and rapid technological and cultural shifts, the successful illustrator needs a range of practical abilities and the willingness to adapt their work to different contexts and purposes.

The course content is therefore designed to students to operate in multi-tasking situations, where digital and hand-crafted processes interconnect.

Students are encouraged to develop their portfolios and skill-base by taking part in selfauthored as well as collaborative projects.

From first to final year, there will be a progression from tutor-led to negotiated projects, enabling you to identify and develop a direction and emphasis for your work. You will develop awareness of the demands of professional and commercial practice, a process enhanced in year three by live projects. This aspect of your development will be supported by wider-ranging modules exploring illustration’s contemporary and historical contexts.

The programme is taught by artist- teachers and lecturers with extensive professional experience within commercial and educational illustration, graphic design, animation design, fashion and information illustration, fine art, exhibitions, printmaking and bookmaking.

A range of visiting speakers with niche expertise in illustration and creative business also support the course.

The principal aspects of the programme are: • Illustration studies: the development of the practice of visual communication, with some emphasis on the relationship between words and images • Drawing and visual experiment: establishing the foundation and the structure for illustration and visual communication • Critical and cultural studies: providing a background of visual culture, and the contextual and theoretical

means to reflect and understand how and why illustrations communicate with their audiences • Professional studies: preparation for the realities of the areas of the visual communication industry in which illustrators practise.

ASSESSMENT: Throughout this course you will be assessed through a combination of practical based work and written projects.

UCAS CODES: W220 (Route A), E220 (Route B) ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Foundation course in Art & Design, A Levels considered, dependant on portfolio. We have a very open mind to the qualifications you bring with you. We simply look to be convinced that you have the commitment to pursue this degree and the skills to make it worthwhile. We may ask you to bring a portfolio of your work to show us.

FURTHER INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/illustration Programme Leader: Chris Glynn cglynn@uwic.ac.uk

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NEW FOR 2008!

BSc QUANTITY SURVEYING Llandaff Cardiff School of Art & Design are pleased to announce that negotiations are underway with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with a view to establishing a BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying.

This new development will mean that Cardiff will have an innovative undergraduate programme, accredited by the RICS, that will provide an entry route into this complex and exciting profession.

A part-time route through the degree will also be available, providing opportunities for existing practitioners to upgrade their qualifications and skills.

The award will be on offer from September 2009, with a possibility that we can launch the degree for September 2008. If you would like to know more about this, or would like to register an interest, please contact us. We will be happy to help.

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The courses offered by the Architectural Studies Department encompass a wide spectrum of activities ranging from conceptual architectural design processes and technical detailing through to project planning and property maintenance.

Employment prospects across all disciplines are excellent, with final year students in many cases receiving job offers before they have even completed their courses. Former students of the Architectural Studies Department can now be found working all around the world, and we are delighted, although frankly not surprised, to receive many glowing reports from employers concerning the quality of our graduates.

Environmental issues are of course at the top of everyone’s agenda these days and the Architectural Studies Department is no exception.

We are keenly aware of the significant responsibility placed upon all those involved in the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment to protect the natural environment, and so you will find that sustainability is a key theme which permeates through all our courses. This is no mere lip service to this most vital of issues, but a genuine commitment to empower our students to design and build with integrity and sensitivity.

Courses are centred around design studios which provide wonderfully vibrant environments for stimulating creative activity and discussion. You will find that our staff are extraordinarily passionate about what they do, and are committed to providing students with a first-class learning experience. The truth is that there is much in the built environment which fails to rise above mediocrity – our goal is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills and desire to aim for, and achieve, excellence. So be prepared to be challenged to think in new ways and to question conventions.

Make no mistake about it, we expect a lot from our students, but we can guarantee that your time in UWIC will be enriching and thoroughly enjoyable.

If you have any questions about the courses described in the following pages, please don’t hesitate to contact the programme leaders who will be very happy to help.

Nick Evans Head of Architectural Studies

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(also available part-time; and available part-time as an HNC)

CAREER POTENTIAL: Graduates can expect to follow rewarding careers as architectural technologists in a range of organisations that require the specialist technical design skills this course provides. Most graduates find employment with architectural practices, although opportunities exist with building contractors or any large corporate company that has its own in-house design team. Careers can also be pursued in more specialist areas such as project management or architectural conservation.

The course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists and graduates will be eligible, after a period of relevant experience, for full membership at Technician grade.

Many of our graduates will be offered the opportunity to progress to the final year of the BSc (Hons) Architectural Design & Technology degree upon successful completion of the HND. COURSE CONTENT: The course aims to provide you with the necessary skills to become effective and integral members of design teams and to assist architects in the detailed design and construction of a range of building types.

Working in a studio environment, you will study building techniques, materials and services and will learn to apply your knowledge through project work. A range of different graphic techniques will be employed, including manual draughting, concentrating on the use of computer aided design techniques.

Year one: You are introduced to core subjects of building technology, materials and environmental science and supporting subjects such as architectural draughting and Computer Aided Design (CAD).

Year two: You will cover further building technology and be introduced to other subjects such as building contract law and economics. There is also a major project that allows you to integrate theory with practice.

ASSESSMENT: You will be continually assessed throughout the course and undertake a number of assignments and design projects. There will also be examinations in some areas.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: 120 UCAS Tariff Points from at least one A Level, or equivalent.

“The Architectural Design and Technology course was interesting, enjoyable and provided me with the necessary skills and knowledge to obtain work in an architectural practice.

Whilst at UWIC I learned to manage my own time in order to achieve deadlines. This has enabled me to contribute effectively in a commercial working environment.�

Paul Craig White Young Green Planning & Design

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CAREER POTENTIAL: Graduates can expect to follow rewarding careers as architectural technologists in a range of organisations that require the specialist technical design skills this course of study provides. Most graduates follow careers in architectural practice, although opportunities exist in other organisations that have their own design teams such as building contractors or large corporate companies.

