Cert He Art & Design Foundation Swansea College of Art UWTSD

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Certificate of Higher Education:

Art & Design Foundation

The Cert HE: Art & Design Foundation at UWTSD’s Swansea College of Art is an introduction to study within Art and Design and provides a foundation for students entering art college and experiencing studio based teaching and learning for the first time.

The course offers direct progression onto the degree or integrated master’s courses at Swansea College of Art for all students who pass the course. It also supports further applications to courses elsewhere or progression into employment.

Duration: 1 year full time

Students will be taught at the University’s city centre Art & Design Campus giving students access to a vast array of traditional and state of the art workshops and learning facilities in the Dynevor and ALEX buildings.

Contact: artanddesign@uwtsd.ac.uk 01792 481285 Course tutors include: Katherine Clewett (Course Leader)

The course allows students to access all the usual student funding open to degree students plus for those starting in 2017 there is a UWTSD bursary of £1,500.

Applications should be made via UCAS Cert HE Art & Design Foundation UCAS code: F4W8 Institution Code T80 See our website for more information www.uwtsd.ac.uk/art-design

Bella Kerr Anna Lewis Anthony Arrowsmith Shellie Holden Tim Stokes Terri Saunders

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“A philosophical adventure…” Osi Rhys Osmond

Cert HE: Art & Design Foundation On the Cert HE: Art & Design Foundation students are encouraged to experiment and will learn a wide range of traditional and digital processes. They will be introduced to specialist areas of study including: • Fine art • Graphic Design • Illustration • Advertising and Brand Design • Fashion • Textiles • 3D Design • Architecture • Digital and Lens-based Media • Photography • Animation • Jewellery • Applied Art • Furniture design • Glass • Games Design • History of Art • Interior Architecture/Design • Product Design

Programme Design The busy studios provide a friendly, enthusiastic atmosphere where you can develop your work and gain confidence. The Cert HE: Art & Design Foundation course will offer you the time and space to discover where your strengths lie, to challenge and extend your skills and abilities, and to successfully identify your future direction and career. The staff team will give you support, guidance and expert tuition throughout the year, and will help your decision making at every stage.

Art & Design Foundation is an introduction to study within art and design and provides a foundation for students entering art school and experiencing studio based teaching and learning for the first time. The course is taught entirely at Level 4 and supports progression to study at honours degree level through a coherent and structured process of development and decision making; moving from basic skills learning and broad experimentation to consolidation and independent working. The Art & Design Foundation offers direct progression onto courses within Swansea College of Art, for all students who pass the course. It also supports further applications via UCAS onto courses elsewhere, or progression into employment.

How To Apply Applications for full time art and design courses are made through UCAS. Full details can be found at www.UCAS.ac.uk The UCAS code is F4W8 Cert HE Art & Design Foundation. First intake September 2016.

Programme Structure The ideal student may be of any age or background, but is typically an A level, BTEC Extended Diploma, or other Level 3 qualification student, currently studying locally or elsewhere, in a school or FE college. Qualifications are important, however our offers are not solely based on academic results. We are interested in creative people who demonstrate a strong commitment to art and design and we welcome applications from individuals from a wide range of backgrounds. To assess student suitability for the course we arrange interviews for all applicants, at which their skills, achievements and life experience will be considered as well as qualifications and a portfolio of work.

Visit Us The faculty hold official open days, details of which can be found on our website, but we welcome students at any time of the year. To arrange a visit contact: see details above.

The course is made up of 6 modules. During Semester 1 students complete 3 modules: Introduction to Art and Design provides a broad introduction the studio environment delivered through a carousel of specialist area projects. Experimentation to Specialisation encourages experimentation, and guides students towards specialist study choices. Students produce a written assignment. Developing Specialist Practice and Preparing for Progression permits students to develop their practice and assists them in the preparation of a portfolio of visual and practical work to support progression onto further study.

During Semester 2 students complete 3 further Modules: Developing Personal Practice provides a further period for the development of personal practice and the portfolio. Students work in an increasingly independent manner and apply the knowledge and experience gained during Semester 1. Major Project: Development and Theoretical Approaches requires that students extend their visual and contextual research to produce a written outcome and development towards a major project. Major Project: Realisation and Presentation requires students to produce a substantial body of work and an appropriate exhibition of outcomes. The modules are delivered through contextual introductions to projects, a range of workshops and classes, lectures and study visits. Students are guided and assessed through group and individual tutorials and critiques. Contextual and historical studies are embedded into all the modules.

Student Support

Student Life in Swansea

Study skills support is available to all students who need assistance with their studies, providing high quality information, advice, practical and emotional support to enable all students to reach their full potential.

Swansea is an ideal location in which to live and study. You will be based in a modern city by the sea, big enough to allow your own space but small enough to feel you belong.

Accommodation

Excellent road and rail links ensure that you are never too far away from family and friends. London is under 3 hours by train.

When it comes to accommodation Swansea is one of the cheapest places in the country for students to live. UWTSD Swansea has 5 halls of residence based on two separate campuses. There is also a great range of private student accommodation in the city centre, including residential blocks and houses.

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Photograph: Anthony Arrowsmith & Hazel Wakefield Art & Design Foundation staff on the stairs at Swansea College of Art, 2015 from Lux Feininger’s Weavers on the Stairs of the Bauhaus building, 1927


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