COURSE: BA IN FINE ARTS

The B.A.(Fine Arts) degree is invaluable for any career that requires creative and imaginative intelligence, innovative thinking, and a critical knowledge of the arts and visual literacy.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 4 year full time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subject:

• Sculpture


• Printmaking


• Painting


• Drawing


• Theory of art


• History of art

Second year subjects:

• Sculpture


• Printmaking


• Painting


• Drawing


• Visual story-telling


• Art historical genres reconsidered

Third year subjects:

• Fine arts


• Critical approached to space and gender


• Imagining the city


• Art management and administration


• Drawing

Fourth year subjects:

• Fine arts


• Fine art research


• Recent development in visual art and culture


• Visual art research


• Curatorial project


• Art administration and management

Careers: professional or free lance artist, graphic designer, illustrator in children's books, and medical, botanical or other science books and periodicals, proprietor of an art gallery or dealer in art, custodian, curator, advisor and researcher for public and private art collections, exhibition officer, exhibition designer and exhibition planner, official in the Department of Arts and Culture, educator in art.

Source: www.ufs.ac.za

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