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Subject Intensive Programs
Semester students at UAL are fully integrated into the College’s degree courses and study alongside degree seeking students. Since the study of art and design is different in Europe, students may find they are working more independently than at their home schools. In addition, students are encouraged to take a hands-on, project oriented approach to learning. UAL professors offer guidance and support to visiting students in order to help them fit seamlessly into their program of choice. Students will earn 15 US credits per term.

Drawing | CCA

The program considers Drawing as an extension of thinking and encourages students to test the boundaries of Drawing practice through an understanding of current ideas, practices and technologies as well as the traditions and histories of the discipline. Students will be asked to explore Drawing as an end in itself as well as a means for exploring other modes of art practice such as sculpture, installation, performance and film. As one of the five Fine Art subjects within the Art Cluster at Camberwell the course offers a distinct approach to Drawing Fine Art practice. CCA’s visiting teachers work in such diverse arenas as fine art, surgical medicine, materials science, architecture, sound art, animation, criticism and curation.

Students are placed into either year 1 or year 2 of the program (based on portfolio). Below you will find the set curriculum for each term.

Year 1|Fall: 15 Credits
FA DR CA 300 – Induction
FA DR CA 310 – Defining the Subject: What is Drawing?
Year 1|Spring: 15 Credits
FA DR CA 300 – Induction
FA DR CA 310 – Defining the Subject: What is Drawing?
FA DR CA 320 – Critical Context and Reflective Practice
FA DR CA 330 – Exploring Subject Possibilities: Drawing Systems

Year 2|Fall: 15 Credits
FA DR CA 350 – Elective
FA DR CA 355 – Developing a Methodology: Research and Context
Year 2|Spring: 15 Credits
FA DR CA 350 – Elective
FA DR CA 355 – Developing a Methodology: Research and Context
FA DR CA 360 – Reflection, Planning and Presentation
FA DR CA 365 – Contexts for your work: External Contexts and Collaboration

For course descriptions, click on “Class Schedules” to the left. Courses are subject to change.

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Fine Art | CSM

This program offers an integrated curriculum, which prioritizes the development of continuous practice, embedding all elements, including critical studies and personal and professional development into units of study. This makes best use of resources and facilitates an holistic model of practice and assessment. Four pathways are offered, in 2D, 3D, 4D and XD (cross disciplinary study), which represent areas of practice formed from shared ideas and processes.

2D: Teaching in this pathway is concerned with representation, narrative, the building of surface and/or illusion, collage,
streams of process, production, analogue and digital reprographics, the development of drawing and understanding of the discourses surrounding painting.

3D: Teaching in this pathway is concerned with presence and evocation, construction in space with materials and (im)materials (sound and light), fullness, mass and volume, area as surface, glyptic and plastic practices. It deals with the practical and philosophical problems posed by materiality. It encourages a committed and expansive use of the production spaces provided in studio and workshops and a habit of observation among artists, which leads to opportunities for collaboration and reflection. Theoretical and philosophical discussions arising include those on ontology and the “coming into being” of presence, phenomenology of the self revealed, evocation and mnemonic construction, spatial control and the semiotics of power.

4D: Teaching in this pathway provides a focal point for artwork that engages the use of time, duration, movement and action as material properties for the making of art. Ranging across moving and still image, drawing, installation, performance and sound art, the Pathway also encourages expanded media and intermedia practices that include new technologies of distribution.

XD: Teaching in this pathway forges cross-disciplinary platforms and promotes practice as an ongoing series of movements across a range of possible forms. Such movements necessitate continuous speculation, research and experimentation, including engaging with ethical and practical implications of placing art in space. You are encouraged to recognize the provisional nature of practice and work critically with the contingent relations that emerge from it (which might include the material, institutional, social, and psychological). Your practice frames problems and experiments in translating, making and thinking. As well as facilitating individual practice, the pathway fosters the development of hybrid approaches and also demands a recognition of opportunities for collaborative practice. Critical and reflective discussions may include theories of interpretation and judgement, as well as concepts of action, performative practice, embodiment and artistic subjectivity. In addition to these, spatial theories, critiques of the institution, and histories and theories of the museum, curation, and the archive will be deployed.

Year 1|Fall: 15 Credits
FA BS CM 300: Introduction to Higher Education Study
FA BS CM 310: Process & Method
Year 1|Spring: 15 Credits
FA BS CM 320: Situating Practice
FA BS CM 310: Process & Method

Year 2|Fall: 15 Credits
FA BS CM 350: Logistics Of Practice
FA BS CM 360: Critical Evaluations
Year 2|Spring: 15 Credits
FA BS CM 370: Expanding Practice
FA BS CM 360: Critical Evaluations

For course descriptions, click on “Class Schedules” to the left. Courses are subject to change.

