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Awarding body:

Lasalle College Of The Arts

Start Date:

Jan-11

Cost:

SING $20,000 for the entire course

Duration:

1.5 Year(s)

Study mode:

Full time

Course description:

This programme cultivates a teaching and learning methodology that values artistic practice. It strives for a balance between contemporary art practices within students own socio-cultural milieu and theoretical discourses around it. The programme also underscores the beliefs that through studio experimentation and innovation, it is the role of the artist in research that generates and produces individual self-discipline, knowledge and discoveries that is pertinent to the realisation of artistic language/vocabulary. Students will acquire knowledge of the comprehensive critical, theoretical and historical discourses that inform contemporary artistic practice. Students will receive quality education through rigorous training that integrates research and practice, develop their abilities to conceptualise creatively, reflect upon the practice, and grow their individual and collaborative skills. The programme is delivered through a range of learning approaches that include lectures, workshops, seminars, group discussions and critiques, student presentations and individual tutorials. These approaches support the Masters candidates as they work towards a Final Research Project comprising of an exhibition of artworks and a supporting document in the form of an exegesis. Candidates are expected to be self-motivated, to engage in independent visual and theoretical research, as well as to develop the ability to evaluate their own work and to expand their awareness the critical developments in contemporary art. The graphic novel provides components on sequencing, paneling and scripting of images and text at the basic level before progressing to an independent approach top developing imagery and narration. A wide choice of media is encouraged to be used as rendering options to facilitate dynamic and suitable visual enhancements to the ideas of the visual script. Explorations with hybrids of cartoons, street art, images of popular culture and drawing are welcome extensions to the traditional ideas of the graphic novel. Students are encouraged to seek and re locate the notions about the visual narrative by acknowledging its historical context while at the same time finding ways to re interpret or even re invent ways of graphic communication. At proposal level, the importance of using conceptual influences and frameworks within a fine art perspective are key to the uniqueness of the graphic novels that appear from this specialisation.

Entry requirements:

Students must have completed a bachelor's degree and demonstrable ability to pursue discourse and research in contemporary issues in fine arts.

Application deadline:

20-Aug-10

Application details:

Applicants must pay a non refundable application fee of S$60 either by cash / NETS, credit card or cheque. In addition to these, they must submit certified-true copies of transcripts and certificates, portfolio, research proposal and statement of purpose. Certificates in a foreign language are required to be translated into English. Students may apply online. The application form must be submitted either in person at Lasalle, Programme Enquiries, Lasalle Campus (Block E, Level 1) or send the above documents in a sealed envelope to Division of Academic Administration - Admissions, LASALLE College of the Arts, 1 McNally Street, Singapore 189740.

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