Careers can also be pursued in related areas such as project management and architectural conservation. Graduates will be eligible, after a period of relevant experience, to apply for full membership of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists to become a Chartered Architectural Technologist.

COURSE CONTENT: Course activity is centred on our well-equipped studioslively and stimulating spaces where students and tutors interact in a variety of different ways; some formal others more relaxed, but all designed to encourage creative and analytical thinking. You will learn about different building techniques, materials and other factors that impact on the technical design of buildings.

The course enables students to develop key presentational skills, including the use of computer-aided design (CAD) and apply a creative attitude to the detailed design of projects.

You will also develop an appreciation of the historical context of architectural design; will learn the values of environmentally responsive building design and study innovative building techniques.

Year one: You will be introduced to core subjects of building technology, materials and environmental science and supporting subjects such as architectural draughting and CAD. Year two: You will cover further building technology and other subjects such as building contract law and economics. There is a greater emphasis on integrating acquired knowledge through design project modules where students can connect theory with practice.

Year three: The focus of the final year is around two major design-based projects and a dissertation.

You will also cover specialist subjects in architectural conservation, management and professional studies.

ASSESSMENT: You will be continually assessed throughout the course and undertake a number of assignments and design projects. There will also be examinations in some areas.

UCAS CODE: W290 ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: 200 UCAS Tariff Points from at least two A Levels (or equivalent).

FURTHER INFORMATION: casd.uwic.ac.uk/ architecture Admissions Tutor: Anthony Whyman twhyman@uwic.ac.uk

“We fully support the excellent work at UWIC which, from our experience, produces well balanced Architectural Technology graduates with a sound knowledge of building construction as well as an appreciation of architectural design and the process of building.�

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CAREER POTENTIAL:

SUBJECT AREAS:

Graduates will be eligible for employment with a wide range of organisations. All buildings require maintenance and the ability to effectively manage this process is valued by local authorities, housing associations, the owners of commercial property, surveying practices, contractors and others. There are also good prospects for starting new businesses in this area of activity.

• The construction of buildings, maintenance technology and techniques • The management of building maintenance works • Business organisation and management • Property and contract law • Surveying buildings • Finance and economics related to property maintenance.

COURSE CONTENT: The built environment is all around us. It is houses, factories, offices, shops, roads, car parks and underground services. Many will take this infrastructure for granted but it is not permanent; if it is not regularly maintained it will quickly deteriorate. This course aims to prepare you to manage that maintenance process safely, effectively and economically. There are many elements to the course to reflect the diversity of skills that the maintenance manager must possess, from managing a business to organising the repair of a dangerous structure.

It is never less than an exciting and demanding job.

ASSESSMENT: You are continuously assessed by projects and examinations.

Where appropriate, projects are practical in nature and include visiting and surveying a range of properties.

ACCREDITED BY: The Institute of Maintenance & Building Management

“In the UK buildings are major consumers of energy, water and materials and have significant effects on the environment and also on the health and productivity of their occupiers. They account for 50% of total greenhouse gas emission, with the production of materials accounting for a further 10%. We need nothing less than a radical transformation in the way we approach the creation of a sustainable built environment- incremental change is a luxury we can no longer afford.”

UCAS CODE(S): K490 MINIMUM ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: 180 UCAS Tariff Points from at least two A levels or equivalent.

We have a very open mind to the qualifications you bring with you. We simply look to be convinced that you have the commitment to pursue this degree and the skills to make it worthwhile. We may ask you to bring a portfolio of your work to show us.

UK Green Building Council FURTHER INFORMATION: casd.uwic.ac.uk/ construction Programme Leader: Simon Cousins scousins@uwic.ac.uk Part-time HNC and HND in Building Technology & Management also available.

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CAREER POTENTIAL: The world of the built environment is at a critical tipping point. After centuries of obsessing with the singular focus of ‘the new’, the shift is at last to the remodelling of what exists, and to the ecological recycling of redundant buildings. This has always been the realm of Interior Architecture. A small percentage of our students have always gone into architectural postgraduate qualifications (after a period in practice), with this distinct degree in Interior architecture as their bedrock. (The course is now currently seeking RIBA validation on top of its current validation.) The majority of students find excellent work in interiors and architectural firms and also in the worlds of exhibition and museum design, furniture, product and theatre design. A few follow the pathways to design journalism, project management, environmental research, design teaching and post grads in design history and theory.

COURSE CONTENT: As the UK’s first accredited Interior Architecture course (in 1989) we regard design as a creative but analytical process developed through a critical response to any challenge set.

A passion for poetic assembly is encouraged and our focus is on creating distinctive moods for distinctive cultures - we look at the re-modelling of every aspect of existing buildings, not simply the surface decoration

and domestic ‘makeovers’ of ‘Changing Rooms’.

Energy conservation and ecological services design has been a long-standing part of the second year curriculum, balanced by socio-political issues and debates throughout the whole three years.

Year one: An intensive series of conceptual and analytical design exercises in the Winter term is followed by two/three five week design projects to rattle the cage of what is possible. 19th and 20th century design philosophies are explored along with the fundamentals of materials and making. Foundation skills in CAD visualisation, technical hand-drawing and verbal presentation are delivered.

Weekly ‘Issues in Contemporary Design’ theory seminars are held in group seminar formats with three essays delivered in the year.

Year two: Two or three major projects are addressed - the first exhibition related, the others allowing students to invent their own programmes for a selected series of real urban buildings.

The weekly theory series of video seminars wraps around the delivery of a 3500 word seminar paper and leads to the development of the dissertation outline for Year three. Intense detailing and fabrication knowledge is developed alongside graphic document layout skills.

Year three: A 10,000 word dissertation (20% of the degree) is completed with support through one-to-one tutorials; a professional practice exam forms 5% and the remaining 75% is focussed on two studio projects (60% on the major selfchoice project).

