Postgraduate prospectus 2013 Three Dimensional Design
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This is your very own edition of the UCA Postgraduate Prospectus 2013.
Studying a postgraduate degree at UCA takes your creative career to the next level. This prospectus introduces you to the University, our courses and our campuses at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham and Rochester where our postgraduate courses are based.
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Amit Sheokand, MFA Photography, UCA Farnham The University for the Creative Arts offers an array of specialist courses in art, design, fashion, architecture, graphics, media, communications and arts management across five campuses* in the South East of England.
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*Please note that our postgraduate courses are only offered at four campuses: UCA Canterbury, UCA Epsom, UCA Farnham and UCA Rochester Contents
Welcome 3 Immerse yourself in the creative arts 4 Creative careers 8 A global destination 12 Research reputation 14 Our campus locations 18
Courses Course directory 22 Pre-Sessional English for Art & Design 24 Pre-Masters Graduate Diploma courses 26 Three Dimensional Design courses 30
Life at UCA UCA Farnham 50 UCA Rochester 54
Essential information How to apply 60 Fees and finance: UK/EU students 62 International students 64 Careers and employability 66 Facilities and learning support 68 Accommodation 69 Student life and student support 70 How to find out more 72
2 Contents Welcome
Welcome 3 Studying for a postgraduate at the heart of the creative industries, Immerse yourself in the creative arts 4 qualification at the University for the both in the UK and abroad, including Creative careers 8 Creative Arts will enable you to fashion designer Zandra Rhodes; A global destination 12 develop and realise your ambitions artists Tracey Emin and Tacita Dean; Research reputation 14 for both your life and career. At UCA designers Roger Oates and Martin Our campus locations 18 we are committed to the future, Lambie-Nairn; and Oscar-winning yours and that of society, and have filmmakers and animators Suzie Courses over 150 years of experience in Templeton, Daniel Greaves and Course directory 22 supporting and developing creative Michael Dudok De Wit. Pre-Sessional English for Art & Design 24 arts students. Pre-Masters Graduate Diploma courses 26 This year we awarded an Honorary Three Dimensional Design courses 30 Our campus communities are close Professorship to Sir Terence Conran, to the centre of town and have the whose commitment to craft, industry Life at UCA benefit of fantastic links to London. and creative applications matches UCA Farnham 50 Our courses are internationally the values of the University. UCA Rochester 54 recognised for the development of specialist creative skills and the ways I find the creativity, innovation and talent of our students, staff and Essential information in which they feed directly into the largest areas of the creative alumni inspirational and I invite you How to apply 60 industries, including fashion, design, to be part of our exciting and Fees and finance: UK/EU students 62 digital media, and architecture. challenging creative community. International students 64 Careers and employability 66 We have a long list of successful I look forward to welcoming you to Facilities and learning support 68 alumni who have developed careers the University. Accommodation 69 Student life and student support 70 How to find out more 72 Simon Ofield-Kerr Vice-Chancellor
3 Immerse yourself in the creative arts
UCA is all about exploration. Our unique campus communities allow you the time and space to establish yourself and access the resources to achieve your goals.
4 www.ucreative.ac.uk ‘Creative arts thinking’ applies to your Industry-standard facilities mindset, your skills, your approach, your attitude and your interests towards art and You have access to extensive resources design. At the University for the Creative across our campuses to support all your Arts, our postgraduate courses provide study needs, including: you with professional skills for • Industry-standard pattern cutting centre, employability as well as entrepreneurial Gerber suite and Computer-Aided knowledge and understanding. The Manufacturing studio courses place equal importance on both practical and emotional art and design • Fashion textiles digital printing resource skills, and how you use these tools to • High-end computers loaded with the communicate with the world around you. latest software for animation, Studying at UCA immerses you in a architecture and digital design community dedicated solely to the creative • Extensive photography facilities including arts, living and working alongside 7000 darkrooms, studios and a range of film other students from across the world. The and digital equipment and the breadth of our range of courses can be Hasselblad Research Centre exploited during your postgraduate study. Students can collaborate across courses, • Workshops for ceramics, glass, wood for example in project briefs presenting and metals work to companies across the industry on • Studio spaces and workshops for every scale, from large multi-national to painting, sculpture, fashion and small and local. Courses provide industry filmmaking mentoring and you will have the opportunity to experience working with • Dedicated teams of subject-specific key industry heads and leaders in your technicians chosen field. • Journalism and broadcasting facilities including a TV journalism room with live news feed, a TV studio with viewing gallery and radio suites.
Please note that not all of these facilities are available at every campus – see Life at UCA from page 136 to find out more.
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www.ucreative.ac.uk 5 University libraries • The Digital Library project, delivering reading list content to your desktop The UCA libraries are the most comprehensive visual arts resource in the • The UCA Image Bank, providing digital South East, with library collections from images for course work our 150 year history. In addition to 300,000 • The Library Catalogue, which searches print and digital books, 14,000 print and seamlessly across all digital content and digital journals and over 30,000 DVDs and library stock videos, the libraries also offer: • Online tutorials supporting research and • Subject-specific learning and research referencing practice within the creative support delivered at ‘point of need’ arts • Links to more than 77 specialist • The Visual Arts Data Service, providing databases including image collections, access to a wide variety of image newspaper archives and business data collections and learning resources.
• E-stream, delivering TV recorded www.ucreative.ac.uk/library content to your desktop
6 www.ucreative.ac.uk Galleries and exhibitions European Erasmus or international exchange Our campus galleries host a unique and varied exhibition programme to enrich and You may have the opportunity to spend a engage our own network of creative staff semester on a European Erasmus and students, as well as the wider exchange or an international exchange. community. This experience can positively transform your confidence, interpersonal skills and www.ucreative.ac.uk/galleries career prospects. UCA has links with over 80 partner institutions across Europe and UCA in the community further afield in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Korea, New Zealand and the USA. The University is a key part of our campus towns. Each has its own unique arts www.ucreative.ac.uk/exchange scene. Our staff and students are actively involved in local events and regularly hold exhibitions of work and projects in community places and spaces.
Our thriving public lecture and speaker series also brings a wide range of creative professionals onto campus, providing ample opportunities for networking.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 7 Creative careers
The idea of ‘career’ is evolving, and many people now change direction several times during their working life. A postgraduate creative degree prepares you for the professional world because it not only gives you crucial vocational and entrepreneurial skills, it also equips you with the emotional and communicative art and design skills you will need to be adaptable, self- sufficient and remain relevant in the years ahead.
At a time when the creative industries are growing at twice the rate of the UK economy,the influence of art, design and media in our lives has never been so clearly defined.*
* Nesta 'Creative Clusters and Innovation Report' Nov 2010
8 www.ucreative.ac.uk While there are no guarantees Emotional and communicative that a degree from UCA will lead skills gained from a creative to you landing your dream job, education the evidence is encouraging. • conceptual thinking Careers in world-class organisations are • ability to innovate being filled by former UCA students, with • problem solving the BBC, Gap, Foster+Partners, Ted Baker, • critical analysis and discussion Polo Ralph Lauren UK Ltd., Karen Millen • self-reflection and awareness and Arcadia among the household names • research and development skills. employing graduates from our wide range of courses. By choosing to study with us you are making an investment in your future. Our UCA graduates make a significant teaching staff are closely connected to contribution to the creative economy, their respective industries and each is an particularly in the South East and London active practitioner in their field, ensuring regions. Offering industry-standard that every discipline taught at UCA facilities, UCA has created a unique remains relevant to the sectors it serves. community for postgraduate students where like-minded people share in the Our creative graduates contribute to the creative process and inspire one another. creative economy and experience considerable personal and work As a student at UCA, you will benefit from satisfaction as highlighted in a new exposure to a range of disciplines and be research report Creative Graduates given time to explore your subject and find Creative Futures. The full report is your own style. With such a vibrant, available on the website: specialist learning environment it is no surprise that UCA has produced graduates www.creativegraduates.com who go on to lead in their chosen industry.
