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Art in Public MA
University Of UlsterStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The course provides artists and cultural practitioners with the opportunity to develop their practice and a critical understanding of art in public; programme supports students in developing public projects that take place in civil society primarily beyond the gallery structure.(read more)
Art PhD
Oxford Brookes UniversityStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Supervision is available for research in the following main areas: Contemporary art; aesthetics; 20th-century British art; contextual art practices; post-colonialism, globalisation and photographic theory; social sculpture/art and social processes; sound technology and performance; text and context.(read more)
Art and Design (Practice) PhD
University Of HertfordshireStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Research areas include: The ways in which practice advances knowledge; the relationship of theory to practice in art and design; the role of the object in knowledge creation; the relationship between knowledge and interpretation; taxonomies of knowledge and their embodiment in practice.(read more)
Theorising Visual Art and Design (tVAD) MA (Res)
University Of HertfordshireStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Research areas include: Contemporary practice, criticism and histories of art, design and the applied arts; practice-based research and the role of the artefact; aesthetics and philosophical issues in art and design; space, gender and visual culture; design and material culture in the 20th century.(read more)
Arts Psychotherapies and Counselling in Health MSc (Res)
University Of HertfordshireStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Opportunities up to doctoral level include: Therapeutic counselling intervention and process; arts therapies with children; dance movement and other arts therapeutic interventions for those presenting with conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/ME; palliative care; mental health; psychosomatic illness; development and evaluation of arts therapies and therapeutic counselling interventions; Group approaches to psychotherapy.(read more)
Special Effects MA
University Of HertfordshireStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: A pathway on the postgraduate media programme; on this pathway the primary concern is with the synthesis of digital and real-world technologies at the forefront of special effects practices; the course focuses on the knowledge and critical discernment needed to exploit the potential of effects effectively.(read more)
Arts Psychotherapies and Counselling in Health PhD
University Of HertfordshireStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Opportunities up to doctoral level include: Therapeutic counselling intervention and process; arts therapies with children; dance movement and other arts therapeutic interventions for those presenting with conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/ME; palliative care; mental health; psychosomatic illness; development and evaluation of arts therapies and therapeutic counselling interventions; Group approaches to psychotherapy.(read more)
Art PhD
University Of SouthamptonStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Students are engaged in a variety of practice-led research projects, supervised by academic specialists in their fields; they are part of a lively research culture and have the opportunity to work in a range of related or complementary research disciplines, on site and across the University.(read more)
Early Modern Studies MLitt
University Of AberdeenStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Modules include: Early modern Catholicism; reformations and recusants; Renaissance cultures; Scots and Irish in India, c.1650-1800; the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, c.(read more)
Information Management in the Cultural Sector MSc
City University LondonStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The course forms part of the postgraduate Information Studies Scheme.(read more)
Drawing PhD
Loughborough UniversityStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Specific interests of the drawing research group: Drawing practice in art and design; drawing as a means of communication; drawing as a visual language; process and cognition in drawing practice; nature and role of strategic knowledge in drawing practice; relationship of drawing to other art and design forms; drawing and new technology.(read more)
Design and Technology Education PgCert
University Of StrathclydeStudy modes: Part time evening
Course description: This course is for teachers and other professionals who wish to pursue a programme of continuing professional development tailored to their needs; it is of interest to primary and secondary teachers: home economics; technical education specialists; and related disciplines such as art and design; as well as local authority advisers/education development officers and enterprise coordinators.(read more)
Theatre and Media for Development MA
University Of WinchesterStudy modes: Full time
Course description: Theatre and media for development at Winchester integrates community theatre and media practices with aspects of development studies; whilst offering frameworks of communication through which specific groups and communities can further their self-development.(read more)
Fine Art MA
University Of ChichesterStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The course is a broad, studio-based programme with an open and inclusive approach to fine art practice; the programme encourages both specialist and cross-disciplinary approaches enabling students to extend and deepen their knowledge and application of fine art practice.(read more)
Art History and Theory with English for Academic Purposes Diploma
University Of EssexStudy modes: Full time
Course description: This course is designed for those who need to improve their language and study skills and their subject knowledge in art history and theory before going on to a Master's programme; successful completion of the graduate diploma at the required level will normally qualify students for entry to an appropriate Master's level programme in the department of art history and theory.(read more)
