Design Practice
Postgraduate
In Wrexham
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Wrexham (Wales)
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Start date
Different dates available
Overview of the programme MA Art Practice and MA Design Practice share the taught part of the Master's programme and provide a framework for experienced artists and designers to extend their skills. In addition students will have opportunity to expand their skills into new subject disciplines as they work their ideas through into images and objects. Much of the learning is “situation based” – meaning that the experience gathered from previous work is brought to bear upon challenging and complex scenarios in which problems need to be understood and solutions developed. Postgraduate students have opportunity to exhibit their works and to take part in New Designers – a major opportunity to showcase new talent to the creative and design industries.
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Subjects
- IT
- Design
- Skills and Training
- Art
- Works
Course programme
- Opportunity to learn new skills in painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, animation, illustration, graphics, graphic novels, ceramics, glass and jewellery metalwork.
- Take part in Creative Futures, an event to focus upon career options for those with creative skills with visiting speakers from a wide range of art and design professions.
- Take the opportunity to collaborate or form a collective to enhance your career potential
- Showcase your work in the university Gallery Sycharth, School of Creative Arts or other external venues.
- Explore your potential as a researcher as you learn about the methods and protocols of supervised study.
The curriculum is split into 3 stages: The Postgraduate Certificate, the Postgraduate Diploma and the Master of Arts Degree. The Certificate and Diploma comprise Part 1 of the programme and the Master’s Stage is Part 2.
Part 1 comprises three 40 credit modules in which you will discover and disclose the influences that feed into your creative practice – for some it is artworks, for others it may be writing or music – we all draw inspiration from particular sources. You have chance to deepen your understanding of these influences and evaluate your responses to them.
We also include a research orientated module, to teach you systems and methods of researching in order that you can grow in confidence as your knowledge becomes increasingly specialised and your opinions more informed by your findings.
Finally in Part 1 of the programme, we demonstrate how to audit our own skills as “creatives”, and to use that experience to develop a project tailored to your individual needs and career aspiration.
In Part 2, you will consolidate your researches and nominate a project that can be expressed in two forms; words and visuals. Normally, Master of Arts students submit a short dissertation relating to their practical work, or a word based activity equivalent to a dissertation in its depth of enquiry and reasoning. The resulting practical work is exhibited at the conclusion of the programme.
Major assessments are positioned at the end of each module, with formative assessment around the mid way point. Assessments are inclusive and all students are encouraged to engage with their assessors and justify the creative decisions leading to their works. We try to make assessments an important part of learning but not intimidating. We encourage and reward creative energy.
The information listed in this section is an overview of the academic content of the programme that will take the form of either core or option modules. Modules are designated as core or option in accordance with professional body requirements and internal academic framework review, so may be subject to change.
Design Practice