Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 (PT) / 2 (PT) year programme
Full-time or part-time study
MFA Communication addresses the complexities, pluralities and challenges of contemporary communication. A practice-led interdisciplinary programme that explores the potential of contemporary communication as a radical and experimental creative practice.
Through critical and creative experimentation, the programme has developed a studio-based culture of critical thinking through making. With a global student body, MFA students come from a wide range of creative, cultural and philosophical backgrounds and together challenge and expand the notion of what communication is and can be. With a strong ethos of professional collaboration, this year’s cohort has engaged with international partners, including Save the Children, Friends of the Earth and Fosters Architects.
The MFA Communication is fast emerging as the place to challenge and radically transform communication practices.
Transform and redefine your professional communication practice.
Construct a bespoke interdisciplinary programme by choosing from electives provided by each of the RCA’s four Schools.
Become part of an international interdisciplinary community.
Fit study around your career with our part-time option.
Candidates are selected entirely on merit. We welcome applications from all over the world, as well as from mid-career artists and career changers. The selection criteria will consider creativity, imagination and innovation as demonstrated in your portfolio or equivalent professional experience, as well as your potential to benefit from the programme and achieve high MFA standards.
You will need to demonstrate that you have the ability to engage in the study of Communication at Master's level, including existing technical skills to produce work at Master's level within a creative arts discipline.
Your final MFA Communication research project allows you to bring together your transformed approach as you design, produce and promote a project that re-defines the direction you want to take. Students work with anything from digital media, to food, fashion to film, painting to installation as they push boundaries and redefine not just their own practice but the very idea of what a practice can be.
Communication and Interdisciplinarity (15 credits)
Cultures and Contexts (15 credits)
Methods & Methodologies (15 credits)
Consolidating your Practice (15 credits)
Worldbuilding (15 credits)
Digital Storytelling (15 credits)
The Independent Research Project (60-credits)
Ranked for twelve consecutive years as the world’s number 1 art & design university*, the Royal College of Art’s postgraduate programmes enable yo...
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