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BA Fine Art with Contemporary Cultural Theory

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

You’ll have the skills to work as a professional artist, designer or craftsperson, but the theoretical elements of the course will also allow you to develop critical, analytical, communication, presentation and research skills to work in multimedia and the creative industries, publishing, journalism, PR, film and television.

Many graduates from our School combine careers as artists with work in education, museums or galleries, or even 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

  • Introduction to Cultural Analysis 1

  • Introduction to Cultural Analysis II

  • Introduction to Studio Work

  • Studio Work 2

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Cultural History

  • Approaches to Living Histories and Heritage

2 Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Studio Work

  • Keywords

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • The New York School

  • The Wanderers. Critical Realism in Nineteenth Century Russia

  • Seeing in Asia

  • Showing Asia

  • Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice

  • The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings

  • The Avant Gardes

  • 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

  • Dissertation

  • Studio Work

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust

  • Cultural Diversity in Museum and Material Culture - Case Study

  • Antique Dealers: The Market for 'Decorative Art' from Curiosities to Retro

  • Africa and the Atlantic World: History, Historiography and the Visual Arts

  • Movies, Migrants and Diasporas

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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