Art Foundation: Learning outcomes

The Art Foundation will give you the broad knowledge and skills that will enable you to gain the maximum benefit from your chosen undergraduate course.

Successful completion of the course will enable you to:

  • identify and attain your future goals in Higher Education or chosen employment;
  • display a broad range of skills acquired through intensive experimentation, risk-taking and creativity;
  • display the skills and abilities needed for self-reliant learning and the ability to take responsibility for the overall direction of your own work;
  • display critical awareness of both the contemporary and historical visual world and of your own work through your ability to analyse, interpret and evaluate;
  • be able to make connections between your own work and that of other artists and designers, past and present, from your own and other cultures;
  • identify the main argument in a lecture, seminar or debate and focus your response on this;
  • hold a particular view while analysing alternatives objectively and acknowledging all sides of an argument.