About this course
- Entry year: 2012/13
- Course code: W2001
- Level: Postgraduate
- Department: Creative Industries
- Campus: Bower Ashton
- Duration: 12-18 months full time, 24-36 months part time
- Programme leader: Deborah Southerland
Introduction
This progressive practice based MA will offer you a critical and creative framework in which to challenge and explore current design practice. You will work on a range of individual and collaborative projects delivered in house by our team of creative experts, or through live collaboration with our partners in Industry.
You will propose, develop and realise intelligent design solutions that both question and celebrate the use of current artisanal processes, offset against a range of new technologies appropriate to your practice. Working collaboratively with your peers and with experts from the creative industries, you will make work that is contemporary, critically engaged, and contextually dynamic, taking a fully interdisciplinary approach to the materials and processes you use.
The course is designed for practising artists, designers and industry and technical professionals looking to extend their skills base through professional development as well as being a springboard for recent graduates to enhance their creative practice. Graduates from a range of disciplines including but not exclusive to, Product Design, Graphic Design and Applied Arts, Textiles, Fine Art may apply.
If you are driven as much by ideas as process and are excited about the possibility of developing the type of content that opens up collaboration with disciplines such as architecture, robotics, engineering, the service industry, media, product design and business and marketing, then this course is for you.
The programme will draw on the full research and practice expertise of academics, researchers and technical support staff from across the Department and the Faculty, with particular emphasis on our research excellence in the areas of Fine Print Research, Rapid Prototyping and concept driven Creative Arts.
Structure
Content
During the first semester you will study a number of mandatory modules that will enable you to review and develop your practice through a number of pertinent social, cultural and ethical lenses.
These modules will be followed in semester 2 by a choice of option modules that could include (for instance) industry-based work placements, live projects or design and technical development, followed by a period of intense design development on a context driven final major project at the end of the course.
For more detailed information on the course structure please contact the Programme Leader, Deborah Southerland.
The full masters programme comprises 180 credits divided into three 60 credits stages: Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, and Masters. Students work incrementally through the three stages and must pass all modules at each stage in order to progress to the next.
Students may join the programme as either full-time or part-time students.
Full-time students typically study for three semesters over 18 months, part-time students study for six semesters over three years. A semester is a 15-week period of study and generally runs September to January and February to June.
Entry
Entry requirements
We are looking for highly motivated creative students from a range of art and design disciplines such as Textiles, Fine Art, Product Design, Graphic Design and Applied Arts. We also welcome applications from those with a background in more technical areas such as CAD, industrial design or technical drawing. Usually applicants will have a first degree in the Visual Arts but those with other academic qualifications or relevant professional experience are also encouraged to apply.
All applicants are carefully reviewed and are invited to attend an interview. You will be asked to bring with you examples of your creative work and a statement of intent.
There is no official closing date for postgraduate programmes and we accept applications throughout the year. If you are applying to organisations for funding they may have application deadlines by which time you will need to know if you have a place on a course.You should build this deadline into your application process and if you are working to a funding deadline then please let us know.
Overseas Applicants
A representative from the University makes regular visits to Brunei, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan and is able to view portfolios and interview students.
The University also has representatives in a number of other countries. Please contact Admissions and International Recruitment for further details:
admissions@uwe.ac.uk
+44 (0)117 328 4716
If you are unable to meet up with a Bristol UWE visiting representative then please send us your application in the normal way. We will then contact you and advise you where and how to send us some samples of your creative work.
Fees
Full details of fees for this course can be found on our postgraduate fees pages.
For funding options, please see our funding and scholarships information.
How to apply
There is no official closing date and we accept applications throughout the year.
For further information
Page last updated 14 December 2011