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Study Details: 1 year full-time OR 2 years part-time
MA Graphic Design is designed to progressively develop your expertise as a creative practitioner. The course will advance your knowledge, skills and specialism within the field of visual communication. The curriculum builds your knowledge and skills in a structured and cumulative way. Early modules lay the foundation with core design principles and essential research methods.
As you progress, intermediate modules expand your skills in analysis, critical dialogue, and interdisciplinary collaboration, encouraging you to question traditional design practices. In advanced stages, you will integrate theory, practice, research, entrepreneurship and innovation. This will culminate in a practice-led investigation which challenges you to apply your learning to real-world design challenges.
Each stage of the programme builds on the last, ensuring a coherent development of your conceptual, technical and strategic skills while. fuelling your personal passion for exploring the possibilities within the visual realm of text and image.
You will normally have a minimum 2:2 UK undergraduate honours degree (or equivalent) in Graphic Design or Illustration or a related subject and you may need to submit a portfolio.
Equivalent international qualifications are also accepted.
Overseas applicants will require IELTS with an overall score of 6.5 and no less than 5.5 in any category, or an equivalent accepted English qualification.
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We cultivate highly motivated, independent and creative thinkers who can transfer their skills into the creative marketplace, as entrepreneurial innovators, freelance practitioners and innovative team players. Past graduates predominantly achieve graduate-level positions or practise as sole traders, design studio artists, exhibiting artists, museum curators, archivists, researchers, academics, community practitioners, specialist technicians and filmmakers at national and international levels.vans
MA in Graphic Design is composed of five modules, totalling 180 credits.
Core modules:
Design Thinking
Design Behaviours
Message, Audience, Context
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