Design (with Optional Professional Placement) MA / PgDip / PgCert

Why Study this Programme?

Our strong industry links and the opportunity to spend an additional year in industry gives this course a competitive edge and ensures that future employers will sit up and take notice of you. The design and fashion arena are filled with opportunity and this course allows you to tailor your postgraduate to fit into your own interests, strengths and ambitions within today’s industry.

Our focus is very much about you and what you would like do in the future, this allows us to direct and advise you and provide a framework for you to create a personal, diverse and exciting portfolio tailored to your chosen career path.

During the course you will engage with a broad range of Design projects and creative activities. You will be taught by our specialist academic team of design professionals along with an array of guest lecturers.

Learning Environment and Assessment

The MA Design (with optional Professional Placement) is tailored to the individual student using a Learning Agreement which defines the student’s personal framework of study. Each student will negotiate and develop their own personal direction written in the form of a Learning Agreement, which will define the project, rationale, areas of research and intended outcomes.

Opportunities

Graduates pursue successful careers within a wide range of design related disciplines, including Designer/Maker, Freelance or In-house Designer for manufacturing, Modeller, Animation Artist, Teacher, Design Buyer, Set, Display or Exhibition Designer, Gallery or Exhibition Curator, Design Manager to name a few. You will also gain PGCert and PGDip awards in this course.