The Winchester Guide to Keywords and Concepts for International Students in Art, Media and Design

PREFACE

Studying is always rewarding and daunting, ecstatic and frustrating, challenging and demanding. It is doubly so in a second language. The guide you hold in your hand is designed with these demands and rewards in mind, crafted carefully over many years to heighten the positive elements of studying art, design or media in a second language and to minimise the negative elements. This book’s goal is to make your life as a student easier and more fulfilling. The authors of the work have long experience with second-language learning situations, including having both studied and taught in such settings, and they have determined what kinds of information would be of most benefit to students of art, design or media in English when students are not native speakers of the language. The fields of art, design and media are internationalising at a rapid rate, demanding collaborations across national borders and often in English. Students well versed in the English-language study of these fields will have distinct advantages and will also be able to generate satisfying collaborative projects.

Based at the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton, Annie Lu Makhoul is head of the International Studies Department and Simon Morley is an artist and writer who teaches fine art and has much experience working with international students. Together they recognised over their years of engaging with the ever-growing second-language population in art, design and media that a guide ...