[Learning Outcomes 1-8]

To include:
A body of studio work
A portfolio of supporting work
An artist's statement
A careers dossier that includes full documentation of your careers research along with a CV and personal Promotional material

Key Information Set:
100% Coursework

Students must pass all elements of the assessment criteria

This module will enable you to review or revise your personal project and to test its viability and potential to sustain a substantive body of work. Research will be the focus of your activity in this module and this will take the form of visual, textual and contextual exploration into your chosen theme. As a part of this review of your practice you will be expected to examine and put into practice the developing relationships between materials, ideas, processes and production.

Throughout this module there will be opportunities for you to test the development of your work through regular studio presentations and associated tutorials and seminars, and you will be encouraged to identify and articulate the relationship of your own practice to relevant contexts. As a result of the module you will develop a range of competencies that will enable you to produce an experimental body of work that might contain a wide range of differing visual outcomes alongside a portfolio.

This module also seeks to prepare you for entry into the creative professions or postgraduate study, and aims to develop your awareness of the range of career and postgraduate opportunities available. You will be able to make realistic, well informed decisions in relation to your future career intentions, and will develop your ability to cope with the transition from undergraduate study to the next stage in your career. Topics will include the jobs market and employment opportunities, interview techniques, responding to job advertisements, CV preparation, personal promotion, professional presentation of work and the development of contacts. The key skills of visual, written and oral presentation are promoted through this module.

Studio Practice
Lectures
Seminars
Tutorials
Group critiques
Self directed seminars
External Visits
Practical workshops
Academic workshops
Online resources
Readings
Independent study in support of your project work
Short exercises and assignments that help you to apply and evaluate your learning

Key Information Set:
10% scheduled learning and teaching activities - taught sessions
90% guided independent study - studio time

Students are expected to take advantage of the extensive library facilities available within the University, keeping abreast of current developments through appropriate periodicals and being aware of the work of major practitioners within the subject. The reading list below is indicative:

Allison, B. 1996, Research Skills for Sudents. Kogan Page, London.
Baxter, L. 1996, How to Research. Open University.
Debord, Guy. Auth. 1983. Society of the Spectacle. Black & Red, Detroit USA.
Deleuze, Gilles. Auth. 1989. Cinema 2: The Time-Image. Minneapolis University Press, USA.
Deleuze, Gilles, Auth. 1990. Negotiations. Columbia University Press, NY, Chichester, West Sussex. (Trans 1995)
Foster, Hal. Ed.1983. The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Bay Press, Washington, USA.
Grant, Daniel. 2004. Making Money in the Arts and Beyond, Allworth Press, NY, USA

Gray, Carole; Malins, Julian. Auths. 2004. Visualizing Research: A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design. Ashgate Publishing. UK, USA
Hansen, Mark B.N. Auth. 2004. New Philosophy for New Media. MIT, Camb, Mass; London, England.
Harris, Jonathan. Ed. 2003. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Painting - Hybridity, Hegemony, Historicism. Liverpool University Press and Tate Liverpool.
Jones, Emilia. Ed. 2003. The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. Routledge, NY, London & Canada.
Lang, C. 1998. Taking the Leap: Building a Career As a Visual Artist Paperback. Chronicle Books, CA, USA.
O'Docherty, Brian. 1999. Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space. Los Angeles, California and London: University of California Press, Berkeley.

Relevant texts such as monographs on appropriate artists to your own practice will be advised through tutorials and seminars. Handout sheets related to individual workshops and processes will be distributed to you throughout the semester.

Major International Periodicals: Art Monthly, Frieze, Parkett, Modern Painters, Art Review
Useful web Links for arts professionals:

http://www.newaudiences.org.uk
http://www.surrart.ac.uk/careers/PDFs/Job_Fine_art.pdf
www.a-n.co.uk
http://www.a-n.co.uk/jobs_and_opps/
http://uk.linkedin.com/

Technical skills modulettes, as appropriate
Studio Space
Exhibition Spaces
Specialist workshop facilities, as appropriate

The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

1. Undertake a substantive body of research with evidence of its potential application for your project (enquiry).
2. Sustain a rigorous approach to independent learning (learning).
3. Produce a portfolio of coursework that locates your practice in an appropriate way (knowledge & understanding).
4. Apply skills of visual analysis to your own work and that of your contemporaries (visual analysis).
5. Use visual and written communication skills in relation to practice (communication).
6. Make informed decisions in relation to future career intentions (knowledge and understanding).
7. Carry out extensive resource gathering in the search for relevant information and share it with others (enquiry/learning).
8. Promote yourself professionally and articulately (communication).