Some of the companies associated with our courses are:
Alexander McQueen; Nike; Adidas; Wolff Olins; V&A in London; MAK in Vienna; Vogue; Harper’s Bazaar; Cosmopolitan; FHM; Time Out; The Daily Telegraph; Red or Dead; British Fashion Council; Benetton; Jasper Conran; Aquascutum; D&AD; Futurebrand; BBC; Interbrand; Philips; Kenwood/DeLonghi.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 9 How UCA can help
UCA Careers Service Live briefs The Careers Service provides a range of By inviting leading names to create live innovative services to support you in briefs for you during your course, we can planning your career effectively, including: guarantee that the curriculum is tuned to the needs of the commercial world. Live • Workshops and presentations on briefs are a great opportunity to showcase professional development your talent and build links with potential • One-to-one confidential guidance service employers. at every UCA campus • A dedicated careers library at every Visiting lecturers University-campus Library A steady stream of visiting lecturers from • Up-to-date careers information, graduate across the creative and commercial world vacancies, residencies, competitions and ensures that your learning experience is events on our website enriched with a variety of different perspectives. • Practical business advice and guidance to support new creative enterprises UCA alumni • Ongoing support to graduates for up to three years. The UCA Alumni Association keeps you in touch with the UCA network while you’re studying and once you’ve left, ensuring Work experience / internships you are always an important part of the Undertaking work experience or UCA creative community. internships is a fantastic way to make www.ucreative.ac.uk/alumni contacts in industry and is a great addition to your CV. UCA can assist you with finding a placement opportunity during your course. Our Careers Service offers a wealth of placement opportunities and advice online.
10 www.ucreative.ac.uk UCA graduates
To find out more about what our alumni think and what they have achieved since graduation please visit www.ucreative.ac.uk/alumni-wall
Prescott Perez-Fox Marcelo de Melo
MA Graphic Communication, MA Fine Art, UCA Canterbury UCA Farnham
Summer Hsiao Abhishek Khorgade
MA Fashion Promotion & Imaging, MA Photography, UCA Rochester UCA Epsom
www.ucreative.ac.uk 11 A global destination
Our community of international students represent over 70 different countries. UCA has a wide range of international partnerships and collaborative links worldwide, including joint projects, research activities and staff and student exchanges.
Creative communities Studying in the UK
UCA offers students the chance to study Here are just a few of the reasons why within small specialist campus studying for your creative arts education communities that create a distinctive and in the UK could be best decision you ever supportive educational environment make: essential for developing and nurturing postgraduate level practice. Our free • Art and design students in the UK are English for Academic Purposes classes encouraged to take an experimental and and tutorials ensure you are fully analytical approach to their work and to supported during your study with us. We develop a critical and open-minded view. also offer pre-sessional English courses to This way of thinking produces some of prepare you for postgraduate level study the most unique and highly employable to ensure you meet the required level of graduates in the world English before you commence your • Young British artists and designers are at studies at UCA. the forefront of the world’s creative industries and are constantly creating new ideas that are challenging, individual and expressive
• Be inspired and informed by the art, architecture and history of the UK and nearby European cities
• The UK is a diverse and exciting place to live which will influence your artistic practice in many ways.
12 www.ucreative.ac.uk Our international students benefit hugely from a specialist UK art and design education.
UCA International Alumni After studying MA Photography at UCA, successes Shengyuan Hsu returned to Taiwan where he has worked for a number of high profile Our international students benefit hugely clients including on the campaign trail with from a specialist UK art and design the Mayor of Taiwan and GQ Taiwan. education and many return back to their home countries to start their own Links with industry businesses, work for global companies or continue their own professional practice. UCA has a close proximity to London, with its visiting lecturers and industry Fashion alumnus Burhan Khan from practitioners teaching on our courses and Pakistan set up his own label just a year extensive links with the creative industries after graduating from UCA. His collection based in the capital. You will be taught by has received critical acclaim at London, staff that are practitioners in their field and Barcelona and Pakistan Fashion Week, and you will have the opportunity to talk to the he now balances his time between industry’s creative leaders as part of UCA’s Pakistan and London. lecture programmes. Interior Design graduate Pal Pang was recently awarded the prestigious ‘A’ Design Award in Italy. Pal runs a successful branding, interior and architectural and lighting design company which is based in his native Hong Kong.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 13 Lianna Psarologaki, Research degree student Research reputation
The University for the Creative Arts is recognised internationally for its research and knowledge exchange in art, design, media, communication and architecture.
Much of our research is of an applied fruitful collaborations and partnerships nature. It contributes to meeting with businesses, statuary and voluntary contemporary societal challenges by organisations, and connection to the wider exploring and exploiting the value of public. creativity, imagination, divergent thinking and invention connected to the artistic Building on the success in the 2008 mind set and design ecologies, and Research Assessment Exercise, where through subject-specific and cross- 65% of our research was deemed of disciplinary inquiries. international standing with a substantial number of outputs being rated as UCA’s ability to generate research internationally excellent and world-leading, excellence with societal impact is essential we have continued to consolidate and to being at the leading edge of our expand our research capacity and subjects and professional fields. Through capabilities. Our investment in this core generating unique aesthetic experiences, area of activities drives academic through the production of content and excellence by generating new insights, innovative products (increasingly in digital skills and understanding that inform formats) and through thought-provoking learning and teaching and enhance the cultural interventions we have established student experience.
