As well as our progressing Foundation Degree Applied Arts students, we welcome applicants who wish to top up their Foundation Degree or equivalent qualification from other institutions. Even if it is a while since you completed your HND/FD please come and see us. New students enrich all our experiences and give a different perspective to our existing student cohort.
We offer a one-year full time course and a two-year part time route.
You will ideally have a specialism in one or more of our subject areas (Ceramics, Glass, Large Scale Metals or Small scale metals/jewellery). New students often experience the choice of materials and processes in our splendidly equipped workshops exciting, but remember it is quite a short year so if you want to learn new material skills, you will have to put in extra hours to develop them. This is an intensive, challenging and exciting year. Be prepared for the unexpected!
This Programme is designed for students to develop into autonomous, skilled and knowledgeable practitioners. We have modules and assignment briefs that allow you to pursue your own direction, and design your own plan with the guidance of our academic team.
We look at the creative process in more depth and you will have the opportunity to develop a greater understanding of the world you will be entering.
We encourage cross-disciplinary dialogue with other subjects throughout the college so that students can enrich and broaden their experience.
Our Critical, Contextual and Historical studies team guide you through your dissertation, in the contextual module. This aspect of the course becomes an essential part of your experience and is often very influential on the development of your practical work and vice versa.
A talented team of skilled academic and technical staff (all practitioners in their own right) will give you a comprehensive & rounded education, supporting your material explorations and practical work.
Students will also gain a greater understanding of the professional skills you need to develop for when you leave College from our skilled academic team. There are opportunities towards the end of the year to exhibit at prestigious events such as the Bovey Tracey Craft Fair and New Designers, as well as at our Degree Show.
During the year, students are encouraged to be aware and part of external organisations to participate in and arrange exhibitions beyond the confines of the college. By the time they complete the BA, proactive students can already have begun to work professionally. Every student develops at a different rate and the programme is very supportive of all students in this respect, so that by the end of the Programme students should be ready for the outside world.
We encourage students to be mindful of current debates and issues when developing their work. Sustainable and ethical practice is very important to us at Plymouth College of Art and was the focus for our prestigious Making Futures Conference in September 2009.
http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk
