Structure
Course Structure
We offer a practice-led, seminar and research based course which has core and optional modules and self-directed study. The core modules are concerned with the exploration of subjectivity, the formation of the self, strategies for resisting normative practices, and the potential queer theory has for making and writing. The module options offer an opportunity to explore a range of related disciplines that enable you to direct your own study according to your particular interest or choice.
The core and option modules will enable you to develop your individual art based and/or written practice. Our focus here is on making, writing and performing and candidates will be able to negotiate the exact balance between their arts-based production and the written component in consultation with staff. Both taught core and option modules are delivered in the evenings across the week in both the postgraduate certificate and postgraduate diploma stages. The core modules will provide you with different frameworks through which you can critically examine your arts practice within the context of queer studies, while the option modules will enable you to explore new terrain within contemporary intellectual debates and interdisciplinary contexts. You will have the opportunity to both enhance your existing skills and acquire new skills throughout the course. As a full-time student you will be allocated a studio or workspace (if appropriate to your practice), while as a part-time student you will be expected to have your own studio or workspace (if appropriate to your practice). Modules may be completed by negotiated project or exclusively in a written form, and the final Master’s submission will be by final negotiated presentation, exhibition, performance or dissertation.
Students are encouraged to visit exhibitions and events regularly, and our regional, national and periodic international study visits will provide inspiration, while the extensive programme of professional practice lectures and seminars, delivered by visiting artists, curators and writers will enable you to learn from some of the best in the field. Our academic members of staff are all research active and exhibit work publicly. They are available for advice and guidance.
Modules
Core Modules
Stage 1:
Subjectivity, Arts and Culture (30 credits)
Plus 2 shared option modules (15 credits each)
Stage 2:
Queer Strategies in Practice (30 credits)
Research in Practice (RiP) at 30 (or 15 credits)
plus 1 if shared option module (15 credits) if Rip is followed at 15 credits
Stage 3:
Final Presentation or Dissertation (60 credits)
Shared Option Modules (15 credits)
Term 1:
Advanced Practice
Art in the Public Realm
Arts Policy and Cultural Planning
Discourses in Art and Design
Perspectives on Art as a Global Human Experience
Subjectivity, Arts and Culture
Term 2:
Art and New Media
Models and Methods of Curatorial Practice
Mythologies of Madness
Photography as Research
Project Planning
Queer Strategies in Practice
Small Arts Business Set Up
Unconscious to Conscious Theories