DIPLOMA IN FINE ARTS
About This Course
Experimentation and exploration: Be introduced to a range of materials, techniques and methods to develop your ideas, and learn how to evaluate and reflect on your progress.
Discipline and rigour: Enjoy a process of self-discovery through art-making, with a culturally sensitive and intellectually inflected approach to studio practices that will ground your artistic trajectory.
Professional practice: Build a portfolio, interact with practicing artists and industry leaders, and be prepared for degree programmes and employment, with experiential learning through the internship module.
Intercultural immersion: Get the chance to share and reflect on creative processes with students in arts education in other regions of the world, towards sampling an illuminating range of conditions that enable different priorities and approaches to art-making.
What You'll Learn
Steered with this belief, the teaching and learning approach is firmly practice-based and studio-driven, with an emphasis on the development of your creative processes and discoveries, which are also informed by art history and cultural theory, community engagement projects and an internship experience. You will be trained and equipped with the specific skills, techniques, aesthetics and knowledge of contextual issues that ground your chosen practice.
The programme provides exposure to various fine arts media such as painting, printmaking, sculpture, graphic novel and lens-based art. You have the opportunity to present your final work in your specialised area through a self-proposed project.
The programme also emphasises an interdisciplinary approach to learning, which allows you to discover and establish cross-disciplinary methodologies in the development of your artwork. As this diploma launches the preliminary stage of your artistic journey, you have the freedom to seek and hone your unique creative voice and to appreciate and practise the usage of materials and art processes confidently. You will be ready to build on these skills and understandings at higher and deeper levels after completing this programme.
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Entry Requirements
The qualifications listed below are common entry qualifications submitted by applicants.
- Singapore-Cambridge GCE O-Level with a pass in English at Grade C6 or better, and an aggregate score of 25 points or better in four other GCE O-Level subjects
- GCSE/IGCSE (five subject passes, including English, at Grade 9-4)
- Full-time Higher Nitec/Nitec
- Part-time Higher Nitec/Nitec (minimum GPA of 2.0 for Higher Nitec holders or 3.5 for Nitec holders)
- Singapore Integrated Programme (successfully completed Year 4 or higher)
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