Module: FAR5100-20 Exploring Fine Art Territories

Level: 5

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Keith Harrison

Module Tutor Contact Details: k.harrison@bathspa.ac.uk

1. Brief description and aims of module:

This module is designed to facilitate a focused engagement with a territory or theme relevant to your own emergent practice. Working in groups alongside an academic tutor you will work together to identify a mutual area of interest to explore. Through workshops, study trips, and group discussion these territories will be investigated in depth. Emphasising collaboration and participation each group will work together to co-construct a form to present and disseminate their research to the course community.

2.Outline syllabus:

This module requires you to work collaboratively to identify, explore and present research around a specific theme. Working in groups, alongside a member of the academic team who shares an interest in the identified theme, you will use a range of texts, artworks and/or current exhibitions as a basis for discussion, critiques and workshops. The form and the content of these sessions will be determined by, and be the responsibility of the whole group. There will be an opportunity to invite a visitor to contribute to a session and the group will be supported to draw on the expertise within the school and/or wider university. At the end of the module the group will be required to present their research to the wider course community in a form of their choice. Each member of the group will take on a role in this presentation. Alongside this collaborative presentation you will produce a visual document reflecting on your engagement in the group and the relevance of the research to your own developing practice. One to one and group tutorials will support the ongoing development of this reflective document.

3.Teaching and learning activities:

This module will be delivered through group discussions and workshops centred round the identified theme or territory. These sessions will be facilitated by an academic tutor but the overall content and form of these sessions will be determined by the group. Group visits to relevant events/exhibitions will be key to the enquiry.

Individual tutorials will support your progress, offer you a space to evaluate your engagement in the research group and analyse the relevance and impact of the research on your developing studio practice.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Visual Document

• % Weighting: 100%