This studio based course focuses on the students' sculptural practice, and the importance of skills acquisition, experimentation, interdisciplinary technologies, and the manipulation of materials. Practical aspects of professional practice are taught - the development of project proposals, the documentation of completed work, the formal exhibition of project work. Research skills are introduced to encourage an increased rigour in the realisation of ideas, including exploratory field work, preparatory drawing, journals, analysis and critique of work in progress and completed project work. Problem solving projects are devised to ensure a continued, lateral approach to the students' chosen areas of interest, which are addressed in self-initiated project work. Appropriate health and safety procedures are demonstrated, discussed and practised in the production of works.