Dartington College of Arts
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| Established | 1961 |
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| Principal | Andrew Brewerton |
| Academic Registrar | Jon Owen |
| Staff | 30 |
| Undergraduates | 500 |
| Postgraduates | 60 |
| Doctoral students | 50 |
| Location | Totnes, Devon, England |
| Campus | Rural |
| Website | http://www.dartington.ac.uk/ |
Dartington College of Arts is a college near Totnes, Devon, South West England, specialising in Post-dramatic Theatre, Music, Performance Writing and Visual Performance, focusing on a performative and multi-disciplinary approach to the arts. In addition to this, lecturing staff are all in some way active arts practitioners. The college aims to promote a critical self awareness in contemporary arts practice, and as such is firmly entrenched in Post-modernism.
The College was founded in 1961 having evolved as part of the original Dartington experiment in rural regeneration. It is now funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Academic degrees are validated in partnership with the University of Plymouth. The College is currently (as of 2006) under a process of Academic Review by which it is hoped it will be accredited the ability to validate its degrees independently. The college is currently (as of November 2006) considering relocating from Dartington to Falmouth,Cornwall.
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[edit] Campus
The college is rural and is divided into four campuses, Higher Close, Lower Close, Aller Park and Foxhole. Higher Close is home to the student bar, "The Rat and Emu" (commonly shortened to "The Rat").
[edit] Academics
All BA students embark on a Contextual Enquiry Project in their third year of study. The project is investigative, and requires the student to examine his or her work in a broader social context. This practice is an example of the College's roots in Dartington School and the Alternative education movement which developed from the ideas of Rudolf Steiner from the early twentieth century onwards.
[edit] Student life
Living in a close knit community of artists is both intense and stimulating. The coagulation of powerful and creative minds as well as the opportunity to interact with like-minded individuals from their resepective artistic fields, has led to fine collaboration and firm friendships that projects far into the students' futures. Dartingtons rural context is a perfect place to explore new concepts and ideas involving the arts far from the maddening, illusory and constrictive effects cities can have. It is both safe and sound, and while lacking in entertainment around the college, students find their own way of entertainment by putting on shows and festivals themselves. Student life in Dartington is all about what you want, pursuing and finding it, not waiting for it to come to you.
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