Study modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The course enables students from a variety of backgrounds to develop their understanding of the visual culture of classical antiquity; combines iconographical, theoretical and cultural approaches to a wide range of visual material to examine both its functions and resonances in antiquity and its restoration, decontextualisation and reinvention in the modern world.(read more)
Study modes: Full time
Course description: Research areas include: Film and TV; fine art; design and ephemera; cyberspace and photography.(read more)
Study modes: Full time
Course description: The course appeals to students who possess a sound understanding of the subject and have developed a clear idea of a research topic within the field of visual culture.(read more)
Study modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The course combines an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary American studies approach with a focus on the analysis of various aspects of American visual culture; it provides training in research skills, an introduction to representative American Studies approaches, and an examination of contemporary American culture.(read more)
Study modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The programme offers students the opportunity to follow 1 of 3 pathways in art history and visual Culture; these pathways are: Master's in Art History: renaissance to the present day; modern art; criticism and display; Master's in Visual Culture: art, photography and film; students choose a pathway according to their personal interests in art history and visual culture; they work towards their dissertation throughout their Master's pathway.(read more)
Study modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The programme allows students to follow 1 of 3 pathways; students choose a pathway according to their personal interests in art history and visual culture; students work towards their dissertation throughout the MA pathway; the Master's is supported by the Nottingham Institute for Research in Visual Culture.(read more)
Study modes: Full time
Course description: The programme appeals to students who possess a sound understanding of the subject and have developed a clear idea for a research topic; the ultimate aim is to produce an original 30,000-word dissertation; the course includes 2 key elements to help students develop key analytical and research skills, and to help introduce them to the wider postgraduate community.(read more)
Study modes: Full time
Course description: Research interests include: gender, sexuality and the body; 18th and 19th century Irish art; surrealism and photography; British landscape and its imagery; 17th and 18th century; art and travel (especially Italian); visual culture of the French Revolution; drawing and modern culture.(read more)
Study modes: Full time
Course description: A specialist postgraduate study enabling the further development of a personal illustration style through encouraging experimentation and exploration of innovation within image-making and visual thinking; core skills developed: research methodologies; contextualisation of the student's work both professionally and culturally; practical project experimentation; critical and reflective evaluation.(read more)
Study modes: Full time
Course description: Students have a 12-month period to produce a final exhibition, project, performance, installation or commission; this must be fully documented and accompanied by a statement setting out the candidate’s view of the nature and significance of the work.(read more)
Study modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Supervision is available in the following areas: Performance and live art; fine art (includes painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, moving image, multimedia and site-specific practice); fashion map (concerned with the mapping of forces in consumer and cultural trends in high street fashion); interior architecture (architectural design education, theory and practice.(read more)
Study modes: Full time
Course description: The course encompasses: Painting; drawing; sculpture; installation; printmaking; photography; new technologies and moving image (video and film).(read more)
Study modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Supervision is available in the following areas: Performance and live art; fine art (includes painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, moving image, multimedia and site-specific practice); fashion map (concerned with the mapping of forces in consumer and cultural trends in high street fashion); interior architecture (architectural design education, theory and practice.(read more)
Art and Design PhD
Nottingham Trent University
Catherine, June 2010Overall score
Take all the opportunities offered even if you are not sure if you understand or even if you think its really you give everything a chance and sometimes be prepered for stuff to go over your head. Don't be put off keep going.
Study experience
Start right from the begining by keeping notes, use the library not just to meet your friends but read, read, read.
Facilities
The library is excellent, I love it, the computers are there if you want them, the sports facillities are brill.
Postgraduate life
We have a social club in our PhD office which organises meetings, get togethers, bbqs, etc.
Job prospects
I'm already doing a PhD. I mean to use this to get me a research position
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