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Full time | Cambridge Campus | 1 year | SEP-25

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

SEP-25

Key information
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Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Graphic Design

Course Summary

Discover how visual communication can be a powerful force for change. Enrich and advance your skills in graphic design research, process, and practice, and learn how to use them to change people’s lives for the better. MA Graphic Design is unique in evolving your design practice while exploring and developing your role as a creative designer who wants to effect social change.This could include issues such as behavioural and perspectival change, community cohesion, integration and diversity, and environmental challenges.Whatever your background, you will advance your visual practice in the key areas of design, including research, textuality, materiality, concept development, visual communication, and typo/graphic innovation – leading to a more individualised, more coherent, and more competitive professional portfolio.You'll augment this with more advanced knowledge of the complexities of socio-environmental problems, gaining insight into institutional and government structures, learning how to collaborate effectively, and rethinking how creative project development and management can play a central role in society. This will enable you to gain the confidence to progress your career as a graphic designer, and take an active creative role in social and environmental change-making processes.Studying in our dedicated studios at Cambridge School of Art and at project locations, much of your work will be practice-based. You will take part in live projects, work with an external partner and students from related Masters degrees, as well as proposing and undertaking your own self-directed projects.Throughout the course you will collaborate and discuss your work with staff, external partners, visiting professionals, and fellow students, giving you an invaluable opportunity to see how others respond to it. All our teaching team are practising designers, design researchers, and artists, so you will hear about the latest news and issues in the industry, as well as getting access to sound careers advice.

Modules

This module will introduce you to a range of core research methods in the creative and visual arts, and examines the implications of considering practice as research within art and design disciplines. You will explore the interaction of critical theory and studio practice within art and design, and the relationships between scholarship, reflective analysis and creative impulse. You will also address the distinctive character of research in the visual arts, and consider the concepts of practice-based research and practice-led research through a range of exemplars from different art and design disciplines. You will examine a range of different research approaches within the visual arts and across the broader field of the arts, humanities and sciences. This wide-ranging enquiry is designed to assist and inform your conception, development and documentation of creative projects, and to provide a ?toolkit? of research methods for both your practice and critical work.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£9,300

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£18,600

Entry requirements

Students need to have a good honours degree (or equivalent), normally in a related subject. Students with professional experience are also encouraged to apply.

University information

Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) offers gold standard teaching (Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), 2023) and expert tuition across more than 100 flexible postgraduate degrees, making it a great option for students looking to deepen their academic and industrial knowledge of a subject. ARU’s hosts four campuses in East Anglia: Cambridge, Chelmsford and Peterborough and Writtle. A partnership with ARU London provides an additional opportunity...more

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