FA1SP-Part 1 Skills and Processes
Module Provider: Fine Art
Number of credits: 20 [10ECTS credits]
Level:
4
Terms in which taught: Autumn and Spring
Module Convenor:
C
Ellison
Pre-requisites: Portfolio and Interview
Co-requisites: FA1MP
Modules excluded:
Module version for: 2009/0
Email: c.ellison@reading.ac.uk
Aims:
This module aims to introduce students to skills and processes at the foundation of contemporary art practices. Students will become familiar with the department workshops, tools, machinery and health and safety procedure.
Assessable learning outcomes:
By the end of the module students will be able to:
Additional outcomes:
This module engages students in the development of research and presentation techniques. Students will also extend their skills in communication and problem solving as well as developing a familiarity with appropriate terminology.
Outline content:
Students will make a series of works that investigate core skills and processes of contemporary art practice. They will identify and use vocabulary specific to these processes and will begin to articulate the relationship between the method of facture and content. Students will further extend their knowledge in how practitioners use these processes.
Brief description of teaching and learning methods:
This module will be workshop and studio based. Students will be inducted into the various workshops, and facilities of the Department. There will be instruction, as appropriate, into the use of a number of processes relevant to the contemporary artist. These will include text, drawing, and IT based based processes. Group presentations will involve students in the evaluation of work undertaken. They will identify and assemble information related to the processes in which they have become involved.
Contact hours:
| Autumn | Spring | Summer | |
| Lectures | |||
| Tutorials/seminars | 10 | 10 | |
| Practicals | 10 | 10 | |
| Other contact (eg study visits) | |||
| Total hours | 20 | 20 | |
| Number of essays or assignments | 1 | ||
| Other (eg major seminar paper) |
Assessment:
Coursework
1. A series of works using processes engaged with during the module.
2. A record of independently collated information and visual references to the processes explored during the module.
Studio work that represents full participation in the course will be assessed in the examination.
Penalties for late submission: Ten marks (out of 100 on the normal University conventional scale i.e. 10%) will be deducted from work submitted up to one calendar week after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to that deadline). Once this period has elapsed a mark of zero will be recorded.
Examination
Students will present examples of works made using each of the processes in which they have been inducted. They will present notebooks and supporting material related to the module.
Requirements for a pass: 40%.
Reassessment arrangements
Individually prescribed work to be presented and reassessed in September. A re-examinee will be given a mark for the re-assessed module which reflects the candidate's performance in the re-assessment. The mark used for purposes of progression shall be the higher of (a) the mark achieved in the original examination or (b) the actual mark on re-examination.
Last updated: 7 December 2009