Course summary

You'll develop an ambitious and creative body of work produced in our excellent studio facilities, supported by artist-lecturers and visiting practitioners, while gaining a critical awareness of your own identity as an artist, preparing you to become a critically aware artist graduate. Your portfolio will be informed and enriched by modules in art history, museum and curatorial studies, and cultural and media theory – all put into context through a practice-related dissertation. Studio work is supported by a series of professional practice modules in which you acquire skills to enable you to pursue a wide range of art-related careers. You'll initiate and organise curated exhibitions to develop both your practice and your ability to connect your practice with contemporary culture. Specialist facilities The School has excellent facilities and resources. You'll work in well lit studios with 24-hour access and will benefit from versatile exhibition spaces and social areas. Resources include:

• dedicated Mac and PC computer suites for audio production, video editing animation and image manipulation;

• printmaking workshops for etching, relief and screen printing;

• a photography darkroom for film developing and printing;

• a woodworking and casting area;

• digital and 3D printing.

• The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery

• Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery

• Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

• Marks & Spencer Company Archive

• International Textile Collection

• Public art trail

• Project Space – a multi-purpose space in the School designed for the development of curatorial practice and visiting exhibitions.