BA (Hons) Fine Art Mixed Media with Foundation Bachelor's degree at Westminster

Critical thinking is fundamental to our ability to progress in an increasingly complex and changing world. It is an essential skill across a range of academic and practice-based disciplines. This module helps you understand the importance and function of critical thinking both at university and beyond. By working in partnership with academic staff and peers, you will explore how critical thinking aligns with disciplinary practices, shapes scholarly knowledge, and addresses inequalities. Through

This module provides you with an opportunity to develop a broad understanding of the key working methods, concepts and principles of the Art and Design disciplines within the Foundation course. You will be challenged to complete a sequence of short projects, working across a range of techniques within the subject disciplines. Self-evaluation and documenting your learning are both important elements of this process, and you will be learning by doing.

This Semester 2 module deepens and consolidates the fundamental skills, approaches and processes of Art and Design research and practice developed in Semester 1 through a practical Extended Project. It helps you to develop your creative practice, based on iterative practical, technical and contextual research, and undertaken through a negotiated project. With an overarching theme set across disciplinary pathways, you will work within a chosen discipline, with group and individual tutorial suppor

This Semester 1 module introduces fundamentals of Art and Design practice and research. It helps you to develop your individual creative practice based on an understanding of visual and contextual research processes through structured studio, research and technical activities.

This module introduces you to the key academic, professional, and personal skills essential for success at university. It encourages good practices in writing, presentation, and time management, while also fostering reflection to help you build confidence as you transition to higher education. Open to all students enrolled in courses delivered through Westminster Foundation Pathways, the module provides a creative and supportive environment where you can reflect on and develop their academic and

Following the Art and Design modules of Semester 1, this module provides you with the opportunity to engage with some of the key themes and practices of Art and Design disciplines. You will be challenged to complete several projects of approximately one month's duration, selecting techniques and working methods from the available disciplines. Self-evaluation and documenting your learning continue to be important elements of this process, and you will be learning by doing.

Drawing on the experience gained in Semester 1, this module helps you to develop your continued individual practical pursuit in fine art practice. It encourages an independent approach to developing fine art practice with the aim of producing a substantial body of work for exhibition. Delivery consists of fine art and technical workshops. Initial tutorials, reflecting on work so far, with later tutorial input and the course of gallery visits, seminars and talks to aid the practical and theoretic

This module provides an induction and understanding of creative and collaborative research practice, assessment processes and group working required in creative practice subjects. The module will introduce you to the University's commitment to the United Nations' Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs). You'll be challenged to experiment individually, undertaking contextual and practical research, which will contribute to a significant group project where students will be allocated creative role

An introduction to the practical and critical challenges of producing contemporary fine art. Using proposed starting points as triggers to self directed enquiry, the aim is to provoke a process of practical and critical enquiry across a range of media. You will consider context and content via presentations and through a journal. A course of technical workshops and on-going tutorial support, screenings and seminars provide additional impetus alongside an on going diet of recommended exhibitions

The module will examine, via a series of lectures with the potential for discussion, the contemporary art context you are historically located within. In particular focussing on the very diverse (pluralist) contemporary scene that puts an emphasis on 'practice' over materials. The course involves a broad overview of key themes from 20th century art such as Pop Art, Conceptual Art, Feminist Art and Participatory Art. Further to which the prefix of 'Post' – as in Post-Modern, PostColonial or Post-

The aim of this module is to raise and discuss issues that drive contemporary art practice. It will critically examine the way that ideas take form and how histories of contemporary art are written and received. These issues are explored with reference to the work of a range of contemporary artists, practices and critical texts. This module also acts as an important transitional point between previous contextual studies and studio-based modules and the Level 6 dissertation. Students are encourag

This module is studio based. The aim of the module is to encourage you to experiment and take risks with materials, processes and ideas which you may have encountered in level 4. Within the module your developing body of work is supported by a growing awareness of the need to contextualise and critically evaluate the work you produce, including in relation to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). You will be required to attend specific seminars, tutorials and workshops. You will obtain new skill

This module introduces you to the professional creative industries and provides you with experience of related workplace environments, relevant to the host course, through a range of tailored professional projects, including a work placement (alternatives may include client-set briefs and curated public events). Taught sessions introduce different career possibilities and provide an overview of professional skills, as well as introducing you to relevant support within the University and external

This module introduces key debates within Fine Art from the 20th century to the present. It focuses on the theoretical concepts that have influenced visual art practices and the contexts from which they have arisen. It considers the emergence of new art forms, such as performance and video, and current questions concerning more dispersed, relational and research-based practices. A series of lectures, some by visiting speakers, will provide you with an understanding of the relationships these deb

This module is practice based and supports you to consolidate personal concerns relevant to the development of your practice, within the arena of contemporary Fine Art. The module enables you to develop a body of work with increasing conceptual depth, and to build on your ability to contextualise and critical evaluate your work. Within the module you are required to attend seminars, tutorials and artists talks. The module facilitates and guides independent research. The curated end of year show

This is an intensive practice-based module that enables you to develop a deeper engagement with and understanding of the work that you produce. The aim is to create a body of work that demonstrates a high level of engagement with materials, mediums and media and the conceptual, critical and contextual concerns that inform contemporary fine art practices. This module should be a summative experience for you that culminates in the realisation of a body of work for the Degree Show at the end of the