Fine Art BA (Hons)
UCA University for the Creative Arts
Key Information
Campus location
Canterbury, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 - 5 years
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
GBP 16,950 / per year
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Sep 2024
Scholarships
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Introduction
Our BA (Hons) Fine Art degree course at UCA Canterbury will support you to build on your creative passions, gain new skills, experiment, and fine-tune your work, interests and thinking.
We want you to work with curiosity, develop ideas and themes, and consolidate your practice. With the support of our staff, you’ll experiment with a range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, film, sound, performance, animation and printmaking.
You’ll also develop a deep theoretical and critical understanding of Fine Art, and learn business and self-promotion skills. There will be plenty of opportunities to meet other students, make friends and to build a professional network that will give you a strong foundation on which to build your career.
This course will give you a wealth of transferable skills, distinguished by your creativity, ability to cope with change and hardworking, flexible attitude to work.
Industry links
As a long-established course, we have a developed Kent wide network which gives our students access to some of the most respected names in the creative industries, including:
- Turner Contemporary Margate
- Folkestone Triennial
- Dover Arts Development
- Stour Valley Creative Partnership
- Crate
- Whitstable Biennale
- Canterbury Cathedral.
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Curriculum
You have the option to complete a Professional Practice Year as part of this course. This will give you the opportunity to develop your professional, academic and personal potential, equipping you to be confident and engaged in creative workplaces. Employers widely recognise these qualities, and a significant proportion of placement students are offered graduate-level jobs or go onto postgraduate study.
BA (Hons)
Our standard three year undergraduate degree for those who meet the entry requirements for higher education.
UCAS Code for 3 year/standard: W100
BA (Hons) with Integrated Foundation Year
A four year degree programme, including a foundation year to help develop your creativity before you embark on year one of a degree.
UCAS Code for course with Integrated Foundation Year: W10F
BA (Hons) with Integrated International Foundation Year
A four year course, specifically designed to provide international students with the English language and creative skills before they embark on year one of a degree.
UCAS Code for course with Integrated International Foundation Year: W10H
BA (Hons) with Professional Practice Year
A four year programme, which sees you spend an entire year gaining valuable industry experience prior to your final year of study.
UCAS Code for course with Professional Practice: W103
BA (Hons) with Integrated Foundation Year and Professional Practice Year
A five year course, including a foundation year to help develop your creativity before you embark on year one of a degree, and a year on a professional placement gaining valuable industry experience prior to your final year of study.
UCAS Code for course with Integrated Foundation Year and Professional Practice Year: W10G
BA (Hons) with Integrated International Foundation Year and Professional Practice Year
A five year course, including an international foundation year concentrating on English language and core creative skills before you embark on year one of a degree, and a year on a professional placement gaining valuable industry experience prior to your final year of study.
UCAS Code for course with Integrated International Foundation Year and Professional Practice Year: W10J
Career Opportunities
While many of our alumni have developed careers as established artists, others have chosen to apply their talents to other fields, becoming:
- Artist practitioners
- Filmmakers
- Project managers
- Animators
- Curators
- Writers photographers
- Arts administrators
- Publishers
- Educators
- Technical instructors
- Designers
- Producers
- Picture/archive researchers.