Undergraduate Programme
The Undergraduate Programme at Camberwell works together as a creatively and critically engaged community of staff and students. Each course is designed to allow you to gain a deep understanding of your chosen subject while providing opportunities for you to access the broad-ranging interdisciplinary debates and activities that are shared by all the courses in the programme. This depth and breadth approach allows you to reflect on your own individual development from within your subject and participate in a constantly changing and challenging environment of conceptual and cultural diversity. We believe that today many artists and designers operate in a similar way, with strength and confidence in their own discipline and the ability to work and think across others.
Our degree programme is made up of three strands:
Major,
Elective,
Personal and Professional Development (PPD).
This structure allows you to develop a focused and specialised knowledge of your own subject (Major) while broadening your ability to work across a range of disciplines and understand cross-disciplinary issues (Elective). It also supports you in acquiring an understanding of your own professional context and allows you to develop skills to prepare you for the demands of life after college (PPD).
Major
Your major acts as the 'centre of gravity' for your studies allowing you to explore from the centre to the edges of your subject and beyond without inhibition. The programme gives you the flexibility to progress through your studies in a continuous, fluid way with a number of opportunities to change direction if needed. Your tutors are all practitioners in their field. They will introduce you to ideas, processes and experiences that will help shape your development as an
independent, critically aware and professionally adept practitioner. Each course has access to a range of visiting tutors from the diverse and internationally renowned London art, design and communications industries. As you progress through your course you will be expected to take greater responsibility for your direction and development until, at Level Three, your studies should be entirely self-directed.
Elective
Each year you will undertake study that contextualises and enhances your experience in your major, giving you the opportunity to test out your ideas with other media or feed your studio practice with new concepts, technologies or processes. Your choice of elective should reflect your own personal interests and direction and at the same time
widen your expectations and challenge your assumptions. Recent electives on offer have included Philosophy, Animation, Printmaking and Digital Image Making in Level One; 'Image and Meaning', Book Arts, Internet Authoring and Photography at Level Two; Curation, Dissertation, Live Project, Studio Project and Work Placement at Level Three. The Electives on offer may vary slightly from year to year according to student demand, but full details are provided well in advance.
PPD (Personal and Professional Development)
PPD offers a programme of lectures, workshops and projects run parallel to your major studies that help you to see yourself individual practitioner in relation to the wider professional context. It also allows you to develop research and communication skills as increase your ability to reflect on your own progress and strategically. In the second year PPD invites all students to make own exhibitions, publications, performances, screenings or interventions,
engaging with real sites, audiences, clients and markets. This experience allows you to gain an understanding of the relationships between:
- Your ideas
- What you make
- Your audience / client / user
- The professional skills, networks and protocols that relate to discipline
Please click on the following subject areas to view our courses: