Careers

Fine Art graduates from the University of Chichester are eminently employable. Employers always stress that the qualities they most want to see from graduates include things like creativity (which might be broken down into skills like being able to take initiative, decisiveness, problem-solving, innovation, adaptability, imagination and the ability to generate fresh ideas) and good communication skills. (You can see evidence of this first hand at: www.prospects.ac.uk)

The Fine Art degree at the University of Chichester prides itself in embedding creativity (in all it's components) and communication skills centrally within the degree programme. Offering students further key skills that are both useful for artists, but more importantly, are life-skills that will help them in all sorts of employment situations.

These broadly might be described as the ability to:

• reflect critically on ones' own learning
• show self direction, manage ones' own time, and take personal responsibility
• identify and solve problems
• anticipate and accommodate change
• show initiative and to use good working practices
• demonstrate interpersonal skills and be able to work as part of a group
• research, communicate and present ideas in verbal, written and visual forms
• source, manage and present information through IT systems

What can I do with a Fine Art Degree from Chichester?

Recent graduates have gone on to become successful Practicing Artists, Art Educators, Primary & Secondary School Teachers, Lecturers at Further and Higher Education, Art Administrator/managers, Art Therapists, Art Historians, critics and journalists and Environmental collaborators.

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