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Independent Programme of Study

Name:                                                                Course:

Student ID:

The Independent Programme of Study (IPS) is your plan for the 3rd Year.  You are asked to fill in the form below outlining what you imagine you will be doing for both Unit 9 (Element 1) and Unit 10. The IPS is a way to help focus your ideas and research, and will form the basis of group or 1-1 tutorials in both forthcoming units. It also will help you lay out the research that you will need to be focussing on prior to their start.

Once completed, please upload this document back on Moodle under upload Independent Programme of Study (IPS) including Unit 9 choice here

Please type your answers under each question

Studio Work (Unit 10)

(500 words Max total)

Please describe or list:

• The main concerns that you have been engaged with in your studio practice.

• How you think these ideas may develop over the cycle of 1 year…

• The main artists/writers/theorists that you see your studio work having connections to…. .  

• The Technical skills which you want to acquire or refine in the final year

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• Any professional experiences that you might want or intend to acquire in order to better understand your area of practice.

Unit 9 (Element 1)

Please state your Unit 9 choice: Dissertation, Live Project or Work Placement

Dissertation

The Subject of Your Unit 7 Essay max one to two sentences.  

Robert Smithson – Spiral Jetty

An essay on the difficulties of Entropy, the environment, and restoration in the work.

Proposed Area of Research two to three sentences

Entropy and change in the works of T.S. Elliot, Robert Smithson, and Alex Hartley, with reference to Arnheim’s discussion of entropy

Specifics of your Research one or two sentences, including dates, geographies, key terminology

Entropy in the three works. Writing/theory on/using entropy

 Reading Eliot, Smithson, and Hartley, in light of Arnheim.

Artists/Writers list 3-5 key artists or writers that are central to your project. List individual works by artists also.

Key Terms to Define please list 5 key words or topics/subjects that you need to research and define to underwrite your thesis.

Core Background Reading which you have already read – list 3-4 texts

Core Background Reading to be read – list 3-4 texts

Specific Reading which you have already read – list 3-4 texts

Specific Reading to be read – list 3-4 texts

Questions your project will set out to ask these are provisional, but attempt 2-3 questions.  

(For Work Placements) A Shortlist of Possible Placements 3-5 examples

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