Postgraduate Directory 2007/2008

CHICHESTER U. Fine Art The focus of this MA route will be on practice-based Fine Art research (painting, sculpture, textiles, printmaking, new media arts etc), and also offers the opportunity for cross discipline collaboration. The MA encourages individual arts practice, offers an introduction to research methods in the arts, provides opportunities to engage with new media and technologies or to pursue traditional ones, and allows for single discipline or interdisciplinary practice-based arts research projects (by collaboration) involving choreography, performance, music composition and performance. MA 12FT 24PT over 20 NS over 40 CS 18 CH Tim Sanys-Renton t 01243 816199 e t.sandys-renton@chi.ac.uk w www.chiuni.ac.uk ARTS FINA Art and Design TAUGHT COURSES Art and Design COVENTRY U. Automotive Design The course aims to provide students with the skills and understanding required of a creative designer in the automotive industry. There is opportunity to apply advanced CAD techniques to automotive design projects as well as traditional drawing and clay sculpting. Students are expected to achieve professional standards and develop a major practical automotive design project. MA 15FT 30PT Brian Clough t 0024 7688 8248 e afuture.ad@.coventry.ac.uk w www.coventry.ac.uk DESI INDT AUTD UCREATIVE Animation This course has particular strengths in supporting narrative/ non-narrative practices, animated documentary, interdisciplinary approaches to the animated form and digital/new media theory. Underpinning these areas of study is the exploration of meaning construction within the animated ﬁlm. Experimentation with traditional and non-traditional animated ﬁction strategies and with modes of nonﬁction animation will be expected and encouraged. There will be no limitation to the animation techniques you can employ and you should possess a high degree of practical ability and technical competence within animation and your proposed project area. MA 12FT 24PT 0-5 NS 0-10 CS Admissions t 01252 722441 e admissions@ucreative.ac.uk w www.ucreative.ac.uk CAPP ARTD Contemporary Crafts (Textiles) This course is constructed around the development of individual research in relation to textile culture, craft and design. You will have a ﬁrst degree or equivalent professional experience of textiles, and a strong sense of the personal project you wish to develop. Our course will encourage and support the process of exploration, interrogation, transformation and resolution through tutorial guidance, peer support, critical reﬂection and consideration of place within a community of textiles practice. MA 12FT 24PT Admissions t 01252 722441 e admissions@ucreative.ac.uk w www.ucreative.ac.uk ARTS GN.. Automotive Journalism The course draws on our established links within the ﬁelds of print and broadcast journalism, and automative design. It will enable you to develop a core of journalistic skills and knowledge which are generic requirements of the profession, together with a speciﬁc ﬁeld of expertise, the automotive industry. MA 12FT 24PT PGDip 12FT 24PT Shaun Hides t 024 7688 7435 e afuture.ad@coventry.ac.uk w www.coventry.ac.uk JOUR GN Creative Enterprise Creativity is a critical issue in today’s business environment. As the globalisation of markets continues and competition increases, the value of creativity in generating signiﬁcant competitive advantage has become clear. The MA in Creative Enterprise is designed to provide you with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge required to start up, develop and manage organisations that have creativity and innovation at their core. MA 12FT Admissions t 01252 722441 e admissions@ucreative.ac.uk w www.ucreative.ac.uk ARTS GN.. Secondary Design and Technology The programme is 38 weeks long with 70% of this time spent in schools. You will have training placements in two partner schools and complete a week’s training in a Key Stage two school. This experience provides you with the opportunity to work alongside serving teachers, learning about the broader roles and skills of teachers and other school staff. High quality teaching, support and guidance will be provided by mentor teachers in schools and by staff from the university. PGCE (QTS) 9.5FT 11-20 NS 11-20 CS 40 CH Alison Godbold t agodbold@brunepark.hants.sch.uk e agodbold@brunepark.hants.sch.uk w www.chiuni.ac.uk EDUT GN EDUT SECO TECH EDUT Artists’ Film, Video and Photography This postgraduate course builds upon the strong history of ﬁlm, video and photography at Maidstone, retaining the ethos of its origins in ﬁne art and experimental cinema. Aimed at innovative practitioners from a broad range of backgrounds, the course offers a unique environment where the boundaries between the artistic disciplines of video, ﬁlm, animation, sound and photography are dissolved in favour of inventive alliances. Conﬁgured as an interdisciplinary arts laboratory, the