14 www.ucreative.ac.uk Our research centres The Anglo-Japanese Textile Research Centre was established in 2004. It Five established research centres provide concentrates on the investigation of the significant expertise and facilities in key use of textiles as an expression of cultural areas of creative and intellectual particularity in the UK, Japan and interrogation: increasingly further afield. Extensive connections to international networks The Crafts Study Centre is a fully underpin collaborative and individual accredited museum, safeguarding and research into different approaches to displaying a national collection of modern textile practice, with a particular emphasis and contemporary crafts. It directs and on contemporary languages of making and facilitates research into the history of crafts trans-disciplinary co-productions. in the UK, and hosts international researchers working on the detailed study of particular artefacts drawn from the extensive collections, or on the eminent practitioners using the archives of significant pioneer craftspeople such as Bernhard Leach (ceramics) or Ethel Mairet (textiles). Drawing on a history of over 40 years, the centre has played an important role in publishing studies on craft makers and practices. www.csc.ucreative.ac.uk
Kim Bagley, Research degree student
June Raby, Research degree student
In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, a substantial number of outputs were rated as internationally excellent and world-leading.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 15 Established in 1995, the Centre for Research resources Sustainable Design has engaged in a range of international research projects and The University houses one of the most knowledge exchange initiatives on significant creative arts collections in the ‘product sustainability’ and ‘sustainable UK. Made up of a range of specialist innovation and design’. It offers bespoke repositories that form the cornerstone of services and training to companies, our library, they reflect the institutions’ consultants, governments and academia in cultural heritage spanning from its mid- Europe, North America and Asia, and is 19th century foundations as arts and craft host of the annual international and schools to the current diversity of creative interdisciplinary Sustainable Innovation disciplines. These specialist collections conference series. include artists’ film and videos; artists’ books; rare publications; ceramics and www.cfsd.org.uk glass; textiles and fashion cuttings; design publications; art criticism, in a variety of The Animation Research Centre (ARC), formats; photographs; students’ inaugurated in 2000, hosts a significant sketchbooks; posters; artefacts; books and study collection of independent UK more. animators. Its Pervasive Animation research programme is furthering critical reflections As a specialist education institution for the on the widespread impact of animation on creative arts we have focused our creative the global visual culture across a range of and intellectual infrastructure and research platforms including Sci-tech CG modeling, resources towards innovative practice, architectural design, computer games, production and leadership in the creative distance learning, computer, phone and economy. Resources encompass a web interfaces, and synthespians. substantial range of analogue equipment including printing presses, book presses, www.ucreative.ac.uk/arc screen printing, ceramics and glass workshops with kilns, a foundry, wet Since its inception in 1996, the Visual Arts photography facilities, and dedicated Data Service Research Centre (VADS) has workshop and studio spaces. These are provided the national image repository to complemented by leading edge, industry- support learning, teaching and research standard digital facilities incorporating high across higher and further education spec computing and scanning with sectors and beyond. It holds over 120,000 specialist software, green screening, images on behalf of over 300 collection advanced digital textile printing, Gerber holders drawn from across the arts, art suit, laser cutting and rapid prototyping, education, cultural and heritage sectors. high-spec digital imaging and audio VADS is a research leader in digital asset production and post-production. management including the storage, preservation and usage of digital images and research data and with a particular focus on the creative and performing arts.
www.vads.ac.uk
16 www.ucreative.ac.uk Michelle Jessop, Research degree student
Creative Challenge Doctoral Research Programme
The annual Creative Challenge UCA offers a wealth of opportunities for competition provides a platform and research at doctoral level across the showcase for students, including creative arts disciplines. It enables suitably postgraduates, inviting their creative ideas qualified postgraduate students, as well as and testing the applicability of and inquiry professionals working in the field, to against real world demands. This undertake advanced research in art and pioneering, extra-curricular scheme design, architecture and media. Our launches with a series of initial ideas research students form a vital part of the workshops, followed by mentoring and UCA research culture. face-to-face coaching by entrepreneurs and business leaders in order to enable The research degrees programme offers a students to research, articulate and period of sustained inquiry and analysis situate their ideas. The Creative Challenge and specialist facilities for making culminates in an assessment of the supported by dedicated supervision and submitted concepts and solutions by skills training. An annual student-led senior academic and industry research conference accompanied by an representatives. The competition winners exhibition and publication showcases their are awarded industry and business creative and critical investigations. Support placements and a range of other prizes is available for research students for that support their creative work in the presenting and testing their findings in future. national and international fora. www.ucreative.ac.uk/postgraduate- research
www.ucreative.ac.uk 17 Our campus locations for postgraduate courses
UCA Rochester see page 54 UCA Canterbury UCA Epsom
UCA Farnham see page 50
18 www.ucreative.ac.uk Our campus communities are very important to us. Each one reflects the subject areas studied there, creating unique communities of artists, designers, makers, writers and researchers. You’ll be surrounded by people with the same passions and interests as you.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 19 20 Courses
21 Course directory
This is a listing of all taught postgraduate degrees at UCA. Please note some courses appear in more than one cluster. For up-to-date and more detailed information please go to www.ucreative.ac.uk/courses UCA Canterbury UCA Epsom UCA Farnham UCA Rochester UCA Campus Pre-sessional courses Pre-sessional English for Art & Design* • • • •
Pre-Masters Graduate Diplomas Art & Design Management: Pre-Masters • Graduate Diploma* Art & Design Practice: Pre-Masters Graduate Diploma* •
Architecture Architecture Graduate Diploma (ARB/RIBA Part 2) • Architecture MA • Design for Performance & Events MA • Interior Design MA /MFA •
Art & Design Management Arts Management MA • Creative Industries Management MBA •
Communication Design Book Arts & Production MA /MFA • Design, Innovation & Brand Management MA • Graphic Design & Communication (Professional) MA • Graphic Design MA • Graphic Storytelling & Comic Art MA •
Fashion Fashion MA • Fashion & Lifestyle Journalism MA • Fashion Management & Marketing MA • Fashion Promotion & Imaging MA •
22 www.ucreative.ac.uk UCA Canterbury UCA Epsom UCA Farnham UCA Rochester UCA Campus Film & Media Animation MA /MFA • Photography MA • Photography MA /MFA •
Fine Art Fine Art MA (specialising in Artists’ Film, Video & Photography; Painting; • Printmaking; or Sculpture & Performance) Fine Art MA /MFA •
Three Dimensional Design Contemporary Crafts MA /MFA (Ceramics, Glass, Jewellery) • Contemporary Jewellery MA • Design MA • Sustainable Product Design MA /MFA • Textiles MA /MFA •
Learning & Teaching Learning & Teaching in the Creative Arts PG Certificate • • • •
We also offer MPhil and PhD qualifications in a range of subject areas.
For further information about the areas supported, or our research community and resources, please go online at www.ucreative.ac.uk/research
* the location of this course is subject to change
This information is believed to be correct at the time of publication. The University reserves the right to introduce changes including the addition, withdrawal, relocation or restructuring of programmes.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 23 Pre-sessional English for Art & Design 5 or 10 weeks www.ucreative.ac.uk/pathway
Our pre-sessional English language courses are This course helps you to specifically designed to prepare international • Improve your IELTS* score by 0.5 students to study art and design at a UK or 1.0 university. We offer a range of courses which • Improve your academic English can help to improve your IELTS** score by 0.5 or for art and design 1.0 to enable you to meet the requirement for • Develop specific art and design your main course of study. Pre-sessional English terminology and vocabulary courses are available for all levels of study • Enhance your reading, writing, including pre-degree, undergraduate, pre-masters listening and speaking skills and postgraduate qualifications. • Develop your research skills • Increase your confidence as a Our experienced English for Academic Purposes creative arts student in the UK (EAP) tutors provide a full timetable of tuition • Help improve your critical enquiry and events during the pre-sessional course skills and analysis of both text and which includes 21 hours per week of class time image. and two afternoons per week for independent study. All course content is specifically related to
UCA Canterbury / UCA Epsom / UCA Farnham / UCA Rochester* / UCA Farnham Epsom / UCA Canterbury / UCA UCA art and design to help you develop your vocabulary and improve your critical and theoretical studies.