ASSESSMENT: Progress through the course is based on continuous assessment.

UCAS CODES(S): W250 ( Route A), E250 ( Route B) ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: 200-280 UCAS Tariff Points, dependant on portfolio and interview. Advice on portfolio and interview will be provided on application. Alternatively a foundation year in art and design is acceptable.

FURTHER INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/ intarchitecture Programme Leader: Patrick Hannay pahnnay@uwic.ac.uk

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Croeso! Welcome to the Department of Design Technologies at CSAD. Our commitment is to produce designers, technologists and engineers, who will play an important part in shaping all our futures.

The courses foreground the relationship between people, products and the environment and centre the student as a learner.

You will have plenty of opportunities to explore and experiment with the design possibilities that interest you. We aim to provide you with the design skills, contextual understanding and analytical approaches that will mark you out as an employable graduate.

The Department brings together product design with applied technologies, and engineering. Our resources are such that we can help you move easily from design concepts to manufacturing solutions.

Our equipment is first rate and we benefit from proximity to UWIC’s nationally recognised Product Design Research Institute. Importantly, we offer two masters programmes in product design, enabling the best of our graduates to extend their studies with us.

We are especially interested in Cradle to Cradle thinking on sustainability and in 2007/8 will be extended our research interests and teaching in this area. Indeed, we are very proud to say that Dr Michael Braungart is currently our Visiting Professor.

We have a number of significant research projects that are attracting national and international interest, and of course you will benefit from these in your studies.

This prospectus gives you details of the product design programme at CSAD. We also run programmes in applied technologies and engineering systems development. These are listed in this prospectus; further information can be given on request.

I look forward to meeting you and wish you well with your studies.

Martin Biffin Head of Design Technologies

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CAREER POTENTIAL: Product designers are highly creative problem solvers who apply their knowledge and skill to create desirable products.

The professional nature of our courses prepares you for the creative demands made of the practicing designer. Upon completion of this course graduates will be extremely creative, motivated and above all versatile individuals, capable of working in a design role, management role, running their own company, involved in research, design education, marketing, sales, model making and much more.

COURSE CONTENT: During year one, the BA and BSc route have approximately an 80% commonality. Our first class computer and workshop facilities enable you to develop state of the art CAD/CAMM skills and to develop working prototypes to prove a design concept. We are keen to interact with industry and run ‘live’ projects with national and international organisations such as Dyson, Linpac, GUL International. Product design at UWIC has also won prestigious competitions such as the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), Corus etc.

Year one: • Effective Communication of Design • The Design Process & User Needs • Computer Aided Technical Design • IT & Research Studies • Design in Context • Engineering Science.

Year two: • Design for Manufacture • CAD-CAM • Marketing & Conceptual Development • Information Ergonomics • Project Selection & Management • Design & Society in 19th/ 20th Centuries • Dissertation Chapter 1.

Year three: • Business management & professional practise • Design for a Competition • Dissertation • Major Project, product related • Major Project, system related.

UCAS CODE(S): W240 (Route A), E240 (Route B) ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: A minimum grade B in Design Technology or Art, and a C in one other subject at A Level or equivalent; or a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design. Points not accepted. We have a very open mind to the qualifications you bring with you. We simply look to be convinced that you have the commitment to pursue this degree and the skills to make it worthwhile.

FURTHER INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/ productdesign Admissions Tutor: Glyn Stockton gstockton@uwic.ac.uk

ASSESSMENT: You will be assessed throughout the course through practical and written work.

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CAREER POTENTIAL: Product designers are highly creative problem solvers who apply their knowledge and skill to create desirable products.

The professional nature of our courses prepares you for the creative demands made of the practicing designer. Upon completion of this course graduates will be extremely creative, motivated and above all versatile individuals, capable of working in a design role, management role, running their own company, involved in research, design education, marketing, sales, model making and much more.

COURSE CONTENT: During year one, the BA and BSc route have approximately an 80% commonality. This course has an emphasis on how the product works and the technical issues involved in the Design Process. Our first class computer and workshop facilities enable you to develop state of the art CAD/CAMM skills and to develop working prototypes to prove a design concept. We are keen to interact with industry and run ‘live’ projects with national and international organisations such as Dyson, Linpac, GUL International. Product design at UWIC has also won prestigious competitions such as the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), Corus etc.

Year one: • Effective Communication of Design • The Design Process & User Needs • Computer Aided Technical Design • IT & Research Studies • Engineering Science for Product Designers • Electronics for Product Designers.

Year two: • Design for Manufacture • CAD-CAM • Marketing & Conceptual Development • Information Ergonomics • Project Selection & Management • Mechanical Engineering (inc FEA) • Digital Electronics.

Year three: • Business Management & Professional Practise • Integrated Design and Concurrent Engineering • Design for a Competition • Advanced Design Option • Major Project.

UCAS CODE(S): W2H1 (Route A), E2H1 (Route B) ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: A minimum grade B in Design Technology or Art, and a C in one other subject at A Level or equivalent; or a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design. Points not accepted. We have a very open mind to the qualifications you bring with you. We simply look to be convinced that you have the commitment to pursue this degree and the skills to make it worthwhile.

FURTHER INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/ productdesign Admissions Tutor: Glyn Stockton gstockton@uwic.ac.uk

ASSESSMENT: You will be assessed throughout the course through practical and written work.

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OTHER PROGRAMMES The school also offers the following engineering based courses on a full and part-time basis.

Many of these courses are professionally accredited by the Incorporated Institute of Engineers, meaning our students graduate with the right skills and knowledge to enter the industry at the highest level.