course offers an exciting opportunity for you to work from the depth of your discipline, while investigating the interfaces between site, screen and time-based work. MA 16FT Admissions t 01252 722441 e admissions@ucreative.ac.uk w www.ucreative.ac.uk FILT VIDF PHOT Contemporary Crafts This postgraduate course offers the opportunity to extend and challenge your crafts practice across a range of media. Within the disciplines of textiles, ceramics, metalwork and jewellery, you will explore your practice against cross-contextual reading and analysis. MA 12FT 24PT PGCert 3FT 6PT PGDip 6FT 18PT Mandy Havers t 024 7688 8248 e afuture.ad@coventry.ac.uk w www.coventry.ac.uk CRAF Curating Contemporary Craft This is the ﬁrst postgraduate degree of its kind, both in the UK and internationally, and will provide speciﬁc contextual and historic analysis of the UK crafts industry. This course will establish the particular background to craft curatorship, using as its touchstone the unique and nationally important collections of the Crafts Study Centre at Farnham. MA 12FT Admissions t 01252 722441 e admissions@ucreative.ac.uk w www.ucreative.ac.uk ARTS GN.. CHRISTIE’S EDUCATION LONDON Modern and Contemporary Art: 1860 to Present Day The Masters Programme provides an education that will open up pathways into a range of careers in the art world, and can lead to post-graduate study. You will produce written work that ranges from analytical writing to exhibition reviews and curatorial reports. You will be introduced to museum and auction house systems for classifying objects and study different models of museum and gallery display. The thesis takes the form of a proposed exhibition catalogue. Above all, the course aims to stimulate critical awareness, engendering a creative and informed understanding of the art world. MLitt 12FT PGDip 9FT 11-20 NS 11-20 CS 21 CH Susan Lennox t 020 7665 4350 e education@christies.com w www.christies.com/education ARTS HS ARTS GN Contemporary Crafts (Ceramics, Glass, Jewellery) This course provides the opportunity to engage with craft or design practice through the study of ceramics, glass or jewellery. Recognising that practice-based research is based on heightened critical awareness and tacit learning, this course will enable you to creatively exploit the potential of specialist practice within the crafts. An advanced level of technical and skills-based understanding of making is facilitated and developed through problem solving and creative ambiguities. You will be able to articulate and analyse your practice in a rigorous, critical and reﬂective way. MA 12FT 24PT 0-5 NS 0-10 CS Admissions t 01252 722441 e admissions@ucreative.ac.uk w www.ucreative.ac.uk CERP Design and Digital Media This course is designed to provide you with the opportunity to explore and develop the creative possibilities of designing with digital media. Course content includes Visual Language, Interactivity and Reactivity, Design and Digital Media Core, Animation, and a research module. An additional major project module completes the MA degree. MA 12FT 24PT PGDip 6FT 18PT 6-10 NS 0-10 CS Darryl Georgiou t 024 7688 8248 e afuture.ad@coventry.ac.uk w www.coventry.ac.uk DESI INDT DESI DESB DIGD MEDA Design MA Design explores the territory of the 3-dimensional environment providing opportunities for both specialist and interdisciplinary discourse and practical work.The contemporary shift in the focus of design thinking has moved away from a traditional industrial ethos concerned with the progressive production of Fine Art Enables students to advance their personal art practice and develop an understanding of the potential role that ﬁne art and the professional artist can have within a wider social and cultural context. Assessment based on ﬁne art studio work and written study. MA 12FT 8PT PGDip 6FT 18PT 6-10 NS 0-10 CS 3 CH Mandy Havers t 024 7688 8248 e afuture.ad@.coventry.ac.uk w www.coventry.ac.uk ARTS FINA CITY U. Arts Criticism This course covers issues in contemporary arts criticism within the context of the institutional settings in which art and criticism emerge. It considers key themes of art in modernity and provides an introduction to approaches and methodologies of contemporary cultural criticism. The programme has an international perspective. MA 12FT 24-48PT 11-20 CS Admissions Ofﬁcer t 020 7040 8751 e artspol@city.ac.uk w www.city.ac.uk/artspolicy ARTS HS CRIT Media Arts This course has been developed from the successful Design and Digital Media MA, following student demand for a Media Arts route. The course will provide you with the opportunity to explore and develop the creative possibilities of art in new media contexts. Course content includes Visual Language, Interactivity and Reactivity, Media Arts Core, Animation, a Research module, and an additional major project module required for completion of the MA degree. 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