* the location of the course is subject to change **or equivalent UKBA recognised qualification
24 www.ucreative.ac.uk Pre-sessional English for Art & Design UCA Canterbury / UCA Epsom / UCA Farnham / UCA Rochester* 5 or 10 weeks www.ucreative.ac.uk/pathway
Course content Course details
• Taught academic English and study skills We currently offer five and ten week activities pre-sessional courses which start before the • Practical workshop-based sessions including main course intake. life drawing and printmaking The pre-sessional course fee includes: • Subject-based visiting lecturer programme. • Tuition fee for the pre-sessional course As part of the course, you will visit art galleries, • Accommodation for the pre-sessional course museums and other exhibitions in London and in • Bedding pack the South East. This is a great opportunity for you to visit interesting and important cultural and • Kitchen pack historical sites and put your English into practice! • Educational visits • Airport pick-up service from London Heathrow Already meet the English requirement? or London Gatwick (student only) Even if you already meet the English language • Transport from the pre-sessional course to the requirement for your main programme, you campus of your main course of study. could still benefit from taking a pre-sessional course. Studying for IELTS* is a very different Further information experience to actually taking part in English for For start dates and fees please contact us: art and design courses. By preparing with a pre-sessional course you will have the W www.ucreative.ac.uk/pathway opportunity to familiarise yourself with the T +44 (0)1252 892838 creative language which will be used on your E [email protected] main course. You’ll also have time to settle in at the University, make friends and adjust to life in the UK before your main course starts.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 25 Art & Design Management Pre-Masters Graduate Diploma January 2013 start: 30 weeks full-time UCA Epsom* UCA September 2013 start: Duration to be confirmed www.ucreative.ac.uk/pre-masters-management
This Graduate Diploma course prepares you for Stage 1 studying art and design management subjects at Study units include research Masters level in the UK, in particular Arts methods, critical analysis and Management; Fashion Management & English for academic purposes. You Marketing; Design, Innovation & Brand will learn about the management of Management; and MBA Creative Industries creativity in a wider social, Management. This course is designed for economic and cultural context. You are also introduced to the specifics students who have previously studied outside of creative management relevant to of the EU. the creative industries and creative functions within commercial or The Graduate Diploma will also develop your social enterprises through visiting English language, academic, research and study industry leaders and practitioners. skills, as well as your critical and analytical Stage 2 abilities in relation to your chosen area of interest. You will learn how creativity is managed through the analysis of During the course you will develop your existing business models and case knowledge of visual and cultural contexts studies. alongside the development of your area of This stage will see you working subject expertise. Additionally, you learn about with other students to effectively British culture, public arts institutions and manage a creative development studying a range of current cultural and project. This stage also covers essential skills required for theoretical debates in the visual arts. academic study at a higher level and will increase your overall All students who successfully complete the academic English proficiency. Pre-Masters Diploma and progress to UCA postgraduate degree level courses will be automatically eligible for a £1,000 fee waiver.**
* the location of this course is subject to change ** Fee waiver only applies to students from outside of the EU
26 www.ucreative.ac.uk UCA Epsom* Art & Design Management Pre-Masters Graduate Diploma January 2013 start: 30 weeks full-time September 2013 start: Duration to be confirmed www.ucreative.ac.uk/pre-masters-management
Industry experience Careers
This course has extensive links with industry Career opportunities vary depending on the area professionals through the visiting lecture and of the creative industries you choose to focus on seminar programmes. As well as having links but graduates develop careers as design or brand with various creative and commercial enterprises managers, creative directors, project managers, for employment and work experience links and consultants, client account handlers as well as network building. continuing to Masters-level degree study.
How this course is taught Typical entrance requirements
You are taught through tutorials, lectures, • A recognised Honours degree or equivalent seminars and workshops. Assessment methods • Minimum IELTS 5.0 or equivalent (with a will range from group presentations, essay minimum of 4.5 in each element) workshops, tutorials and formative critiques. • Minimum IELTS 5.5 or equivalent (with a Class hours include 21 hours per week minimum minimum of 5.0 in each element) if progressing teaching with a student staff ratio of 15:1. to MBA Creative Industries Management
How this course is assessed Contact our International Enquiries service You are assessed on evidence of your knowledge, understanding through application of W www.ucreative.ac.uk/pathway ideas, research and methodological approach T +44 (0)1252 892838 and your technical and applied skills of both E [email protected] written texts and project work.
Facilities
• Specialist art & design library • Lecture programme with guest speakers • Dedicated baseroom • IT facilities (Mac/PC) with industry-related software • Extensive printmaking and photographic facilities • Computer studios including high-end production • 3D Design workshops • Media Store (cameras, lighting, tripods) • Photo studios and darkrooms • Digital print room • Textile printers • Photographic printers and scanners • Silkscreen printing.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 27 Art & Design Practice Pre-Masters Graduate Diploma January 2013 start: 30 weeks full-time UCA Epsom* UCA September 2013 start: Duration to be confirmed www.ucreative.ac.uk/pre-masters-practice
This Graduate Diploma course prepares you for Stage 1 studying practical creative arts subjects at Study units include research Masters level in the UK with pathways in fashion methods, critical analysis and and graphics-related subjects. You will be able to English for academic purposes. develop your practical subject expertise to the You will also learn and practice the level required to successfully progress on to a process of exploration through Masters-level course. This course is designed for problem solving, critical questioning and self reflection and students who have previously studied outside of undertake project briefs that the EU. develop your understanding of the relationship between research, The Graduate Diploma will also develop your theory and practice. English language, academic, research and study skills, as well as your critical and analytical Stage 2 abilities in relation to your chosen area of You will examine traditional and interest. current ideas in the development of visual culture and have a lecture During the course you will develop your series that introduces you to a knowledge of visual and cultural contexts range of contextual and theoretical alongside the development of your area of debates that are important to the subject expertise. In addition you will learn study of creative arts in contemporary society. about British culture, public arts institutions and studying a range of current cultural and This stage will also see you theoretical debates in the visual arts. produce a major project relating directly to your chosen subject All students who successfully complete the area. This unit also covers essential skills required for academic study Pre-Masters Diploma and progress to UCA at a higher level and will increase postgraduate degree level courses will be your overall academic English automatically eligible to a £1,000 fee waiver.** proficiency.
* the location of this course is subject to change ** Fee waiver only applies to students from outside of the EU
28 www.ucreative.ac.uk UCA Epsom* Art & Design Practice Pre-Masters Graduate Diploma January 2013 start: 30 weeks full-time September 2013 start: Duration to be confirmed www.ucreative.ac.uk/pre-masters-practice
Industry experience Careers
This course has extensive links with industry Career opportunities vary depending on the professionals through visiting lecture and specialism you choose within the course. seminar programmes. As well as having links Graduates develop careers as independent or with various London-based design agencies and industry-based fashion or graphic designers, fashion houses for employment and work fashion/design or brand managers, creative experience links and network building. directors, working in public relations as well as continuing to Masters-level degree study. How this course is taught Typical entrance requirements You are taught through studio practice, tutorials, lectures, seminars and practical skills workshops. • A recognised Honours degree or equivalent Assessment methods will range from group • Knowledge and/or experience of Fashion presentations, essay workshops, tutorials and Design or Graphic Design formative critiques. Class hours include 21 hours • Minimum IELTS 5.0 or equivalent (with a per week minimum teaching with a student staff minimum of 4.5 in each element) ratio of 15:1. Portfolio How this course is assessed Your portfolio should show: You are assessed on evidence of your • technical ability in the related subject area i.e. knowledge, understanding through application of fashion or graphics ideas, research and methodological approach and your technical and applied skills of both • evidence of research skills written texts and practical projects. • creative exploration of visual research • ability to develop ideas into visual concepts. Facilities Contact our International Enquiries service • Specialist art & design library • Lecture programme with guest speakers W www.ucreative.ac.uk/pathway • Dedicated baseroom T +44 (0)1252 892838 • IT facilities (Mac/PC) with industry-related E [email protected] software • Extensive printmaking and photographic facilities • Computer studios including high-end production • 3D Design workshops • Media Store (cameras, lighting, tripods) • Photo studios and darkrooms • Digital print room • Textile printers • Photographic printers and scanners • Silkscreen printing.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 29 Three Dimensional Design
At UCA’s School of Three Dimensional Design we provide the facilities and the expertise to embrace three dimensional and product design from traditional to cutting-edge, including interactive design and digital products. You gain the skills to become an innovative designer/maker with the skills to produce anything from individual one-off products to high-volume manufactured consumer products. Courses are designed to include the newest and most ground- breaking developments in product design.