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Fine Art | CCAD

Chelsea’s Fine Art program is one of the most highly regarded and best known courses in the UK; many of graduates have become successful practitioners and include several Turner Prize winners. The courses encourages open and exploratory thinking within practical work, equipping students with the confidence, experience and skills needed to play an effective role on the international stage as a professional artist. The program brings together a wide range of specialist areas including painting, sculpture, video, film, performance, sound, animation, digital media, photography, drawing and installation. Upon acceptance, students will be appropriately placed in either Year 1 or Year 2 of the Fine Art program, depending on the student’s portfolio.

Students are placed into either year 1 or year 2 of the program (based on portfolio). Below you will find the set curriculum for each term.

Year 1|Fall: 15 Credits
FA FA CC 300 – Fine Art Induction
FA FA CC 310 – Studio Practice 1A
FA FA CC 320 – Studio Practice 1B
FA FA CC 330 – Art Theory 1C
Year 1|Spring: 15 Credits
FA FA CC 310 – Studio Practice 1A
FA FA CC 320 – Studio Practice 1B
FA FA CC 330 – Art Theory 1C

Year 2|Fall: 15 Credits
FA FA CC 350 – Studio Practice 2A
FA FA CC 360 – Studio Practice 2B
FA FA CC 365 – Elective Unit
FA FA CC 370 – Art Theory 2C
Year 2|Spring: 15 Credits
FA FA CC 350 – Studio Practice 2A
FA FA CC 360 – Studio Practice 2B
FA FA CC 365 – Elective Unit
FA FA CC 370 – Art Theory 2C

For course descriptions, click on “Class Schedules” to the left. Courses are subject to change.

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Fine Art: Painting | WCA

This program supports a wide range of approaches to the diverse contemporary practice of painting. Students develop their work in relation to both traditional and contemporary dialogues and are able to form their ideas through a shared fine art lecture program and more subject specific seminar discussion. The team of lecturers are all practicing artists and promote the importance of painting as a skill-based practice in touch with its own history, enabling students to develop the essential conceptual and practical skills needed to evolve an independent practice.

Students are placed into either year 1 or year 2 of the program (based on portfolio). Below you will find the set curriculum for each term.

Year 1|Fall: 15 Credits
FA PA WA 300 – Induction & Introduction to Fine Art
FA PA WA 310 – Introduction to Critical Practice for Fine Art
FA PA WA 320 – Introduction to Subject Specific Practice
Year 1|Spring: 15 Credits
FA PA WA 330 – Establishing Subject Specific Practice & PPD
FA PA WA 340 – Introduction to Critical Practice for Fine Art

Year 2|Fall: 15 Credits
FA PA WA 350 – Developing Subject Specific Practice & PPD 1
FA PA WA 360 – Elective
FA PA WA 370 – Describe, Analyze & Situate:Critical Practice for Fine Art
Year 2|Spring: 15 Credits
FA PA WA 380 – Developing Subject Specific Practice & PPD 2 or Foreign Exchange & PPD
FA PA WA 370 – Describe, Analyze & Situate:Critical Practice for Fine Art

For course descriptions, click on “Class Schedules” to the left. Courses are subject to change.

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Fine Art: Print and Digital Media | WCA

The Print and Digital Media program supports exploration and inquiry through contemporary art practices that make use of technologies such as printed books and editions, animation, works in digital media including video, sound, internet and photography. The program encourages vigorous open experimentation across media and is structured around group discussion and informed critical debate. There is a particular interest in practices that move between the still and moving image and in different strategies for distributing artwork. Students explore gallery based practices and beyond – incorporating installation, artists’ publications, live art, screenings, broadcasts and websites.

Students are placed into either year 1 or year 2 of the program (based on portfolio). Below you will find the set curriculum for each term.

Courses: TBA

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Fine Art: Sculpture | WCA

The Sculpture program fosters a pro-active and inquiring approach to sculpture practice and its histories and contemporary contexts. The program supports a wide range of activities and approaches that include: performance, contextual or site based works, large scale installations, photography, drawing, sound and video as well as more ‘traditional’ sculpture processes. From the outset there is an emphasis on context, presentation and professional practice and how this impacts upon both the conceptual and practical aspects of sculpture practice.

Students are placed into either year 1 or year 2 of the program (based on portfolio). Below you will find the set curriculum for each term.

Courses: TBA

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