Academy of Fine Arts
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| Education program for the Master Programme in Fine Arts, 120 points | ||||||||||||||
| Master
of Fine Arts Department: Fine Arts Subject: Fine Arts Level: The programme leads to a Master’s degree in Fine Arts |
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| Establishment | ||||||||||||||
| The
programme was established by the Vice-Chancellor on 15 11 2005. The
education plan was approved by the Faculty of Arts on 2 Nov 2005. |
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| Goals and contents | ||||||||||||||
| Focus:
The Master programme provides advanced and specialised experience
and skills in artistic work, theory and techniques with a focus on
investigative artistic development. The education will provide more depth and continued studies to complement the Bachelor programme. The bachelor programme covers the following: A broad orientation and deeper understanding of contemporary art's practitioners, methods and impact. The theoretical and practical skills to allow students to express and formulate their artistic work and unique characteristics in various media. The ability to reflect over students’ own artistic work in both written and oral form through encouragement and constructive critique. An understanding in contemporary theory and art history. The ability to critically analyse cultural ideas and contexts in which they exist and inspire and debate issues related to art or subjects that are of interest for art. The opportunity to examine and explore relevant institutions, organisations and environments for art, such as art biennials and museums, and discussions on production, distribution, consumption and documentation of contemporary art locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. The education is to also be designed so that the teaching includes ethnic and cultural diversity and a gender perspective. The following applies for the Master’s programme: To a greater degree than the bachelor’s programme, students will: Be responsible for their artistic work. Take initiatives for discussions and debates and be able to argue for and present ideas. Summary: The focus is on strengthening the students’ skills in developing, formulating, organising, promoting, evaluating, presenting and communicating their own investigative artistic development and practicing analysis of their own field’s methods and framework of knowledge from art and/or other fields. |
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| Programme design | ||||||||||||||
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education is internationally focused with many guest teachers from
abroad and is aimed at students who want to work professionally as
artists in Sweden or abroad or in fields in society where artistic
knowledge and research are of importance. All students will have
access to a studio during their studies. Tuition consists of project work (individually and in groups), guidance (individually and in groups), lectures, seminars, courses and field studies. For students who have not taken the introductory courses in the Bachelor programme which give access to the workshops, courses will be provided. Courses in artistic work, theory and techniques and workshops are offered from an extensive course catalogue. The course catalogue is also available on the web and is regularly updated. Students can take 15 points of electives per year among the courses in the catalogue, which means that their own artistic work is equivalent to 25 points per academic year. Students are therefore expected to establish their own course curricula together with their supervisors. The students’ own artistic work, compared to the Bachelor programme, is to show a clear progression. Required work for Master’s studies - An artistic work focused on investigative artistic development (30 points) - A cooperative project based on artistic work (5 points) - A written assignment that relates to the student’s own artistic applications and its methods. The student’s texts are continually discussed in seminars under the guidance of the supervisor and together with the student group. - Regular discussions with the supervisor on the student’s own artistic work. These artistic works are continually discussed in seminars under the guidance of the supervisor and together with the student group. - Public presentations of artistic works on at least two occasions during the study period. |
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| Prerequisites | ||||||||||||||
| A
successfully completed Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts or its
equivalent. Artistic skills as judged through documentation of investigative
artistic development. Samples (12 pictures or equivalent) and a project
plan for the first and second terms that shows the applicant’s
artistic ambitions. A jury selects from the pool of qualified applicants. After an initial selection process that uses documentation of artistic work, a group of applicants will be called to take part in interviews and approximately 12 of these will be accepted. Applicants from the EU and outside the EU are interviewed over the phone. A guaranteed spot to the Master’s programme is given to students at the Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University during a transitional period of four years. These applicants must also submit the above project plan for the first and second terms. |
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| Examination | ||||||||||||||
The
examination takes place in the fourth term and consists of: Compared with the exam work at the Bachelor level, the Master’s exam work must also show a significant level of specialisation and independence. Students will be marked with either pass or fail. |
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| Title of degree | ||||||||||||||
| The
academic programme leads to a Master in Fine Arts degree. |
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| Admission | ||||||||||||||
| Local
admission. Applications are sent to Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University,
901 87 Umeå and are to consist of documentation listed under
Prerequisites. Admission takes place once per academic year. |
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| Student exchanges | ||||||||||||||
| Student
exchanges take place preferably during the second or third term. |
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| Leave from studies | ||||||||||||||
| Leave
from studies can be granted for special cases. Applications are to
be submitted to the head of department. |
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| Credit | ||||||||||||||
| Credit
for other, equivalent art education will be given in accordance with
the University of Umeå’s credit system. |
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| Other information | ||||||||||||||
| Tuition is given in English. | ||||||||||||||
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Academy
of Fine Arts