FOUNDATION DEGREE Foundation Leading to BSc Engineering Systems APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES HND/BSc (Hons) Music & Audio Electronic Systems HND/BSc (Hons) Music Production & Technology HND/BSc (Hons) Medical Technology BSc (Hons) Sport Technology ENGINEERING HND/BSc (Hons) Electronic Communication Systems HND/BSc (Hons) Electronic Control Systems HND/BSc (Hons) Electronic Microcomputer Systems HND Engineering (Electrical)/ BSc (Hons) Electrical Systems Engineering HND Engineering (Mechanical)/ BSc (Hons) Mechanical Systems Engineering For further information about any of these courses please visit our website at: csad.uwic.ac.uk/engineeringsystemsdesign

“I thoroughly enjoyed my time at UWIC. Lecturers were very approachable and the course was flexible and relevant to my career development.”

Andrew Tudball BSc (Hons) Electrical Systems Engineering

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CAREER POTENTIAL: A very high percentage of our graduates practise professionally, many exhibiting work developed through their MA studies and links established with galleries and other agencies or organisations associated with the visual arts.

Some establish their own studios and others base themselves in co-operative studios. A steadily increasing number are pursuing research degrees (M.Phil./PhD), either within the School or in other institutions and establish themselves as researchers or teachers and it is interesting to note the number of other courses in the UK, which have Cardiff graduates on their staff.

COURSE CONTENT: This course will enable you to identify your true interests and concerns as an artist, designer or maker and allow you to develop appropriate methods to explore your ideas and articulate or express them effectively in imaginative or innovative ways. It will engage you with the key theories and contemporary debates, fostering your understanding of how these influence the development, expression and communication of your ideas and their impact upon the success of your future practice as an artist, maker or academic.

This course is one of the longest established Masters programmes in Ceramics in the UK. It is the only one where it is possible to progress from

undergraduate BA (Hons) to postgraduate studies (MA) and through to research degrees (M.Phil. and PhD) and then post doctoral research, within a single centre. Over four hundred graduates (with nearly a third from countries outside the UK) have successfully completed the one year fulltime and two year part-time routes.

You will have access to an exceptionally wide range of knowledge and expertise and well-equipped workshops and specialist facilities, supported by highly experienced technical staff. You will also have access to an individual studio workspace.

The course is arranged in ways, which will enable you to learn and develop by identifying and then focussing progressively on your particular interests and ambitions, under close tutorial supervision. A key part of this process is the development of methods and strategies for the conceptualisation and expression of ideas, while exploiting the unique material and visual properties of the medium of ceramics.

Within the taught programme, an overarching series of lectures and seminars will provide you with grounding in research methods and engage you with key contemporary debates.

strengthen existing knowledge and experience, and are run throughout the year. As the programme progresses, your practice is supported by individual and group tutorials.

At key stages in the development of a project, visual presentations are employed to identify main concerns, to document progress and enhance your overall student experience. The balance of study time is normally 75% practice, and 25% theory.

ASSESSMENT: You are assessed through completed projects of studio practical work and research, based upon visual and written text.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Applicants should have one of the following: • A good Honours degree (in an appropriate discipline) • Have appropriate professional experience within the subject • Strong portfolio of work.

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CAREER POTENTIAL: Graduates from this course have found they are better placed to take up positions in teaching, arts administrations, art therapy and the creative industries in general. They may also promote to their advantage their careers as artists after this sustained study.

The programme also seeks to provide a theoretical basis an artist’s practice. You will develop a good knowledge of important contemporary arts, as well as it historical underpinnings, and theoretical tools for the analysis. This is set in the context of the economic, social and political forces that inevitably come to bear on our activities as artists.

COURSE CONTENT: Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, this MA in Fine Art has proved itself to be one of the UK’s leading postgraduate Fine Art courses. The course continues to evolve in keeping with the art world and developments in education whilst maintaining its traditions of excellence.

Staff involved in the course, all of whom are actively involved in making and/or writing about art, deliver the course as an ongoing dialogue. When you leave the course, you won’t just be a better artist than when you arrived, but will also be in a stronger position to exploit your competences in relation to the art world, by making a living as a practitioner, or with the cultural industries.

The course aims to assist art practitioners to develop a thorough knowledge of materials, equipment and working processes through fulfilment of a studio project, this will be devised at the beginning of the course with tutorial guidance.

The practical and theoretical strands of the course are combined as complementary parts of the total workshop practice, the artist as a doer and thinker, a member of the community and as part of society at large. In addition to studio practice, the modular programme is structured around formal lectures and seminars, as well as tutorials and daytime visits. Also important to the course are study visits to locations both in the U.K. and abroad.

“The MA programme is now celebrating its 20th anniversary.

Over the years, it has proven itself to be one of the leading postgraduate Fine Art Programmes in the UK.” Professor Gaynor Kavanagh DPhl MPhil FMA Dean of Cardiff School of Art & Design

ASSESSMENT: Assessment is by combination of practical assessments, essays, a dissertation and a final exhibition.

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CAREER POTENTIAL: The course is principally aimed at enabling graduates to develop their careers in the manufacturing sector. On completion of the course, graduates could expect to develop their careers towards middle and senior management in the area of product development where their strategic thinking skills, commercial understanding, project management experience and deeper technological knowledge would be beneficial.

COURSE CONTENT: State-of-the-art knowledge and technology: The Cardiff School of Art & Design has substantial expertise in the delivery of courses at the interface of engineering and product design, while the National Centre for Product Design & Development Research (PDR) is one of the UK's leading centres for Rapid Product Development. The key focus of PDR is product development and its expertise covers the whole process from design management, concept and detailed design, ergonomics and CAD to prototyping, tooling and batch manufacture.

The Cardiff School of Art & Design and the National Centre for Product Design & Development Research have pooled their substantial expertise in this area to produce this unique course that will equip you with an advanced knowledge of the technologies, tools and techniques being used by today's most successful product developers and manufacturers.

It is understood that applicants will come from diverse backgrounds; therefore graduates will initially undertake a negotiated study element to ensure that you have the appropriate prerequisite knowledge.

“I have found the programme to be very useful and have been able to implement learning from the programme in my commercial practice immediately.”

