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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,920 - ≈ € 12,280 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 24 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Kingston University
Communication design is one of the fastest evolving sectors of the creative economy. This course responds to changing social needs and advancing technology, educating ambitious communication artists and designers. The aim is to emerge as an independent creator, originating unique concepts of social value.
You can choose to work towards one of the following specialist titles, determined either by your initial enrolment or your choice of projects in the final phase of the course:
* Animation
* Graphic Design
* Illustration
* Motion Graphics
You select your study specialism on application and develop your own individual approach within it throughout the course, whilst also contributing to inter-disciplinary and team work.
What will you study?
Promoting innovation, authorship and entrepreneurship, our Communication Design MFA challenges you to develop your personal vision and create clear, meaningful and appropriate work.
It challenges you to think about the future, explore social change and place your work within defined contexts. This requires you to be inquisitive, open minded and understanding of changing cultural, social and political climates, as well as current practices.
Projects, both self-initiated and selected, are developed to challenge current design principles and extend the context of visual communications through the development of traditional and new skills.
Contents
Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.
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* Exploration and Innovation
* Exploration and Innovation
Through a range of innovative projects, you will explore themes stimulating investigation of new areas of practice, both creatively and technically. You will:
* further develop your critical understanding of different approaches to the creative process within your particular discipline, whether it is Illustration, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Animation, Drawing or Interactive Design; and
* begin developing an innovative body of work for inclusion in your portfolio which reflects your creative ambitions.
* Visualising Ideas
* Visualising Ideas
Building on the Exploration and Innovation module, you will begin work on more complex projects. Both set and self-initiated, these projects:
* will stretch your individual ability and maximise your creative potential;
* may be individually driven or undertaken with colleagues from within your own or other disciplines, depending on your projects' content, audience and final resolution; and
* will allow you to challenge established practice and build on your own creative values through personal development planning.
Once again, you will be expected to finish selected projects to a high standard for inclusion in your portfolio.
* Building Interdisciplinary Practice
* Building Interdisciplinary Practice
Responding to the changes and new demands of the creative industries, this modules focuses on your team-working skills. External advisors from industry will set and review ambitious projects which:
* may be large and complex;
* will involve high-levels of creativity; and
* will test and develop your ability to negotiate, manage and co-ordinate your own and your colleagues' work to bring projects to a successful conclusion.
You will re-present work in the context of your portfolio, making your own contribution clear. You will also have the opportunity to develop an understanding of your career opportunities, build networks and cultivate professional practice.
* Practice Research Project
* Practice Research Project
You undertake two substantial projects during this module, based around an issue which needs to be communicated to a group or an identified 'window of opportunity'.
Normally one brief will be set and the other self-initiated, although both will encourage questioning. The set brief will be open to negotiation, rewriting or re-positioning. The second, self-initiated brief encourages independence and should be born out of autonomous research and reflection upon reading interests or concerns. It could also be an extension of a subject which has already been touched upon during earlier projects.
In the development of projects you will research and liaise with outside agencies as appropriate. Most importantly, the self-initiated part of this module acts as a fore-runner to the final 'Major Project' - the success of these projects will indicate the appropriateness and readiness for the next stage, completion of the Major Practice Research Project.
* Major Practice Research Projects
* Major Practice Research Projects
This module is the culmination of your creative development. You produce a substantial and original portfolio of work in response to a student-generated self-initiated brief. It requires:
* evidence of the designer's responsibility to client and audience; and
* the production of a 3,000-word report to accompany the creative work and supporting portfolio - this will document the research undertaken and the philosophy that has determined the design conclusion.
Agreement of this project will be through a written proposal and tutorial discussions.
* Future Focus: Creative Industry Brief
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Applicants should have a good BA(Hons) degree or equivalent qualifications or experience, including those of a professional or vocational nature, in a related subject such as Graphic Design, Illustration, Architecture, 3 Dimensional Design, Animation, Interactive Design, Filmmaking. We also welcome applicants with relevant professional experience.
All qualified applicants are invited for interview where they are expected to demonstrate:
* a high level of art and design skills and related aptitude - through a portfolio submission;
* an understanding of and commitment to the subject; and
* an ability to deal with the written and spoken word in English.
All applicants must supply a portfolio of work demonstrating that they have the necessary skills.
International students
Applications from international students with relevant qualifications, to include a 6.5 IELTS score with a minimum of 6 in each category, are welcome.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
Accreditation
Many of the courses that we run are accredited and recognised by relevant professional bodies within their respective fields. As part of our commitment to providing quality, relevant courses we seek accreditation and recognition wherever possible. In fact the Higher Education Funding Council of England awarded us a quality rating for 'Excellence in teaching'.
Kingston Business School is also one of an elite number of UK business schools with Association of MBA accreditation of our MBA courses. Plus we have received EPAS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development for several of our postgraduate and undergraduate business programmes; only the second UK business school to receive this accreditation.
To view a full list of our accreditations, please visit our website.
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