English Plus Art and Design

Section 1: Overview

Is this course for me?

• This course is ideal for students who want to improve their English whilst practising their art and design skills.
• It allows you to prepare a portfolio of artwork for future study or work purposes.
• It combines general English with specialist art and design related disciplines.

Section 2: Course structure and content

• 20 lessons (15 hours) per week of General English
• 8 lessons (6 hours) per week Art and Design
  + independent project/portfolio work

General English lessons

Your general English lessons will be designed to improve your reading, writing, speaking and listening at a consistent rate. Each week, lessons will focus on a different topic.

You will be assigned to your general English class based on your current Kings Level. We have classes right through to Level 8 (Advanced), and you will progress up through the levels as your skills improve and your confidence grows.

Specialised Art and Design lessons

• The art and design lesson content is determined by the student, and is structured around their experience and personal interests. This allows a broad range of students to gain a different, personally tailored experience in art and design.
• Each student fills in a questionnaire on arrival and has a tutorial with their art teacher in their first lesson where they discuss their art background and previous experience as well as their learning goals.
• Students can attend with different levels of experience in art and design, from degree level, or pre-masters students to complete beginners, and can attend for different amounts of time.
• Those who are planning further study in art and design can get portfolio advice and expert guidance on how to prepare effectively for art courses or job applications.
• Students will get an understanding of how art and design is taught in the UK through project work to develop creative thinking.
• Many students simply want to work on their drawing skills, either for themselves or for courses for which they are planning to apply.

Art and design techniques

• Drawing
• Painting
• Sculpture
• Printmaking
• Photography
• Practical 3-D design, for example, modelling, construction and design process including drawing
• Fashion/textiles

Kings Oxford also offers:

• Stop frame animation
• Graphic design
• Illustration

Portfolio development

• Students will be advised on further art and design study in the UK.
• Portfolio development can consist of advice on selecting and presenting work, creating new work for a portfolio and giving a student the means to continue developing their portfolio after their course.
• Students wanting to work on portfolios should bring, if possible, images of any previous work and work in progress that they may wish to include in their portfolio.