John Davies Research & Development

The body of the course will develop expertise in the area of Rapid Product Development (RPD) through the study of:

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Coursework, exams, presentation and dissertation.

INFORMATION:

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REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must have an Honours degree in engineering, applied science or product design, or equivalent.

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CAREER POTENTIAL: Cardiff School of Art & Design and the National Centre for Product Design & Development Research (PDR) have pooled their substantial design and manufacturing expertise; consulting with employers, international students and undergraduates to produce this unique course that will equip you with an advanced knowledge of the techniques, technologies and tools being used by today's designers.

The course is principally aimed at enabling graduates to develop their careers in product design, design management and product development. It will produce graduates who fully understand commercial realities and design's role in business; appreciate the whole design development process and how the research and development phase inspires the final product. On completion of the course, graduates could expect to find employment in design consultancies, manufacturing, or companies dealing in the development of so called 'information appliances' such as mobile phones.

COURSE CONTENT: Working under pressure and to tight timescales, but supported by constructive criticism, you will develop your design for manufacture skills, gaining an understanding of sustainability, learning 3D CAD and CAM and developing traditional techniques such as sketching,

dealing with form, communication and developing presentation skills. Innovation is central to the course. Realising that innovation is aided by access to state-of-the-art knowledge and technology.

The course taps into the cutting edge research and development work being carried out in the field of product design and rapid product manufacture with companies such as SonyEricsson and Samsung along with three of the UK's top five design consultancies.

A key advantage of the course is its industrial placement. You will be offered assistance in gaining a placement either in industry or within PDR. You will also be in a position to draw on real-world case studies from PDR. In addition to the placement, the course will give you exposure to real commercial situations through industrial partners who will provide lecturing input and genuine "live" case studies for you to work on.

All students studying for the MSc will undertake the following common modules: • Product Design Principles and Practice • Sustainability Issues in Design for Production • Research Techniques & Principles • User Testing & Evaluation • Form Shape & Colour A Professional Development Portfolio module is also included to enable you to focus the course on your individual career aspirations.

ASSESSMENT: Assessment will be through coursework and presentations.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must have an Honours degree (normally at 2:1 or above) in engineering, applied science or product design, or equivalent.

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For your placement and major project, you can choose to specialise in either Rapid Product Development (which focuses on the design and development of products through to manufacture using rapid product development techniques), or Computer Embedded Devices (which develops techniques for designing and prototyping information appliances such as mobile phones).

INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/MscAPD/ Programme Leader: Steve Gill sjgill@uwic.ac.uk or call 029 2041 6732

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The School is host to a wide variety of exciting research into Art & Design. Research is undertaken within Groups and Centres, some of which are described below. Most of the School’s staff are research active, a practice which is actively encouraged partly because of the positive effects on the teaching programme.

CENTRE FOR FINE ART RESEARCH The Centre for Fine Art Research provides a medium through which a number of groups with differing interests within the same generic field can interact and collaborate.

The Centre’s groups include: PA I N T I N G R E S E A R C H GROUP

THE SENSORY DESIGN RESEARCH GROUP The Group’s aim is to design, develop and distribute a range of experiential, sensory and educational technologies. Its Reactive Colours project has secured support funding from National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and interest from many organisations including Smart Technologies Limited, Architects of Air, National Autistic Society UK and from Autism Cymru. Recently the group’s leader, Wendy KeayBright was presented with an honorary Autism Cymru S4C Charity of the Year Award in recognition of her work.

Members of the Group use journeys as inspiration for new workings. Along the way they are creating a ‘museum’ of materials that contextualise and examine their individual thinking in the context of the creative process.

COLLOQUIUM FOR THE STUDY OF WALKING AS A VISUAL PRACTICE RESEARCH GROUP A peer network of international artists is being established by the Colloquium to develop the concept of walking as an art practice.

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The many possible ways in which textiles may interface with digital textile practice is being researched by this Group who wish to analyse technology’s impact on creativity and innovation.

MEDIA GROUP Promotes original investigation in the fields of the history and theory of art, design and media.

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Creates print-based works of art in collaboration with artists such as Ivor Davies, Terry Setch and Mary Lloyd Jones. Mary has worked with the Group extensively over the past two years and is soon to have a major launch of her digital work at the National Library of Wales, the design and production of which has been in collaboration with the PROOF members.

In January 2007, CSAD hosted a very successful three day international conference called Creativity or Conformity: Building Cultures of Creativity in Higher Education.

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN CERAMICS This Centre’s wide ranging research includes the preparation of Jeffrey Jones’ book The Studio Potter in Britain due for publication in 2007, the launch of Interpreting Ceramics, a refereed international journal: www.interpretingceramics. com and the Researching Ceramics Online Database: www.researchingceramics. net THE SOCIAL ROLE OF DESIGN RESEARCH GROUP This Group sets out to investigate, develop and propose strategies for the social role of design in a wide variety of situations, including design education, especially in lowincome economies.

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It focused on how the tensions of today’s audit-driven culture with its emphasis on target, is affecting Higher Education when it is widely agreed that students learn best when they are strongly motivated in an open, flexible and creative environment. The conference has provided the impetus for an in-depth study into how best to support this type of teaching.

The Cardiff School of Art & Design welcomes research degree applications in the field of Art, Design & Design Technologies.

The School’s research mission focuses on the areas of strategic and applied research within creative practice and research activities reflect the close links that have been created between the School and creative industries, the cultural sector, manufacturing, the professions and the community. Its research is recognised as playing a key role in supporting the economic, social and cultural development in Wales and the UK. The School provides opportunities to undertake supervised research that lead to the awards of Master of Philosophy (MPhil) (1-2 years full-time, 2 - 5 years part-time) or Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (3- 4 years full-time, 4 - 7 years part-time). The awards of MPhil and PhD are achieved through a sustained piece of original investigative research and the presentation of a thesis.

