FA3HS2: Studio (joint honours)

Module code: FA3HS2

Module provider: Art; School of Arts and Communication Design

Credits: 80

Level: 6

When you'll be taught: Semester 1 / 2

Module convenor: Professor Susanne Clausen, email: s.clausen@reading.ac.uk

Module co-convenor: Ms Karen Kramer, email: k.c.kramer@reading.ac.uk

Pre-requisite module(s):

Co-requisite module(s):

Pre-requisite or Co-requisite module(s):

Module(s) excluded:

Placement information: NA

Academic year: 2024/5

Available to visiting students: No

Talis reading list: Yes

Last updated: 18 November 2024

Overview

Module aims and purpose

This is an Art studio module that is supported by tutorials, group critiques, material sessions, weekly seminars, exhibitions, and a program of visiting artist lectures.  The aim of the module is to support and challenge you in the development of an independent, creative and critically informed art practice. The module encourages you to consolidate and develop particular (individual) interests and concerns through practical engagement in the studio and workshop areas, to prepare you for future public exhibitions and to state their positions as artists. You are further supported in the development of research skills relevant to both the development of an art practice and an understanding of its relationship to the broad field of contemporary art and to locate you practice both historically and theoretically. Through the visiting artist program you are encouraged to enhance your knowledge of career opportunities to enable you to plan and make effective applications for future postgraduate opportunities, employment, professional practice. 

You will organise regular exhibitions in the studio space and are supported in curating exhibitions outside of the department. You will be able to extend your professional experience through participation in organisational committees working on projects, such as events management, curation, marketing, fundraising and publishing.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, it is expected that students will be able to:

1. Provide evidence of self-directed, purposeful experimentation and inquiry.
2. Demonstrate an informed, effective and skilful use of materials, techniques and ideas.
3. Show evidence of imaginative and critical engagement with relevant cultural and/or other contexts.
4. Make an informed and considered selection of work that is effectively presented with appropriate methods.
5. Reflect informed decision-making and development, with a clear position and sense of ownership in relation to the work, its context and intentions.

Module content

Students will have the opportunity to extend and test the intellectual and technical skills established in previous years working with increasing independence on the development and evaluation of their studio artwork. Students will begin to take responsibility for their creative choices, analyse and propose solutions to creative questions raised. They will research and locate their work within the context of relevant historical and contemporary precedents. They will engage in research and planning - both independently and collectively - for their final show and the future.

The studio module is supervised by a diverse group of academic staff with international research practices. Seminars and lectures draw on cultural topics of current relevance. External visits to internationally renowned museums are designed as a resource for you, with which students are encouraged to consider and establish the relationship to your own practice.

Students will be trained to consider risk management and Health and Safety in the studio and will build their own study path selecting skills training and tutorials based on their personal interests and strengths. 

Structure

Teaching and learning methods

The academic tutor and module convenors will guide you as you produce work towards the degree show exhibition. The focus of the module is on self-directed study where you establish your own line of work, explored through an experimental range of media and techniques. You can use the studio space flexibly to accommodate different scales of work and types of production, as well as experiment with modes of presentation.

The teaching program supports students to both identify and realise your concerns through one-to-one tutorials, group critiques, seminars and material sessions.

Teaching staff are available in the studios daily Monday to Friday for bookable or ad hoc tutorials. You will also liaise regularly with your academic tutor twice a term in relation to your overall progress; in addition to this, peer learning and collaboration are an essential part of the module. 

Regular studio group sessions help you to critically evaluate your practice and foster reflective skills towards exhibition/presentation and documentation.

Lecturers provide practical material support as well as ideas-based sessions through a diverse range of bookable skills training sessions.
 

Study hours

At least 289 hours of scheduled teaching and learning activities will be delivered in person, with the remaining hours for scheduled and self-scheduled teaching and learning activities delivered either in person or online. You will receive further details about how these hours will be delivered before the start of the module.

Please note the independent study hours above are notional numbers of hours; each student will approach studying in different ways. We would advise you to reflect on your learning and the number of hours you are allocating to these tasks.

Semester 1 The hours in this column may include hours during the Christmas holiday period.

Semester 2 The hours in this column may include hours during the Easter holiday period.

Summer The hours in this column will take place during the summer holidays and may be at the start and/or end of the module.

Assessment

Requirements for a pass

Students need to achieve an overall module mark of 40% to pass this module

Summative assessment

Penalties for late submission of summative assessment

The Support Centres will apply the following penalties for work submitted late:

Assessments with numerical marks

• where the piece of work is submitted after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): 10% of the total marks available for that piece of work will be deducted from the mark for each working day (or part thereof) following the deadline up to a total of three working days;
• the mark awarded due to the imposition of the penalty shall not fall below the threshold pass mark, namely 40% in the case of modules at Levels 4-6 (i.e. undergraduate modules for Parts 1-3) and 50% in the case of Level 7 modules offered as part of an Integrated Masters or taught postgraduate degree programme;
• where the piece of work is awarded a mark below the threshold pass mark prior to any penalty being imposed, and is submitted up to three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline), no penalty shall be imposed;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): a mark of zero will be recorded.

Assessments marked Pass/Fail

• where the piece of work is submitted within three working days of the deadline (or any formally agreed extension of the deadline): no penalty will be applied;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than three working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension of the deadline): a grade of Fail will be awarded.

The University policy statement on penalties for late submission can be found at: https://www.reading.ac.uk/cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/qap/penaltiesforlatesubmission.pdf

You are strongly advised to ensure that coursework is submitted by the relevant deadline. You should note that it is advisable to submit work in an unfinished state rather than to fail to submit any work.

Formative assessment

Formative assessment is any task or activity which creates feedback (or feedforward) for you about your learning, but which does not contribute towards your overall module mark.

Portfolios of practice, reflective report, series of formative exhibitions with peer-review and continuous feedback.

Reassessment

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