Art History and Theory (Modern and Contemporary Art and Theory) MA
University Of EssexStudy modes:
Course description: This course covers a wide subject area with a special focus on modern and contemporary art and theory; modules tackel issues in the context of a close study of art from 1960 to the present.(read more)
Art in Public PgDip
University Of UlsterStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The course provides artists and cultural practitioners with the opportunity to develop their practice and a critical understanding of art in public; programme supports students in developing public projects that take place in civil society primarily beyond the gallery structure.(read more)
Art History and Theory (Lens-Based Media: Film, Photography, Video) MA
University Of EssexStudy modes:
Course description: This course covers a wide subject area with a special focus on lens-based media; modules encourage a specific approach to film which takes account of its close relationship with other visual arts; independent and experimental films are also explored.(read more)
Mechanical Engineering PhD
Loughborough UniversityStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Staff research areas include: Textile engineering; stress analysis; engineering dynamics; robotics and control; fatigue and creep; optical information processing; business management, quality assurance; thermodynamics; laser technology; microprocessor applications; mechatronics; heat transfer; machine vision; machinery design; radioactive heat transfer; optical metrology; design of high-speed machinery; laser safety; holography.(read more)
Art and Design (Practice) MPhil
University Of HertfordshireStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Research areas include: The ways in which practice advances knowledge; the relationship of theory to practice in art and design; the role of the object in knowledge creation; the relationship between knowledge and interpretation; taxonomies of knowledge and their embodiment in practice.(read more)
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Design (Textile Design) MA
University College Falmouth
Julliet, March 2010Overall score
Thoroughly enjoyed my year on the MA Design at Falmouth. I think of the experience as therapy in a luxery hotel. I loved being questioned on my designs and pushed further to see how far they could go.
Study experience
I liked the set up of the course and found most the lectures relevant. I would have enjoyed more textile concentrate but a year goes by so fast and before you know it we were out.
Facilities
Top notch facilities. Wish I had had more time to play with all the toys.
Postgraduate life
With a family I did not get much of a chance to experience postgrad afterlife. It may have been there but I did not look for it. I did enjoy the family related entertainment in Falmouth. Hard to keep up with the many festivals.
Job prospects
Is there prospects for any jobs at this time? This degree has enabled me to teach in a field that I am passionate about but as far as working within the textile design field, not so easy.
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I took the course and it is not worth it
Fine and Decorative Art PgDip/MA
Sotheby's Institute Of Art
Anon, February 2010Overall 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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What a Mess
History Of Art And Architectural History Ma (Hons)
University Of Edinburgh
Rory, March 2007Overall score
I did not enjoy it. There were good and bad bits, but in the long run my time at Edinburgh uni did not help me. The City of Edinburgh could not be bettered in terms of culture, people, interesting places to visit etc. The teaching at the University of Edinburgh in the arts courses however is in need of serious improvement. Most important piece of advice for students is if you went to a boarding school before this, do not do an arts course at edinburgh uni.
Study experience
Dismal. Not enough contact hours, unrealistic emphasis on independent working, and teachers low on communication skills. My conclusion on this, which took me three years to discover, was that university teaching is not a high priority for lecturers, and that they care more about getting papers published and doing their own research. This is fair enough, the university gets funding according how many publications they can produce. Lecturers want to keep their jobs. For the students though, this is an unrewarding environment, with little feedback and little pastoral support, and if you are not attracted by the image of the lonely researcher beware.
Facilities
This is a hard question to answer because the facilities at my previous school were so good. Not enough computers or books around exam/essay time, but this problem is being addressed by the library staff at the moment. The central library itself is a poor working environment, the one in aberdeen is much nicer. Ours is a 60's monstrosity that people sometimes confuse with a car park. That said, lots of nice little places to work if you know where to find them.
Postgraduate life
Yes, the clubs are good. I joined a club called Nomad and we produced a travel & photography magazine together for a couple of years. From this I made some of the best friends I've made at uni, and this has led on to the best experiences. I also tried canoe club, hillwalking club, life drawing and others. It depends on the group and what you're into- some attempts go further than others. I thought I would join a sports club like I had done at school, but I found there to be not much available between semi-professional standard and kickabout in the park standard.
Job prospects
I wasn't really thinking in terms of job prospects. A lot people I know go on to change direction significantly after uni, so I didn't worry too much about it. I think though that art history students generally do well, and there is a thriving heritage industry for architectural history graduates. The uni has a solid reputation.
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