Graduate Diploma: Art & Design

Course content - 2017 entry

• Term 1
• Term 2
• Term 3

Our Graduate Diploma: Art & Design is made up of three terms. The course develops your English language, academic, research and study skills, knowledge of visual and cultural contexts and critical and analytical abilities in relation to your chosen area of interest.

An interdisciplinary teaching approach supports students with a range of different qualifications and previous experience.

• View the programme specification for 2016 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course stages

• Creative Art and Design 1: Exploration

  You will learn about the practice and the process of exploration of creative problem solving in relation to both your specialist focus and the broader creative industries in a global context. This will involve peer discussions and debates with the purpose of problem solving, critical questioning and self-reflection. These learning processes will help to inform and lead you to a series of creative solutions that will enable you to explore the transformation of information into knowledge.

• Research Methods and Critical Analysis with English for Academic Purposes

  This unit runs throughout the 30 week course across both semesters. The aim is to develop and embed effective and practical research methods - introducing students to advanced critical inquiry, academic and critical writing, and independent research. This is delivered concurrently with the theoretical and practical teaching of English language practical skills.

Our Graduate Diploma: Art & Design is made up of three terms. The course develops your English language, academic, research and study skills, knowledge of visual and cultural contexts and critical and analytical abilities in relation to your chosen area of interest.

An interdisciplinary teaching approach supports students with a range of different qualifications and previous experience.

• View the programme specification for 2016 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course stages

• Design and Visual Culture with English for Academic Purposes

  In this unit you will examine traditional and current ideas in the development of design and visual culture within a contemporary context. The debates during the unit will help you explore the relationship between the types of narratives and the social and cultural identities that can in part be determined by the objects, texts and images that we produce and experience.

• Research Methods and Critical Analysis with English for Academic Purposes

  This unit runs throughout the 30 week course across both semesters. The aim is to develop and embed effective and practical research methods - introducing students to advanced critical inquiry, academic and critical writing, and independent research. This is delivered concurrently with the theoretical and practical teaching of English language practical skills.

Our Graduate Diploma: Art & Design is made up of three terms. The course develops your English language, academic, research and study skills, knowledge of visual and cultural contexts and critical and analytical abilities in relation to your chosen area of interest.

An interdisciplinary teaching approach supports students with a range of different qualifications and previous experience.

• View the programme specification for 2016 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course stages

• Creative Art and Design 2 : Engagement

  Engagement involves the creation and the production of a self-directed major project. This means that you will use your Student Learning Agreement as a starting point and your project will relate directly to your problem solving activities, research sources and proposed output.

• Research Methods and Critical Analysis with English for Academic Purposes

  This unit runs throughout the 30 week course across both semesters. The aim is to develop and embed effective and practical research methods - introducing students to advanced critical inquiry, academic and critical writing, and independent research. This is delivered concurrently with the theoretical and practical teaching of English language practical skills.

• View the programme specification for 2016 entry

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change.

Course stages