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Details: 4 - 6 years part time course.
Course fees: Not known.
Course description: Students register either for research based on studio practice and a written element, or for research by written thesis only. (read more)
Course venue: Goldsmiths, University of London, SE14 6NW
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: The Professional Development in Arts Practice MA provides an opportunity for post-graduate study in the fine and applied arts. (read more)
Course venue: Liverpool John Moores University, L1 2TZ
Details: 2 years full time course.
Course fees: Fees are subject to change and you are advised to contact the provider before commencing the course.
Course description: This course covers a thesis and an examination at the end of the course. (read more)
Course venue: Oxford University, OX1 2JD
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: This degree deals with all aspects of art in ancient societies, focusing especially on function and meaning in ancient societies and the methods necessary to study ancient art. (read more)
Course venue: University of Reading, RG6 6AH
Details: 5 years (maximum) part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: This course provides a broad based learning experience in production skills and technical knowledge, but also provides a wider curriculum for students who wish to aesthetics based course. (read more)
Course venue: Staffordshire University, ST4 2DE
Details: 2 years full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change and applicants are advised to check with the provider before enrolling.
Course description: Students engage in a sequence of weekly seminars and workshops focussing on contemporary ideas within art and graphics. (read more)
Course venue: Leeds Metropolitan University, LS1 3HE
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: £6,000
Course venue: Cavendish College, WC1E 7DP
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: The course accommodates students with a wide range of practices including site specific and environmentally based work. (read more)
Course venue: University of East London, E16 2RD
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Home/ EU students: full time fee £3,300 (2008/09 provisional)
Course venue: University of York, YO10 5DD
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change and applicants are advised to check with the provider before enrolling.
Course description: Course is designed to both facilitate existing creative businesses and to support start-up in a structured, supportive and appropriate specialist environment. (read more)
Course venue: Leeds Metropolitan University, LS1 3HE
Details: 2-5 years part time course.
Course fees: Not known.
Course description: The course enables students to deepen their understanding of the contexts of the arts in other sectors such as: Education. (read more)
Course venue: Goldsmiths, University of London, SE14 6NW
Details: 3 years part time course.
Course fees: Not known
Course description: This course comprises six modules: Drawing, Environment, Creative Processes, Methods of Educational Research, Contemporary Issues in Education, and The Arts in Education. (read more)
Course venue: Glasgow School of Art (The), G3 6RQ
Details: 1 year full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: The coursel investigates how christian scripture, beliefs and practices have found expression in the arts over 2000 years: tracing the idea of beauty in western theological tradition. (read more)
Course venue: Kings College London, SE1 8TX
Details: 2 - 3 years part time day course.
Course fees: Fees are reviewed annually.
Course description: The MBA will explore today’s arts and culture issues in depth, and develop the management skills to strengthen your performance within the wider context of arts management issues in Wales, the UK and beyond. (read more)
Course venue: School Of Creative Arts And Humanities, Carmathen, SA31 3EP
Details: 1-3 years full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change and you are advised to check the current details with the course provider before enrolling on this course.
Course description: Modules: students study the theory into practice module or the case study, plus the design analysis module. (read more)
Course venue: University Campus Suffolk, IP4 1QJ
Details: 2-3 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change and you are advised to check the current details with the course provider before enrolling on this course
Course description: Modules include: Architectural conservation. (read more)
Course venue: De Montfort University, LE1 9BH
Details: 2 years full time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course venue: University of Wolverhampton, WV3 9DX
Details: 4-6 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: Research in the Department of Fine Art is the sum of the practice of the Artists within it and its policy is to maintain a range of activity indicative of contemporary concerns. (read more)
Course venue: University of Reading, RG6 6AH
Details: 2 years part time course.
Course fees: Not known.
Course description: Programme is assessed primarily by a dissertation, with complementary courses in research methods. (read more)
Course venue: Goldsmiths, University of London, SE14 6NW
Details: 4-6 years part time course.
Course fees: Course fees are subject to change, and you are advised to check current details with the course provider.
Course description: Research areas include: Critical Spaces aims to enable dialogue across boundaries of research fields and methodologies in contributing to critical understandings of culture and society. (read more)
Course venue: University of Plymouth, PL4 8AA
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Overall score
I had completed an undergraduate Art History degree before enrolling in the masters in Fine and Decorative Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London. I found that the standard was significantly lower than what I had experienced at university in that the majority of students did not come from a strong background in art history. Many were communication majors, English, business or even science- basically any graduates who desired a "career change". In fact, in order to gain entry into the course you need 1) a degree (any kind) and 2) close to 20,000 pounds. As a result most lacked sound analytical and research skills.
Study experience
The lectures were very much targeted towards people who had no background of art history and could be compared with first year level university lectures. Contrary to all university masters degrees in art history however, there was no mandatory reading as the philosophy of the course is centered upon "object-based learning". However, this approach to art history when not supported by the study of an object's historical, aesthetic, cultural and political contexts is fairly useless. The course also claims to focus on techniques and materials, and while there is certainly value in learning from this perspective the course does not in the end teach you much more than how to identify a few different woods and that tempera paint dries at a faster rate than oil paint.
Facilities
The Institute is small and limited, not that well set up for students. The library was small and you had to rely on the Art Library at the V&A and the British Library for most of your research. There are not enough computers.
Postgraduate life
No postgraduate life really. Close friends keep in touch.
Job prospects
It claims to prepare you for auction house careers and other commercial art careers. Sotheby's auction house reserves (in 2008-09) 30 places for students (in all departments not just Fine and Decorative Art) to work as interns for 3 months, full time (including lots of overtime) and unpaid (transport and lunch expenses are not covered). This significantly narrows down the amount of people who are able to apply as only a minority can afford to live in London unpaid for 3 months with no guarantee of a job at the end (paid positions come up very seldom) and then if you are an international student (of which most in the course are) there is the additional problem of visas. While the course and the internship does certainly give you a decent chance to land yourself a paid full time job in the commercial art sector, the whole endeavour is expensive and quite frankly commercial art professionals, such as auction house experts, do not earn substantial amounts contrary to popular belief (you will earn more being an art history professor). Of the students in my class those who could afford to do the internship did, those who couldn't looked for months for paid work in the arts and most did not succeed (there are simply more people searching for jobs than there are jobs in the arts) and ended up in retail or administration in order to survive. Others simply changed career paths and pursued other goals.
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History of Art MA (Hons)
University Of Aberdeen
Lottie, February 2008Overall score
Better now I'm in 3rd year. Definitely a good experience. Would be better if I didn't have to have a job. Advice: Get involved!!
Study experience
Great-harder now but really interesting. 8 hours a week. Go to lectures-makes exams easier. Poor facilities!
Facilities
Poor!! New one will be good. Poor sports too- new one will be good!!
Postgraduate life
Yes lots-great variation. On student radio and student charities campaign.
Job prospects
Travel-work in London-gallery work?-not sure. Not worried yet!
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Art Business MA
Sotheby's Institute Of Art
Lori, April 2008Overall score
Yes- very organised
Study experience
Helpful lecturers
Good courses
Facilities
good library
not enough PCs
no sport facilities
Postgraduate life
there was none
Job prospects
opens alot of doors in the art martket
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