30 Jitka Schacherlova, MA Contemporary Crafts, UCA Farnham 31 Courses
Contemporary Crafts MA/MFA, UCA Farnham 34 Contemporary Jewellery MA, UCA Rochester 36 Design MA, UCA Rochester 38 Sustainable Product Design MA/MFA, UCA Farnham 40 Textiles MA/MFA, UCA Farnham 42
Why study Three Dimensional Industry contacts include Design at UCA? The Crafts Council; The Royal School of • Dedicated baserooms Needlework; Farnham Maltings; Selvedge Magazine; Nuno Corporation; The New • Excellent facilities including workshops Ashgate Gallery; Melin Tregwynt Woollen using textiles, ceramics, glass, plastics Mill; Venini; Orefors; Pilkington; Dartington and resins, wood, and metals, with Crystal; Worshipful Company of industry-standard equipment and Ironmongers; The Goldsmiths’ Company; technology Worshipful Company of Pewterers; • Home to the Centre for Sustainable Dartington Pottery; Lambs Terracotta; Product Design and the Crafts Study Association of Contemporary Jewellery; Centre IDC (Industrial Design Consultancy); TheAlloy; IDEO; Philips; Kenwood/ • Lecture programme with guest speakers DeLonghi. • Excellent links with industry.
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Karen Murfitt MA Textiles, UCA Farnham
Choosing to study a Masters in 2007 BA (Hons) in History of Art and Contemporary Textiles at UCA Design Winchester School of Art Farnham has had a fundamental impact in furthering my career as a 2009 MA in Contemporary Crafts (Textiles), milliner, in helping me to follow UCA Farnham through from design to creation and gave me the confidence to hold my 2010 Collaboration with celebrated first exhibition. ceramicist Eric James Mellon The lecturers inspired new concepts 2011 Joint exhibition of millinery and and taught me to contextualise my ceramics with Eric James Mellon at the work, which developed independent Otter Gallery, Chichester thinking. 2011 Commissioned to design and make a The course taught me to both collection of hats aimed specifically for collaborate and work with other ladies who have lost their hair through artists, which has been a new cancer treatment experience in a millinery career that has so far spanned 25 years. 2012 Commissioned to make hats for London designer Tracy Rose for Royal Ascot
2012 Working as a freelance milliner for Narida Fraiman Millinery
2012 Joint exhibition of collaborative work with Eric James Mellon at the Musée Ariana, Geneva
www.ucreative.ac.uk 33 Contemporary Crafts MA/MFA (Ceramics, Glass, Jewellery) MA: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time
UCA Farnham UCA MFA: 2 years full-time / 4 years part-time www.ucreative.ac.uk/ma-contemporary-crafts
This course gives design professionals and Stage 1 graduates the opportunity to deepen skills and Plan your exploratory project experience in the areas of ceramics, glass or whilst developing research, jewellery and to refine specific areas of research. communication and presentation This course is for highly motivated and talented methods. people who wish to work at the forefront of one Stage 2 of theses creative disciplines. Introduces a professional context This is a project-led and studio-based course for your research. You also with close tutorial guidance. Rigorous research complete a reflective project unit will encourage you to explore a wide range of that includes professional practice approaches, from traditional to contemporary and a work placement opportunity. influences of art, craft, design and technology. Stage 3
You will benefit from teaching by leading Consolidate and realise your project specialist designers, artists and crafts people. both practically and theoretically. You make objects, experiment with surface materials or processes and develop your creative thinking.
UCA Farnham boasts first-rate facilities with extensive workshops and equipment to support your study. It is also home to the Crafts Study Centre – a purpose-built museum, research centre and gallery for the crafts.
The information outlined here is for the MA award; students will be given the option to continue for a further one or two years study in order to obtain the award of MFA.
34 www.ucreative.ac.uk UCA Farnham Contemporary Crafts MA/MFA (Ceramics, Glass, Jewellery) MA: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time MFA: 2 years full-time / 4 years part-time www.ucreative.ac.uk/ma-contemporary-crafts
Industry experience • Outdoor kiln site including wood burning, gas, soda firing and raku firing Ceramics: Recent projects with the Watts Gallery • Plaster workshop for ceramics and glass and include historical research, exhibition and other moulding techniques such as gelflex and curation. Dartington Pottery is produced at wax nearby Grayshott Pottery and links benefit those researching surface and glaze. Links with Froyle • Jewellery workshop to spin, raise, cut, polish, Tiles and Lambs Terracotta provide an engrave and cast metals opportunity to research interior and exterior • Three forges and equipment for large scale architecture, along with restoration and metalwork. renovation projects. Glass: Links with Venini, Orefors, Pilkington and Careers Dartington Crystal have all provided work placements and Fusion Glass has assisted The craft and design industries offer many students wishing to research architectural glass. different and evolving career opportunities for graduates. Recent graduates work as artists, Jewellery: Has excellent support from the designers, makers, arts administrators, gallery Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, The curators, teachers and writers. Goldsmiths’ Company and the Worshipful Company of Pewterers. Typical entry requirements
How this course is taught • A good Honours degree (normally 2:1 or above) or equivalent qualification in your chosen Studio-based practice is taught in a range of subject or a related discipline, and/or; ways, including one-to-one tutorials, small group tutorials and discussions. You have access to • Relevant work experience, demonstrating your visiting lecturers and the Artist in Residence. ability to study at postgraduate level • For English language requirements, see How this course is assessed Essential Information on page 61.
Both your practical work and theoretical writing is Portfolio assessed. This may include essays, presentations, research papers or catalogues. A portfolio of both 2D and 3D work which shows evidence of practical and visual ability is required Facilities for this course. For international applicants, or where it is not possible to submit 3D work, a There are extensive workshops at UCA Farnham good quality digital portfolio is acceptable. offering an enviable array of equipment to support your needs: Contact our Enquiries Service • Hot shop for blowing and working with molten glass and cold working facility for cutting, T +44 (0) 1252 892883 grinding and polishing glass E [email protected] • Kiln rooms for both ceramics and glass
www.ucreative.ac.uk 35 Contemporary Jewellery MA 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time www.ucreative.ac.uk/ma-contemporary-jewellery UCA Rochester UCA
This course celebrates the contribution of the Stage 1 individual artist and designer/maker. It enables Focus on your personal project, you to extend the boundaries of your practice supported by a core programme of through an examination of cutting edge ideas in lectures and seminars. These jewellery. comprise taught units including research methods, contemporary You are free to explore a variety of materials and issues in design and to experiment with scale, form, ornament and interdisciplinary studies. You body adornment. The course is responsive to a confirm the direction of your personal project at the end of this wide range of issues from fine art, fashion, stage. design and photography. It is designed to encourage you to explore the relationship Stage 2 between jewellery and other related disciplines. Develop your personal project, For example, there is the opportunity to which may be specialist or collaborate with MA Fashion students on interdisciplinary and explore project/s. methods, techniques, concepts and themes. Conceived as a breeding ground for experimentation and innovation, the course is an Stage 3 excellent opportunity for you to develop cutting- Complete and publish your project. edge work in the subject. You work with practising professionals to identify future audiences for your ideas and prepare for the next stage of your career.