“Many students successfully secure grants or awards covering tuition fees and maintenance for their research degree studies, most notably from Art & Humanities Research Council (AHRC).”

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All research students are given research degree training at Institutional level, which, in addition to preparing you for your studies will allow you the opportunity to meet research students from other disciplines.

All candidates for MPhil or PhD are also required to undertake a course in research methods that better equips them to undertake research.

UWIC provides all its research students with expert supervision and facilities relevant to their chosen area of research. Research projects are normally supervised by two members of academic staff, one of whom acts as the candidate's Director of Studies.

APPLICATION AND SELECTION PROCESS Applications are made directly to UWIC. For more information email: admissions@uwic.ac.uk or telephone: +44 (0) 29 2041 6044.

Once your application form has been received, it will be sent to Cardiff School of Art & Design for consideration. We will endeavour to process your application as quickly as possible.

The academic staff responsible for your chosen programme will consider carefully the information provided by you on your form and any comments received from your referees.

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CRITERIA USED IN CONSIDERING YOUR APPLICATION When we read your application form we are looking for evidence that you would be able to make the most of studying here. For a PhD this will normally mean a Masters qualification, for MPhil it will mean a good undergraduate degree or equivalent.

Applicants who wish to study for a PhD but who do not have a Master's degree may register for an MPhil, with the possibility of transfer to PhD, subject to satisfactory completion of a probationary period (usually one year fulltime or two years part-time).

Work or other experience can be taken into account as what we will be looking for is sufficient evidence of your ability to sustain independent study at an advanced level.

You should be able to demonstrate a good standard of English, either through a GCSE in English Language or through demonstrable competence in written work.

If you are in any doubt about the relevance of your qualifications or experience, or for any other queries relating to studying for a research degree with us, please contact Clive Cazeaux (ccazeaux@uwic.ac.uk).

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Our staff are practising artists, designers and published writers and thinkers, all actively pursuing research in their field. We strongly believe in everyone practising what they teach.

Here are examples of projects undertaken by CSAD academic staff in 2006/07.

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• Professor Andre Stitt has been invited to perform at a number of international venues this year, and has toured the Far East and Australia, working at major venues and galleries.

• Carol Robertson, has been consolidating her considerable painting reputation, particularly through her collaboration with the award winning author Michelle Roberts.

Their joint publication Dark City Light City combined Carol’s abstracted visual impressions of London walks with Michelle’s prose text.

• Cecile Johnson-Soliz has been nominated for the prestigious Artes Mundi award and exhibition which will be held at the National Museum of Wales in 2008.

• Philippa Lawrence has an exhibition of recent work at the Glynn Vivian Gallery in Swansea and is receiving critical acclaim for her work.

• Tim Forrester has launched two new lighting products that operate both as sculptural objects as well as practical lighting systems.

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• Simon Cousins has been involved in advising the Department of Communities and Local Government on the implementation of Home Inspector Training in Wales.

• Nick Evans has designed and delivered a structured training programme for Building Control Surveyors in the South West of England.

• Wendy Keay-Bright was short-listed for the Welsh Woman of the Year Awards 2006 in the Science and Technology category.

• Steve Gill is leading an initiative using ground breaking Cradle to Cradle thinking. Visiting Hamburg for meetings with Michael Braungart to discuss potential collaboration and funding from Tescos, BP and Unilever.

• Dave Jacklin, Martin Williams, Gilbert Darlington Simon Bichard and Roger Griffiths have generated Enterprise income through the development of solar powered Bus Stop areas in conjunction with Bus Stop Wales Ltd.

• Dr Martin Biffin was invited to join the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Education Awards Committee which assesses applications for Student Scholarships and travel grants, and also the British Flame Research Committee, the British arm of the International Flame Research Foundation.

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Throughout their time at the Cardiff School of Art and Design, Students are encouraged to gain as much experience as possible that will support their future career development. Here are some examples of the achievements of current students and recent graduates in 2006/07:

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• Twenty students hired work to the Fiction Factory for use on S4C’s Caerdydd.

• Daddy’s Girl, the movie filmed at Howard Gardens, also featured students’ paintings and is to be shown in cinemas around the UK. • Peter Keegan painted the Vice-Chancellor’s portrait, along with our canteen and reception teams, and Jenny Godfrey from the slide library. The University has now purchased one of his works and Peter has donated another, both of these can be seen at Howard Gardens.

• Time Based students participated in the National Review of Live Art in Glasgow.

• Fran Uguen-Sykes, Christian Olsen, Steph Ferguson and Helen Weeks took part in a show at Cole & Co, with the whole of Printmaking taking part in a show at the Old Library. Fran, Steph and Helen are also in the Welsh Artist of the Year competition at St David’s Hall.

• Kate Freeman has had a show as a part of the Hay on Wye Festival.

• Eight students visited the Sichuan Fine Arts Institution, Chong Ying, China, for five weeks over Easter.

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• Third year Degree Show work featured at the New Designers event in London.

• Graduate, Simon Fraser now works for one of the UK’s leading architectural practices, Allies and Morrison.

• James Angus has been awarded the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologist’s prize for the highest achieving final year student.

• Graduate, Huw Mainwaring, with a team of two others from the Gaunt Francis practice, has won the recent European House of the Future competition.

• Through Kelly Higgins’ project on GE aircraft engine repair, she developed a repair procedure for a component used in their largest and most powerful commercial jet engine (as used on a Boeing 777) Her innovative solution saves the company $27,000 per engine, and also means that the engines have a rapid overhaul turnaround time.

• Jonathan Pratten designed and tested a surgical instrument for key-hole surgery. Prototypes have already been tested and it will be in production for the manufacturers Gyrus.

• Peter Lees, a music and audio final year student, developed an automatic “panning” system for use in large auditoria which automatically adjusts the stereo sound system to “follow” each actor/performer across the stage.

