Fine Art with Learning & Teaching in Higher Education MA

Facts about Fine Art with Learning & Teaching in Higher Education

Qualification	MA (inclusive of a PgCert in Higher Education validated by the Higher Education Academy)
Duration	Full time: 1 year Part time: 2 years
Attendance	Full time: 2 days per week Part time: 1 day per week (equivalent)
Assessment	Seminar presentations/individual and collaborative exhibition production and documentation
Course structure

Choose Kingston's Fine Art with Learning and Teaching MA

This innovative course offers fine art graduates the opportunity to study the subject at MA level alongside a PgCert in higher education.

A PgCert is increasingly a requirement for new teachers in further and higher education. The University has a well-established and very successful PgCert in higher education in-house.

What will you study?

Through a combination of studio project and theoretical study you will have the opportunity to:

develop and apply critical frameworks;
debate a range of theoretical, cultural and social issues; and
consider a variety of approaches to communicating and publishing your own research.

You will focus on individual and collaborative practices, new technology, exhibition production and design, and a theoretical and critical programme to challenge and contextualise individual research.

Research areas

Many of the staff in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture are research active. This ensures they are in touch with the latest thinking and bring best practice to your studies.
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Course structure

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Modules

Project 1: Individual
Projects 2 and 3: Learning and Teaching in HE
Project 4: Theory (European Arts Practice)
Major Project
Major Project

For this module, you must complete a major project for public exhibition. The module will:
- equip you with the ability to fund-raise, seek sponsorship and prepare exhibition and project proposals;
- familiarise you with the relevant skills for effective project management and production, audience development, marketing and for publication and dissemination of work;
- develop your individual research into a finished work for publication, either as a print-based book/catalogue or as a media work for publication on DVD/CD/the course website.