36 www.ucreative.ac.uk UCA Rochester Contemporary Jewellery MA 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time www.ucreative.ac.uk/ma-contemporary-jewellery
Industry experience Careers
The course has long-standing links with the Our graduates work as practising jewellers, Association for Contemporary Jewellery, The artists, designer/makers, arts administrators or in Goldsmiths’ Company and other leading trade design consultancies, galleries and designer organisations. You are encouraged to build outlets. personal contacts and networks through competitions, exhibitions and publishing. Typical entry requirements
How this course is taught • A good Honours degree (normally 2:1 or above) or equivalent qualification in your chosen Working alongside creative practitioners from a subject or a related discipline, and/or; variety of different design backgrounds, you • Relevant work experience, demonstrating your receive specialist tuition through a combination ability to study at postgraduate level of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials. You are expected to present your work in • For English language requirements, see progress regularly at formal reviews. The Essential Information on page 61. emphasis is placed on personal development through the production of your jewellery project. Portfolio You should have a creative portfolio which How this course is assessed includes images of recent work and shows a Assessment includes evidence of clear design direction. A CV should also be experimentation and research in the form of submitted. design proposals, reviews, presentations, exhibitions of work, reflective journals and written Contact our Enquiries Service papers. T +44 (0) 1252 892883 E [email protected] Facilities
In addition to a dedicated postgraduate baseroom and University Library, specialist facilities for jewellery design include: • Dedicated jewellery workshops for the production of both fine and experimental metalwork • Workshops for working in wood, metal, plastics and ceramics • Rapid prototyping, 3D scanning and laser cutting.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 37 Design MA 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time www.ucreative.ac.uk/ma-design UCA Rochester UCA
This course offers a taught core programme that Stage 1 helps you to develop a wide range of skills and The focus of this course is the strategies, including research into new personal project, supported by a technologies, future forecasting and design core programme of lectures and methodologies. Areas for exploration may seminars. You confirm the include architectural & interior design, design direction of your personal project crafts, digital design, and product design. at the end of this stage. Stage 2 With a philosophical emphasis, the course allows you the freedom to explore current Focus on the development of your design opportunities both within and between personal project. Your project may different areas while supporting you as you be specialist or interdisciplinary and develop your own distinctive style. will extend the boundaries of design through an exploration of This course promotes joined-up thinking as an methods, techniques, ideas and themes. approach to design, so that the relationship between artefacts, environments and the Stage 3 systems and organisations in which they operate can be re-examined. It acknowledges that in Complete and publish your final project. Work with practising order to realise potential and to participate in the professionals to identify future challenge of designing in the future, the audiences for your ideas and designer needs to continually review and rethink prepare for the next stage of your the boundaries and systems of design itself. career.
38 www.ucreative.ac.uk UCA Rochester Design MA 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time www.ucreative.ac.uk/ma-design
Industry experience Careers
For all areas, you are encouraged to take part in Graduates have gone on to establish their careers live projects, concept development, competitions as practising designer/makers and as creative and to visit exhibitions, giving you opportunities entrepreneurs with their own businesses. Others to build professional contacts. have taken diverse routes within public art, teaching and research. How this course is taught Typical entrance requirements You receive specialist tuition through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops • A good Honours degree (normally 2:1 or above) and tutorials. You are expected to present your or equivalent qualification in your chosen work in progress regularly at formal reviews. subject or a related discipline, and/or; Above all, the emphasis is placed on personal • Relevant work experience, demonstrating your development through the production of your ability to study at postgraduate level design project. • For English language requirements, see How this course is assessed Essential Information on page 61.
Assessment includes evidence of Portfolio experimentation and research in the form of design proposals, reviews, presentations, Your portfolio should include a selection of exhibitions of work, reflective journals and written images of recent work, evidence of written work papers. and a CV. Enthusiasm for your subject and the desire to succeed are essential. Facilities Contact our Enquiries Service Include a dedicated studio equipped with computers loaded with a wide range of business T +44 (0) 1252 892883 and design software and access to UCA E [email protected] Rochester’s digital media suites which provide facilities for working with video and sound production. Specialist design facilities include: • Digital imaging facilities to support you in developing your skills in imagining and building digital environments • Studio and workshop facilities for the production of metalwork, ceramics, plastics, wood and laser etching • Workshops for making in wood, metal, plastics and ceramics, including rapid prototyping and 3D scanning.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 39 Sustainable Product Design MA/MFA MA: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time MFA: 2 years full-time / 4 years part-time www.ucreative.ac.uk/ma-product-design UCA Farnham UCA
This course provides a conceptual process and Stage 1 context for the development of creative and You study units that include an innovative products, which includes the study of exploratory project where you socio-cultural and economic issues; new investigate the application of technologies; and creative visual language in product design skills and relation to your practice. knowledge alongside contextual perspectives. You undertake individual research projects using Stage 2 an integrated product design process. You develop and communicate sustainable design Continue to formulate and develop solutions that also meet other relevant design your ideas, understanding the criteria and respond to broader issues such as relationship of your project to lifestyles, markets or the information economy. professional practice and considering your practice in respect There are seminar sessions with visiting of further contextual perspectives. professional product designers who provide Stage 3 critical feedback to advance your design concepts to prototype stage, ready for final Your final project represents the exhibition and commercial manufacture. culmination of your studies and forms an exposition of the central ideas and concepts developed throughout the course. You have the option to resolve your project as practice-based work or a dissertation or a combination of both.
The information outlined here is for the MA award; students will be given the option to continue for a further one or two years study in order to obtain the award of MFA.
40 www.ucreative.ac.uk UCA Farnham Sustainable Product Design MA/MFA MA: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time MFA: 2 years full-time / 4 years part-time www.ucreative.ac.uk/ma-product-design
Industry experience Careers
Our range of industry contacts include: Graduate opportunities exist within: • IDC (Industrial Design Consultancy) • Product design practice • TheAlloy (Product and Interaction Consultants) • Independent design studios • IDEO (Design Consultants) • Specialist design consultancies • Philips • Design teams in manufacturing industry • Kenwood/DeLonghi. • Design management • Environmental management How this course is taught • Service design sectors You are taught through a mixture of seminars, • International design research groups. lectures and specialist subject activities, initially to form your objectives and study plan, Typical entry requirements identifying design activities and possible • A good Honours degree (normally 2:1 or above) commercial partners. or equivalent qualification in your chosen subject or a related discipline, and/or; How this course is assessed • Relevant work experience, demonstrating your You are assessed on your major project thesis ability to study at postgraduate level which includes product development work in • For English language requirements, see collaboration with an industry partner. Your thesis Essential Information on page 61. could take a number of formats including: essays, presentations and research papers; Portfolio conceptual development in models and drawings; and prototyping work in innovation You should have a comprehensive portfolio of and consumer products. completed design projects from product design or other related design subjects such as interior Facilities design, interaction design, furniture design, transport design, film and media. In addition to the dedicated postgraduate baseroom, seminar space and collections in the Contact our Enquiries Service University Library, you have access to extensive manufacturing workshops. T +44 (0) 1252 892883 The Centre for Sustainable Design is based at E [email protected] UCA Farnham. This research centre facilitates discussion and research on eco-design and broader sustainability considerations in product and service development.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 41 Textiles MA/MFA MA: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time MFA: 2 years full-time / 4 years part-time www.ucreative.ac.uk/ma-textiles UCA Farnham UCA
This course is constructed around the Stage 1 development of individual research into textile Plan your exploratory project culture, craft and design, allowing you to whilst developing research, combine previous experience of textiles practice communication and presentation with a personal project. methods and skills. This is the time of discovery and to extend You are encouraged and supported through the your range of interests and process of exploration, interrogation, understanding, a time of ‘opening transformation and resolution. You question your doors’. own conventions of making; challenge your own Stage 2 assumptions about your work; innovate with materials, processes, techniques and ideas; and Introduces a professional context emerge from the postgraduate experience with a for your research. You also complete a reflective project renewed sense of personal vision, all of which building on your research during you are expected to locate within an appropriate the exploratory stage. This includes context. a focus of professional practice.