• The Product Design Programme prides itself on students’ ability to design for manufacture. This year Dale Harper’s intrinsically safe birthing forceps, Simon Hack’s safe and ergonomic fire brigade stretcher, and Nic Gray’s back-pack vacuum cleaner projects have all been taken forward by their sponsors, and commercially developed for manufacture. our students 83

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APPLICATION PROCESS Applications for all full-time undergraduate programmes are made through UCAS. Information on how to apply and copies of their forms are available on-line (www.ucas.ac.uk) and through schools, colleges and careers offices.

In broad terms, UCAS has two ways to apply for art and design programmes – Route A and Route B. Route B is specifically to allow students from Foundation programmes the time they need to prepare and present their portfolio. Route A is the route for people applying with alternative qualifications and experiences.

WELCOMING STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES We welcome applications from students with disabilities. Please contact UWIC’s Disability Adviser for an informal chat if you are thinking about applying to Cardiff School of Art & Design - 029 2041 6170 www.uwic.ac.uk/disability.

SELECTION Once your application form has been received at UCAS, it will be sent to Cardiff School of Art & Design for consideration.

We will endeavour to process your application as soon as possible.

This will be especially so where we do not necessarily need to call you for interview, or for overseas students who find it difficult to come to an interview.

The academic staff responsible for your chosen programme will consider carefully the information provided by you on your UCAS form and by your referees.

CRITERIA USED IN CONSIDERING YOUR APPLICATION When we read your application form we are looking for evidence that you would be able to make the most of studying here. Your range of qualifications or experience and your enthusiasm for your subject need to be clear when we read your form.

Programmes such as BA Ceramics, BA Contemporary Textile Practice and BA Fine Art are keen to take students who have already undertaken a Foundation Programme in Art & Design. It is important to recognise though that Foundation Studies are not the sole requirement for access to the art programmes. Other qualifications, for example, a good range of GCSEs and A levels or their equivalent, at a suitably high standard in appropriate subjects, will be viewed positively. It therefore helps a lot if you have qualifications in Art, Design or Media Studies.

For the design, construction and engineering programmes, at least two relevant A levels or their equivalent is required with courses having different points requirements. Please access the website and follow the links to the programmes you are interested in to find out the exact requirements (www.uwic.ac.uk/courses/).

Work and other relevant experiences can also be taken into account as equivalent to academic qualifications. What we will be looking for is sufficient evidence of your ability to sustain study at degree level.

We are also keen that you should demonstrate a good standard of English, either through a GCSE in English or through competence in written communication. For some programmes GCSE Maths or the equivalent is also necessary.

If you are in any doubt about the relevance of your qualifications or experience please contact us. International students who do not have English as their first language need to provide evidence that they are able to study in the language by submitting a minimum score in either an IELTS test of 6.0 or a TOEFL test of 230 (computer) or 570 (paper).

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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAMME OFFERS AND INTERVIEWS, INTERVIEWS AND OFFERS In some cases, we will be able to make you an offer without needing you to come to an interview. However, where it is especially important that we see evidence of your work, we will invite you to bring a portfolio to an interview. Where this isn’t possible, for example because of distance, we will ask to see digital or other images of your work and can interview you on the telephone. The interview is a chance for you to show your enthusiasm for your chosen subject and to explain to us something about our motivation. It is also a great opportunity to visit Cardiff, meet our staff and students, soak up the atmosphere here and ask questions that you did not raise on your Open Day visits.

PORTFOLIOS Where you need to present a portfolio it should contain a body of unaided art or design work. It is helpful if at least some of it relates to the area in which would like to study.

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Want to study at BA level in art and design in the UK? The idea of moving to a new country and studying there can be a challenge and so this 10 week course has been designed especially to help you build your confidence and make the most of studying in the UK. Between July and September, you will be introduced to a variety of lively approaches and activities that will enable you to be fully prepared to take on the demands of a BA programme.

Through a series of practical projects, presentations, group and individual tutorials and culture visits, you will be introduced to the unique approaches to learning and teaching that we value so much at Cardiff School of Art & Design. You will be able to develop technical and conceptual skills that will provide a firm basis for further study. Alongside this, you will have a chance to discover something of the thriving artistic and cultural life of Cardiff - the capital of Wales.

Progression to study as CSAD Successful completion of the 10 week programme provides progression onto one of the following programmes:

• Art & Design Foundation • BA (Hons) Ceramics • BA (Hons) Contemporary Textile Practice • BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Time Based Practice) • BA (Hons) Fine Art & Art History • BA (Hons) Fine Art & Creative Writing • BA (Hons) Fine Art & Philosophy • BA (Hons) Media Studies & Visual Cultures • BA/BSc (Hons) Product Design • BA (Hons) Graphic Communication • BA (Hons) Illustration • MSc Advanced Product Design • MA Ceramics • MA Fine Art LANGUAGE SUPPORT For students wishing to improve their English or already have an IELTS (International English Language Testing Service) score of 5, we provide professional English support so that you can be familiar with the specialist vocabulary necessary for study at BA level. The programme requires students to undertake the IELTS tests to reach level 6 in order to study at BA level.

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CONSIDERING A P P LY I N G ?

We welcome applications from students who already have some experience in the broad field of art and design whether it be a relevant diploma, degree or work experience.

WHAT TO DO NEXT To apply for the 10 week International Programme in Art & Design, complete the application form available at www.uwic.ac.uk and follow the links to International Students/Prospective Students/How to Apply. You also need to submit a digital portfolio to demonstrate your ability in art and design. Please e-mail your digital portfolio to international@uwic.ac.uk with your name, contact details and course title that you wish to study. On receipt of your application and portfolio, we will contact you.

FEES ÂŁ2200*. The cost of accommodation is not included.

CSAD will help find accommodation for you with host families. *subject to change, please contact us for full details CONTACT Gareth Barham +44 (0)29 2041 6902 gbarham@uwic.ac.uk uwic.ac.uk/international/

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Want to develop your skills for personal enjoyment, to develop your portfolio to help you apply for a job or course, or do you simply want to get a buzz out of meeting up with like-minded creative people each week?

