Arts and Design by Independent Project MA

This course is a highly individual course offering you the opportunity to propose and develop your own academic programme in a particular field of craft, design, communication or image-making within a stimulating educational context. A central project forms the core of the course. The project encourages experimentation and innovation in a specific field. You will develop and consolidate your project in consultation with academic staff throughout the course, utilising facilities and drawing on expertise from our other arts and humanities courses, as well as other areas of the university. There is an extensive programme of lectures, events, films, and seminars throughout. We ask you to keep a critical diary during the course and to write a project report at the end of each year. This report is a considered critique of your studio-based work and decision making. Because of the diversity of our students and the projects they create, their professional achievements are equally wide-ranging. Successful commercial enterprises have been established, research degrees undertaken, books published, collaborative design groups formed, and work exhibited in major galleries and institutions. Graduates have also participated in festivals and conferences around the world. Recent graduates include: an art and display technician at the Littlehampton Academy; an associate teaching fellow at the University of Southampton; a book designer at Flukso Design; a designer and associate lecturer at the Open University; an exhibition and graphic designer at Hello Museum; an illustrator at Helen Murphy Freelance Illustration; a lecturer at Norwich University of the Arts and a mobile game designer at TieSense Information Company.