The course team are practising researchers, Stage 3 involved in a range of textile practices, exhibiting Your final project represents the and publishing internationally. You benefit from culmination of your studies and our links with established artists, designers, forms an exposition of the central studio workshops and galleries. The Craft Study ideas and concepts you have Centre, which is a purpose-built museum, developed throughout the course. You have the option to resolve your research centre and gallery for the crafts, is also project as practice-based work or a based at UCA Farnham. dissertation or a combination of both.
The information outlined here is for the MA award; students will be given the option to continue for a further one or two years study in order to obtain the award of MFA.
42 www.ucreative.ac.uk UCA Farnham Textiles MA/MFA MA: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time MFA: 2 years full-time / 4 years part-time www.ucreative.ac.uk/ma-textiles
Industry experience Careers
We have contacts with: Opportunities include work as: • The Crafts Council • Freelance design professionals • The Royal School of Needlework • Self-employed designer/makers • Farnham Maltings • Textile designers • Selvedge Magazine • Public art practitioners • Nuno Corporation • Textile conservationists and curators • The New Ashgate Gallery • Arts educators and teachers • Melin Tregwynt Woollen Mill. • Textile stylists • Fashion buyers and retailers How this course is taught • Gallery directors. Tutorials, lectures, seminars and critiques support Typical entry requirements the development of your research and practice. As part of the course you are expected to • A good Honours degree (normally 2:1 or above) undertake some form of professional practice, or equivalent qualification in your chosen such as a live brief, competition, application for a subject or a related discipline, and/or; residency, funding or a work placement. • Relevant work experience, demonstrating your How this course is assessed ability to study at postgraduate level • For English language requirements, see Both your practical work and theoretical writing is Essential Information on page 61. assessed. This may include essays, presentations, research papers or catalogues. Portfolio
Facilities A personal statement is required explaining your motivation to study the course and the areas you The Textiles studios are equipped with: wish to explore, referring to relevant concepts, • Design studios practical textile skills you possess and your • Cloth and yarn dyeing workshops ambitions for the type of work you wish to create. A practical portfolio that includes a range • Screen printing and finishing areas of work expressing your creativity is required at • Extensive weave workshops interview. • Computerised dobby looms • Dedicated ICT suite Contact our Enquiries Service • Fabric digital printing facilities T +44 (0) 1252 892883 • Laser cutter E [email protected] • A rich collection of world textiles.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 43 Lisa Manning MA Contemporary Crafts UCA Farnham
44 www.ucreative.ac.uk Claire Hincks MA Contemporary Crafts UCA Farnham
Susan Derbyshire MA Contemporary Crafts (Glass), UCA Farnham
www.ucreative.ac.uk 45 Louise Anderson MA Textiles UCA Farnham
46 www.ucreative.ac.uk Abhinav Prasoon MA Design UCA Rochester
Liam Scarlino MA Design UCA Rochester
www.ucreative.ac.uk 47 48 Life at UCA
49 50 www.ucreative.ac.uk UCA Farnham
Campus
UCA Farnham is a hub of creativity with over 2,000 students studying a wide range of creative arts including fine art, photography, film, textiles, crafts, animation, graphics, journalism and advertising. To support these study areas the campus has extensive facilities, including specialist workshops for textiles, ceramics, glass and jewellery; fine art and animation studios; film and sound editing suites; journalism newsrooms; photography studios and darkrooms.
Postgraduate community
Postgraduate study is well supported through our University Library which houses film, animation and sound effects collections and a radio recordings archive. A fine art and architecture collection of 150,000 slides is complemented by an online collection of 100,000 free-to-use images through the Visuals Arts Data Service (VADS) based at UCA Farnham.
Our MA courses are diverse in both critical thinking and conceptual practice and the subjects offered are varied within the field of contemporary visual research.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 51 Artistic community lots of interesting boutiques, high street favourites and an independent UCA is a central hub in the artistic life of department store. There are also lots of Farnham. The campus is home to the restaurants to suit all tastes, from Italian James Hockey & Foyer galleries which and French to Indian, Chinese and Thai. are open to the public; they host a diverse range of exhibitions by visiting The Students’ Union at UCA Farnham artists as well as UCA’s staff, students provides nightclub entertainment during and graduates. A number of research the week, and also hosts a range of centres are based on campus, including societies and clubs including football and the Animation Research Centre, the the performing arts society. Farnham has Centre for Sustainable Design and the a strong artistic heritage and the town Crafts Study Centre, a purpose-built has a number of galleries and arts museum and gallery for the crafts. centres offering a wide range of artistic entertainment. The Farnham Maltings presents a varied programme of music, Location stand-up comedy, drama, dance and cinema. It also hosts a range of festivals Farnham is a charming market town, and events including the Maltings crafts surrounded by beautiful countryside and market. The New Ashgate Gallery close to Guildford and London. It has a exhibits and sells an extensive collection range of friendly pubs, including The of contemporary fine art and craft. Mulberry, The Queen’s Head and the William Cobbett, that offer student deals, live music and great food. There are a good range of shops with
52 www.ucreative.ac.uk Accommodation Getting around
The campus is home to our award- The train station is a 15-minute walk winning Student Village, and further from the campus and direct trains to and accommodation is available in the Main from London take just under an hour. Hall. Both sites offer flats and houses Heathrow and Gatwick airports are with single and shared study bedrooms within easy reach. for up to 376 students, with a small number of ensuite bedrooms. A number Campus highlights video of rooms in the Student Village have been adapted for disabled use. In Scan this with a addition to this there is a good range of smartphone app that reads private student housing and lodgings in QR codes to watch a video Farnham. of UCA Farnham’s campus highlights. For further information on all the accommodation on offer please visit www.ucreative.ac.uk/ accommodation/farnham www.ucreative.ac.uk 53 54 www.ucreative.ac.uk UCA Rochester
Campus
UCA Rochester offers a wide range of disciplines, including fashion, photography and three dimensional design. The campus boasts a wide range of industry-standard facilities including state- of-the-art fashion technology offered by only two other fashion departments in the country. Staff and students are dedicated to producing innovative work which provokes enquiry, inspires creativity and challenges existing modes of practice and thought.
Postgraduate community
UCA Rochester offers a wide range of postgraduate courses in fashion, contemporary jewellery, design and photography. It is also the home of the MBA in Creative Industries Management.
