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Art and Design – (M.A.)
University of Bedfordshire
Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies & Science
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,695 - ≈ € 11,290 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Luton / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | February, October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Bedfordshire
This course is open to applicants from a range of art and design disciplines and practices. It provides a distinctive learning experience with an emphasis on both theory and practice, with the aim of questioning previous practice in order to help students develop and establish a robust and focused approach to their work. The course draws on a strong art and design research culture, balanced by a focus on the actual production of art works and design.
You will be encouraged to consider the nature of your creative practice, as well as the ideas and issues that concern you as an artist or designer. We would expect you to be an independent and creative thinker and, with tutorial support, develop a practice that best suits your creative intentions.
Through studio practice, seminars, research and critical writing, you will engage in a contemporary art and design discourse and locate your work in a cultural and critical context, whilst establishing your practice at a professional level. You will need to be able to draw on expertise in critical theory and visual culture, graphic design and illustration, interior design and interior architecture, fine art, photography, video art, fashion, animation and motion graphics.
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Assessment
Assessment is conceived to emanate naturally from the teaching and learning and as such is an intrinsic part of the learning experience. You should, provided you have engaged in the course, be able to meet the demands of formal summative assessment in your stride. The requirements for assessment range through the types listed below.
Since self-directed practical projects are at the heart of learning activities they will logically be the subject of assessment. Formative and summative assessments of practical assignments are seen as an important method of ensuring your understanding, developing relevant cognitive and practical skills and of ensuring personal creative development and progress.
Continuous appraisal by both peer review and your tutors is a feature of the course and although there are no end-point examinations, summative assessment is carried out in relation the work that you produce as part of the course. This will predominantly be based on an accumulation of the work that is done as a result of a research enquiry that is initiated and developed by you engaging in a range of activities as part of its production.
Educational Aims
The course aims for MA Art and Design are:
* To extend your understanding and knowledge of contemporary art and design practice and critical theory with an emphasis on developing a focus for your creative practice through analysis, synthesis and reflection
* To enable you to integrate the learning experience from the taught and self directed aspects of studio-based projects with research from your own specialist art or design discipline
* To engage you in advanced practices, supported by a relevant contemporary critical and theoretical dimension involving the application of critical analysis of your creative practices so that you are able to become a critically autonomous creative practitioner of art or design
* To support you in planning and following through a complex project from inception to presentation involving advanced creative and/or technical solutions, research and practice that can demonstrate a masters-level focus in independent creative thought
* To develop an advanced understanding of current artistic or design practice and help you align your own practice as an artist or designer to current developments
* To apply research methods derived from creative practice to explore new ideas emerging from your work in art and/or design
* To encourage you to attempt an original contribution to your area of practice
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Applicants will be invited to attend an interview and a portfolio of work should be presented for discussion and perusal by the programme team.
A student is exempt from the requirement to have a formal English Language qualification if s/he has studied for a first degree in the English language medium, or has passed one of the following:
* 2 GCE A Levels validated in the UK
* IB Diploma taught in English
* ABE Advanced Diploma
* NCC Advanced Diploma
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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