About BA (Honours) in Visual Arts Practice (ACCS Mode)

What is Visual Arts Practice (ACCS Mode)?

This programme is offered on a flexible basis through the ACCS (Accumulation of Credits and Certification of Subjects) system. It is a 60 credit per year programme, delivered over 4 years of study and is suitable for non-traditional learners, mature students and part-time study options. The content and structure is the same as DL044 and differs only in the way it is delivered:

1. Flexible Access:

Teaching is timetabled over three evenings per week, 6:30pm to 9:30pm. There
is also a requirement to attend three times during the academic year from Monday
to Friday, 9am to 5pm. These weeks are scheduled once per term. In addition, specialist workshops and seminars may be timetabled on Friday evenings, 6:30pm to 9:30pm, and on Saturdays between 9am and 5pm.

2. Part-Time Delivery:

Part-time delivery is when less than 60 credits are taken in any one year, and places will be subject to demand. The weekly timetable follows the same pattern as Flexible Access above.

Aims and Objectives

What will I be able to do when I graduate?

Careers may arise in the creative industries as artists, curators, arts administrators, arts mediators, art gallery directors, art teachers, community arts coordinators, art directors, art critics and historians, film makers, photojournalists, image researchers, content developers.

Postgraduate opportunities include the MA in Visual Arts Practices
(DL052) at IADT.

What subjects will I study?

Introduction to Visual Arts Culture; Introduction to self-direction; Support studies, workshops and seminars; History of Visual Culture; Modernism, Modernity and Image; Postmodernism & the Avant-Garde; Interdisciplinary, Research Based
and Self-Directed Studio Practices; Exhibition Production.

What are the Entry Requirements?

• Applicants must be 21 years of age or over, and wish to further their
  education at a third-level institution
• Applicants between 21 and 23 years old must fulfil standard Leaving
  Certificate requirements
• Applicants are selected on the basis of a portfolio of their work and interview/information session.

What should my Portfolio include?

• A variety of images constructed in a variety of media (e.g., images such as paintings, drawings, photographs, collages, film/video, photographs or slides of 3D work)
• Work using media such as water colours, oils, acrylics, crayons, pastels, pencils, charcoal, coloured papers, photographs, video tape, construction in plaster, wood, metal, wax, found objects/materials, etc
• All these media and forms need not be present but some variety in media and format is essential. The key requirement is to demonstrate inventiveness, experimentation, flexibility, stylistic variation, visual and conceptual interest
• Project work dealing with concepts and ideas. Project work demonstrates the development of an idea through a series of distinct stages from initial idea/theme, through experiment and research, to final outcome and conclusion. It may be presented in the form of project notebooks, sketches/test pieces and final outcomes, and it can be in any medium
• You may submit work from relevant fields other than art practice, such as literature/theatre/film/architecture/IT/Design, etc, as part of your portfolio – this
  is particularly welcomed from the non-traditional learner and mature student.

What is the closing date?

Applications must be made directly to IADT by 4pm on Friday, 8th May 2009.

Should places become available after that date, a second round of applications
will be accepted until Friday, 21st August 2009.

Contact the Admissions Office for the programme application form

Are there any costs for materials and/or field trips?

Approx. €1,000 - €1,500 per year. This figure excludes exceptional purchases, field trips, preparation for exhibitions, national / international competitions, etc.

What are the fees?

€3,910 for EU nationals + examination fee

€9,000 for non-EU nationals + examination fee

* Please note: This programme is subject to reaching a set minimum
number of participants in order to proceed.