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loughborough art foundation

just wondering if theres anyone who knows what the loughborough art foundation course is like? anyone starting in september or has anyone been on it and got some opinions of it?
thanks

Reply 1

prXXX344d

1

I've got friends doing it and apparently its hard work at times (lol yeh sure) but its good.

Reply 2

Montrose

17

Another wishy washy comment: one of my friends did it last year and enjoyed it. Again, hard work, 9-5 most days by the sound of it, but he's now here doing a Graphic Design degree so they must have done something right!

Reply 3

baby_emmy

15

It's 9-5 every day unless you have a trip or time off to do coursework... You do have 1hr lunch too btw!!

It is apparantly really good fun! But come towards the end of the year you will have a lot of work going on, and can be stressful!

You'll be down in the Art school (suprisingly) so nearest halls would be Butler (self catered) and Towers (catered)

-x-

Reply 4

Ariasa

hamish89

just wondering if theres anyone who knows what the loughborough art foundation course is like? anyone starting in september or has anyone been on it and got some opinions of it?
thanks

im hopefully going there in septmeber!
what do you want to specialise in? I dont know yet..:P
If you know any other people going on the course, please let me know.. id love to meet people before I actually go!!
:smile:

Reply 5

*dancing*shoes*

Hey!!! I've just finished the art foundation course this year at loughborough and i can say it was soooo much fun! It's really hard work and very intensive but a good laugh! I got to try so many new things and then towards the end of the course, when you specialise in the area you want to do ur degree on you learn so much stuff! The whole year was jam packed! and theres a brilliant social side to the school of art and design! You are in uni mon, tues, thurs and friday, 9.30-3.30! altho towards the end of the course you can pretty much come and go as you want! Ummm what else can i tell you....i duno, if uv got any more q's then ask! But this year really has been so much fun! x x

Reply 6

*dancing*shoes*

PS...closest halls are probably butler and towers, closely followed by Holt/Bill Mo/Harry French!

Reply 7

hamish89

OP

thanks it sounds pretty good, when your doing thefoundation course, do you still get to stay in halls with everyone else and join in with everything or are you rather secluded from the rest of the uni? do you ever work with people on degree courses?

Reply 8

Montrose

17

Art foundation people are involved just like everyone else. Don't think they do work with other degree courses though, but they live on campus, go out with everyone...just another Loughborough Uni student!!

Reply 9

Memphis

8

Montrose

Art foundation people are involved just like everyone else. Don't think they do work with other degree courses though, but they live on campus, go out with everyone...just another Loughborough Uni student!!

Well doing art makes them slightly inferior :biggrin:

*Awaits heated response*

Reply 10

*dancing*shoes*

Yep Art foundationers are totally involved in Uni life still! You live life like a totally normal fresher and have exactly the same privilges and access as an undergraduate! I've loved it this year! We did have a couple of opportunities to work with the degree students! It's all in the same block, so the foundation and degree students all mix in corridors and the cafe and stuff! Also, when ur choosing ur degree they open up the degree studios to you and you get to go and talk to all the degree students and tutors and stuff which was really useful!, thats if you want to stay at Loughborough to do the degree! The graphics and illustration degrees are in a different buliding in town tho, which is also where you do life drawing in the first introductory stage! So you'll get to have a nosey down there too!

And Memphis...don't get me started! :p:

hehee! art can be practical too! I don't understand all the real arty farty stuff, like white canvases and errrm pickled animals in jars! ha! but visual communication/graphics means practical and useful work! and anyway...we dont get out of the academic side! Ther's a big written element to the course!! It's not all splashing paint about! teehehee!...i think thats enough of standing up for the art crew now!

Reply 11

Holty-Dave

13

Memphis

Well doing art makes them slightly inferior :biggrin:

*Awaits heated response*

ooo Controversial!

Well the world would be kind of boring without artists, our walls would be bare. And everyone i've met who does art I've found to be really interesting (probably cos its something different from my chem eng degree which really isn't that exciting :p:

)

Reply 12

*dancing*shoes*

hehe you see! theres a point to us really! someones got to be a bit mad! and plus...whos going to advertise your chemical engineering product stuff things! ha! :biggrin:

Reply 13

Holty-Dave

13

*dancing*shoes*

hehe you see! theres a point to us really! someones got to be a bit mad! and plus...whos going to advertise your chemical engineering product stuff things! ha! :biggrin:

Next time I need someone to advertise my chemical engineering products I'll look ya up :smile:

As for being mad, my course is driving me to borderline insanity.

Reply 14

hamish89

OP

cool ive yet to hear a bad thing about the foundation, so it must be pretty good, the course seems like a nice friendly community of creative people which cant be bad

Reply 15

*dancing*shoes*

Holty-Dave

Next time I need someone to advertise my chemical engineering products I'll look ya up :smile:

As for being mad, my course is driving me to borderline insanity.

lol i dont even know if chem eng ever needs advertising (?!) but just in case, you know where i am!

but yep, hamish, it is really friendly...all my friends ive made on the course have really enjoyed it, and its definitely well taught. some lecturers of course are better than others, but generally no complaints! and thers the odd trip which actually just acts like socials - especially the london trip - mucho fun! -and there are also LUSAD socials for all the art students (degree and foundation combined)...

Reply 16

Montrose

17

I've never heard a single bad word about the Art department here actually, no matter what course. :smile:

Reply 17

*dancing*shoes*

me too!

Reply 18

rich_greeny

doss..................

don't blame me, blame hey ewe's drink offers! EYH!!

Reply 19

*milkandcookiesplease*

hi there, im in yr12 at the moment nd hav looked at a lot of prospectus's, but loughborough seems to be the one that i think id enjoy the most. I am considering applying there for the art foundation course then going on to do the degree in textiles, probably multi-media. does anybody know anyone that does this course, and if they recomend it? also, how many places are available on the foundation course? Im so worried that my work wont be good enough! any tips for anything extra i can do in the summer? thanks, Holly. :smile:

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