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BA Fine Art

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

This course offers you a unique combination of artistic, intellectual and professional skills. As a result, you’ll be well equipped for a variety of careers. Our graduates become proactive and energetic artists, curators, critics, journalists and innovative initiators working across wide creative fields.

Many of our graduates combine careers as artists with work in education, museums or galleries, or go on to establish new cultural enterprises themselves –The Tetley, Leeds’ contemporary art space, is just one example. Others use their knowledge and skills to launch careers in fields such as journalism, broadcasting, marketing, technology, business or design.

Some of our graduates have gone onto postgraduate study and some have completed PhDs and are teaching in higher education institutions around the world.

General Eligibility

A-level: AAB - ABB

Other course specific tests:

Where an applicant is undertaking an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), the school may make an alternative offer that is one A level grade below that of our standard offer – on the condition that the applicant achieves a grade A in their EPQ (e.g., AAB at A level / alternative offer ABB plus grade A in EPQ).

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Elements of Visual Culture I

  • Elements of Visual Culture II

  • Professional Practice (Introductory)

  • Introduction to Studio Work

  • Studio Work 2

2 Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Studio Work

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • The New York School

  • The Wanderers. Critical Realism in Nineteenth Century Russia

  • Cinema and Culture

  • Image, Music, Text: Reading Roland Barthes

  • Seeing in Asia

  • Showing Asia

  • Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice

  • The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings

  • African Art I: Context Representation Signification

  • The Museum

  • Danish Golden Age Painting

  • Borromini and the Roman Baroque: Skill, Knowledge, and Material's Potential

  • Developing Your Professional Identity: Preparing for a Career in Within the Arts, Heritage and Creative Industries

  • Students Into Schools (Arts Humanities and Culture)

3 Year 3

Compulsory modules

  • Professional Practice Level 3

  • Dissertation

  • Studio Work

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Academic or IELTS for UKVI (United Kingdom Visas and Immigration) (Academic) or IELTS Online at 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each component skill. Please note that we cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study.

TOEFL iBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test) or TOEFL iBT Home Edition at 80 overall with no less than 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking, and 19 in writing. Please note that we do not accept TOEFL My Best scores and we expect candidates to have met the relevant requirements from a single TOEFL test.

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