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In the first week of term, the students are introduced to each other through a shared work seminar, with each student presenting three or four pieces of work. There follows three one-week inductions into intaglio, lithography and screenprint, which is integrated with a brief introduction to the broad range of still and moving digital image facilities across the College.
In the first term a study trip allows us to share the pleasure of looking and discussing work together but away from the College. Each student then begins the process of working to develop a self-initiated body of studio work. This is supported and challenged by lectures, seminars, workshops, exhibitions, group critiques and tutorials. Students can sign up to see any member of staff, and have a different personal tutor in the first and second terms to allow them to receive differing opinions and introduce them to all staff.
First years take part in a work-in-progress show and at least one external exhibition. Students also undertake the mandatory Critical & Historical Studies programme in their first year, in which a series of lectures, seminars and tutorials culminates in the submission of a dissertation at the start of the second year.
External residencies such as the Paris studio give students the opportunity to work abroad.
Students are expected to produce a coherent body of work in a form that reflects their developing ideas and interests. Each student gives a presentation about their work to their peer group but also to BA students at colleges throughout the UK. There is at least one external exhibition and the same range of support as in the first year except that each student has one personal tutor for the whole year.
The year begins with the submission of the dissertation in the first week of term. Each student gives a presentation in the lecture theatre about their work, in which they are expected to contextualise and reflect upon that work. A publishing project takes place which involves all students. A meeting with the External Examiner takes place in the second term, in preparation for the final show and examination in the third term.