Design MA

Course Overview

This course is intended for practitioners from a range of design disciplines wanting to advance their design practice and develop their skill base while developing a greater understanding of the theoretical knowledge underpinning design processes. In a creative and challenging interdisciplinary environment, design theories are questioned and established while individual creative solutions are explored. Our course looks across traditional boundaries within visual design practices, encouraging you to develop design possibilities for your individual practice while examining theoretical and professional contexts. We will encourage you to engage with design discourses and new directions, thereby contextualizing your individual practice. Our course will initially facilitate the contextualization of your practice, through research methods, current contexts, and playful exploratory design practice. Then, you will have the opportunity to develop your understanding of project management, effective collaboration, and the communication of design practice to professional audiences. Lastly, the final major project provides a chance to undertake a significant self-initiated design project.

General Eligibility

Candidates will hold a 2:1 honours degree in an appropriate Design subject, or have evidence of recent professional work equivalent to honours degree standard. Through the submission of a portfolio and statement of intent on application, then further through the interview, candidates must be able to demonstrate a level of knowledge and competence appropriate to the demands of the course and to demonstrate the potential to benefit from that study. Consideration will be given to those who hold a lower classification who can demonstrate they are capable of performing at the level required to complete the course successfully.

Part Time Work Details

Language Requirement

• 6.5 (no less than 5.5 in any band)