Course units
Unit 1: Establishing a community
This unit is an introduction to your course, the College and the University.
You’ll develop your own practice and ideas while continually making work in a professional context for a public audience. You’ll work collaboratively on exhibitions and events with other students.
Off-site activities will include field trips and introductions to London’s emerging art scene. As part of the unit, you’ll be asked to produce a Contextual Research Document and Professional Portfolio.
Unit 2: Making your work public
This unit is designed to help you refine your ideas and how to articulate them to different audiences. Discussion forums will help you position your ideas within contemporary dialogues and debates. Consultancies with visiting guests will give you a chance to get professional feedback on your practice and development.
A series of professional development workshops will help you with communication of your work, exhibition strategies and project management. You’ll take part in and organise projects with other students and external partners and present work in a postgraduate show
You’ll submit a proposal that outlines how you plan to progress your professional practice during the unit 3. And, as part of the unit, you’ll be asked to produce a Contextual Research Document and Professional Portfolio.
Unit 3: Locating and sustaining your practice
Unit 3 is about progressing your career ambitions and will take place entirely off-campus. You’ll be assigned and supported by an advisor, who is an arts professional.
You’ll research how you might activate your practice within an external context that you have chosen and identified as appropriate to your development. This may include setting up a studio collective with other students from the course, or operating within a professional context within London, other locations in the United Kingdom or abroad.
You’ll be asked to reflect on your learning and development during the unit in a Contextual Research Document. This will form part of your assessment along with your Professional Portfolio and end of unit presentation.
Note: 120 Credits must be passed before the final unit is undertaken.