Cardiff Open Art School, based at the Howard Gardens campus, runs a range of courses in the evenings, at Easter and during the summer for students of all ages and abilities, from absolute beginners to experienced artists and designers. No qualifications are needed, just enthusiasm and a desire to learn and experiment.

Our tutors are all practicing artists and whatever your motivation for attending, you will receive tuition, advice and encouragement to develop your skills and ideas.

Courses run include: • Ceramics • Digital Photography • Inspirational Drawing • Life Drawing • Painting in Oils and Acrylic (beginners/ intermediate) • Painting in Oils and Acrylic (intermediate/ advanced) • Adobe Photoshop • Printmaking • Screen Printing

CONTACT: Angela Dutton +44 (0)29 2041 6628 adutton@uwic.ac.uk

For the latest information on the courses COAS is running as well the short courses in Dreamweaver, Design for Print and Graphic Design Principles visit: www.csad.uwic.ac.uk/coas

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CLARE ADAMS BA HONOURS FINE ART: TIME BASED PRACTICE FIRST CLASS

“Born in Bristol in 1985, I grew up on the Welsh side of the River Severn in the beautiful Wye Valley, living firstly in Shirenewton, then at the age of ten I moved to the nearby town of Chepstow with my Mother and Sister.

My Father, a talented landscape painter inspired me to pursue art from a young age. After leaving school at 18 I took a gap year, to work and travel and have visited France, Spain, Italy, Holland and the Greek Islands exploring their art and culture.

At this point in time I fell in love with my best friend, we married and travelled to Thailand.

I began studying for a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 2004. Here, I became heavily interested in art and its relationship to philosophy; drawing upon personal experiences in human behaviour and family relationships to create work.

After graduating from UWIC in July 2007 with my First Class degree I hope to continue making work as an artist whilst working in the industry harnessing skills learnt in my specialist area of Time Based Practice such as video editing, camera based work or curator and gallery experience.“

LIMITED EDITION Live Performance/Installation Light/Sugar/Time/Camera...

“I transformed the installation room into a corridor of light structured by five 1000 watt lights shining through stretched cotton. I covered the floor in bleached white sugar so it was almost ankle deep. I stood at the end of the corridor, naked; my skin saturated with sugar too.”

“The audience was guided from pitch blackness to this blinding corridor and asked, one at a time to remove their shoes and walk into the corridor. They were also given a camera and told they could take a photograph if they chose. As a member of the audience entered I, eyes closed, said,” “In one minute I will open my eyes and this moment will end.”

“I had been researching the visual coding of advertising and came across the history of the Coca Cola bottle and its iconic curved bottle; its imagery was designed to remind us of the sexual voluptuous woman, yet it’s nevertheless a commodity to be bought and sold.

Building hype for a moment that is ultimately disposable.

The idea behind ‘Limited Edition’ was to create a live ‘moment’ between myself and the audience members that would represent the exchange between product and consumer, one and the ‘other’.

Sensations of vulnerability and control passed between myself and the individual as, my eyes closed they were able to capture their moment on camera, on opening my eyes after the minute I was able to look them in their eyes, their moment over.

Throughout the three hours the sugar gradually reacted with the heat from the lights and the sweat from my skin and began to melt creating a startling visual effect representing the deterioration of the ideal in the moment. The audiences’ footprints in the sugar left impressions of their movements within the installation, how close they came to my body.

This performance harnessed the cold, revealing methods of advertising to create an opposing sensory intimate encounter between skin and sugar, art and viewer hoping to transcend visual systems through metaphoric exposure.”

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We hope that you will now put in your application to Cardiff School of Art & Design and look forward to hearing from you.

Please contact us directly if you need more information. Admission Tutors and Programme Leaders will be happy to talk with you about the courses and the best choice for you. If you need a copy of the prospectus in an alternative format, please contact us and we will be happy to help.

Cardiff School of Art & Design UWIC Howard Gardens Campus Cardiff CF24 0SP Tel: +44 (0)29 2041 6154 Llandaff Campus Western Avenue Cardiff CF5 2YB Tel: +44 (0)29 2041 6696/6637 email: csad@uwic.ac.uk web: csad.uwic.ac.uk uwic.ac.uk UWIC Central Admissions Office Tel: +44 (0)29 2941 6010

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Non-repayable student cash bursaries are offered

by UWIC, these include the UWIC Means Tested Bursary, and the UWIC Scholarship Award.

Please visit: www.uwic.ac.uk/ bursaries or contact UWIC’s Bursaries Officer for further details.

Contact: James Brennan Bursaries Officer Tel: 029 2041 6143 email: jjbrennan@uwic.ac.uk

UNIVERSITY OF WALES INSTITUTE , CARDIFF ATHROFA PRIFYSGOL CYMRU, CAERDYDD

‘At the heart of Creativity in Cardiff for over 140 years…’

Cover image: ‘Limited Edition’

By Clare Adams BA Honours Fine Art: Time Based Practice First Class Read more about Clare’s work on pages 90 - 91.

The information in this prospectus is also available on the CSAD website:

csad.uwic.ac.uk where content can be viewed in your preferred format.

The information given in this prospectus is intended as a general guide to UWIC, its courses and facilities, and does not form part of a contract. UWIC reserves the right to modify or withdraw without notice any of the courses or facilities described in this prospectus.

All the information contained in this publication was correct at the time of writing.

Compiled by: CSAD Edited by: CSAD Designed by: Sarah Garwood, Creative Services, UWIC Cover photography by: Phil Boorman Photography by: Phil Boorman and Mal Bennett Printed by HSW Print A warm thank you to all the academic and support staff and students who helped with the production of this prospectus.

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ART & DESIGN ‘At the heart of Creativity in Cardiff for over 140 years…’

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