Studying at postgraduate level within an exciting community of artists and designers will equip you with the skills, opportunities and possibilities for creative, personal and professional development.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 55 Artistic community Location
The Zandra Rhodes gallery at UCA Located in the Medway area of Kent, Rochester provides a focus for local Rochester has a rich history and literary interest in the arts with a broad range of heritage with a medieval cathedral and exhibitions. Creative arts events are held castle. The city offers a wide choice of regularly and the courses focus on restaurants, bars and cafés fused by a building experience and preparation for radical arts and music scene and vibrant the highly competitive creative arts popular culture. Rochester has a creative professions. UCA Rochester is keen to and lively energy with quirky shops and encourage and develop creative cobbled streets, combined with a industries in the local area, providing a buzzing social scene. Rochester is very network of support for those looking to compact, with Chatham close by, so it is work or set up businesses in this area. easy to navigate the area on foot.
The Students’ Union organises and hosts events and clubs, ranging from gospel choir to yoga. In town, you’ll find numerous pubs, many showcasing up- and-coming bands, restaurants of all types, art galleries and a multiplex cinema. Close by, there are six easily-accessible sports centres, an ice rink, dry ski slope, indoor karting centre and a sailing club.
56 www.ucreative.ac.uk Creative arts events are held regularly and the courses focus on building experience and preparation for the highly competitive creative arts professions.
Accommodation Getting around
The residential accommodation at Doust Central London is only around 40 Way offers flats with single ensuite minutes away by train, and Gatwick and bedrooms for up to 215 students. Heathrow airports are also within easy Located by the river, it’s a 5-minute walk reach. from the train station, town centre and campus. Two study bedrooms have been adapted for disabled use. The student Campus highlights video accommodation office provides lists of Scan this with a approved private student houses and smartphone app that reads lodgings. QR codes to watch a video For further information on all the of UCA Rochester’s accommodation available please visit campus highlights. www.ucreative.ac.uk/ accommodation/rochester
www.ucreative.ac.uk 57 58 Essential Information
59 How to apply
We welcome applications from students from a wide range of backgrounds. We use the information supplied in your application, such as academic experience, work experience and references, to assess your suitability for postgraduate study.
Making an application Portfolios Applications for postgraduate study should For some of our courses you will be be made directly to UCA. You can apply required to submit a portfolio. Your online by clicking on the course page of portfolio should include a broad selection the website. Once you’ve submitted an of work that showcases your experience application you will be given a user name and abilities. It should also reflect your and password for the Applicant Portal commitment to the subject area for which where you can track the progress of your you are applying and demonstrate your application and find lots of useful capability to work at an advanced level in information. your chosen area. You may also be asked to submit a project proposal outlining the Deadline for applications area you wish to investigate during your postgraduate study. We accept applications throughout the year. There is no deadline for taught We recommend that you upload your courses, though we encourage you to portfolio to websites such as Flickr and apply by March in your year of entry to YouTube and provide us with a link to your allow enough time to allocate you work rather than supplying original work accommodation if required. which cannot be returned.
www.ucreative.ac.uk/apply-now/ Specific information about portfolio postgraduate requirements can be found on the course pages in this prospectus and online. . Research degree applicants More general information is available on For information about research activity at our webpage: UCA and for full details on how to apply www.ucreative.ac.uk/portfolio for a Research Degree please contact our Research Office or visit our website:
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60 www.ucreative.ac.uk Interviews Applicants requiring a visa to study in the You may be invited to come for an UK also need a score of at least 5.5 in each interview, although we do not interview all component (reading, writing, speaking and of our applicants. You may be offered a listening) of an IELTS test to meet UKBA place based on your application form requirements. A full list of UKBA approved alone. Where appropriate to the subject of English language test providers can be study, you should also bring your portfolio found on their website of work. www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
English language requirements For more detailed information on English language requirements and pre-sessional A good command of English language is language courses please go to essential for postgraduate study. If English is not your first language, you must www.ucreative.ac.uk/international/ provide evidence of your language ability. english You may be offered a place on a course on the condition that you reach the required Further information level of English first. The following If you require any additional information or requirements are the minimum English would like to discuss the exact language standards: requirements of your chosen course, For postgraduate courses, with the please contact our dedicated Enquiries exception of the course listed below, the Service: level is IELTS 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 T: +44 (0) 1252 892883 in each component)/ TOEFL 88 (iBT) or E: [email protected] UKBA recognised equivalent. International students should contact our For MBA Creative Industries Management, international enquiries service: the level is IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 6.0 in each component) or UKBA T: +44 (0) 1252 892838 recognised equivalent. E: [email protected]
www.ucreative.ac.uk 61 Fees and finance: UK/EU students
Tuition fees Equivalent level qualifications (ELQ) The tuition fees stated are for the full If you are from the UK or EU and have academic year. They must be paid at the previously completed a postgraduate start of each academic year, though you degree, or the course you wish to pursue may ask to pay in equal instalments. Fees at UCA is at a level equal to or lower than a are reviewed each year and may be qualification you already hold, you may be subject to increase, please check the liable for full cost fees, which are higher website for the most up-to-date than those listed on page 159. information. For example, for 2013 entry the annual For detailed information about tuition fees tuition fee for an ELQ student to study a or any other charges and how to pay, full-time MA course is £11,410. Further please see our website: information on ELQ fees is available on our website: www.ucreative.ac.uk/fees/postgraduate www.ucreative.ac.uk/fees/postgraduate Research degree fees For information regarding research degree Funding available from UCA tuition fees please visit our website: UCA Creative Scholarships These are designed to support students in www.ucreative.ac.uk/fees/postgraduate a variety of disciplines. For information about available scholarships for postgraduate study, visit our website:
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62 www.ucreative.ac.uk UK/EU taught postgraduate annual tuition fees 2013 entry:
Course Full-time PG Cert Learning & Teaching in the Creative Arts – Graduate Diploma in Architecture £3,465 MA Courses £4,100 MBA Creative Industries Management £13,680 MFA Photography £2,730
For part-time fee information and full fee schedule please visit www.ucreative.ac.uk/tuitionfees-2013-14
Please note: If you are from the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man you will be charged the same fees as international students.
External funding The Arts and Humanities Research There are two major external sources of Council (AHRC) funding for your postgraduate course: During the academic years 2012-13 and 2013-14 UCA and NUCA will be able to Professional and Career offer up to 4 full-time or part-time AHRC Development Loans funded studentships for study on specific This source of funding is a deferred MA courses. For further information visit repayment bank loan to help you pay for our website: vocational education or training. The loan www.ucreative.ac.uk/ahrc-funded- supports up to two years of learning (or up studentships to three years if the course includes work experience). Further information about fees and funding www.direct.gov.uk/cdl and a wealth of information to help you in the search for funding is available online at:
www.ucreative.ac.uk/fees/postgraduate
www.ucreative.ac.uk 63 International students
Course entry requirements Each campus has an EAP Tutor who you Only full-time courses are available to can arrange to see for a one-to-one or international students. The entry small group tutorial on any aspect of requirements for international students are language use and communication on the same as for UK applicants. You can your course of study. They can also find the specific entry requirements for arrange course-specific workshops your course on the course pages in this (subject to demand) to address language prospectus. If you do not have the and communication issues that you may qualifications as outlined, we may accept encounter during your studies. equivalent qualifications. Whether you are a first or additional language speaker of English, an English language requirements international or home student, or are All our courses are taught in English so simply new to a university environment, your spoken and written English and your the EAP team can assist you to reading and listening skills must be communicate effectively and creatively appropriate for your chosen level of study. in your chosen field. We may make you an offer of a place on www.ucreative.ac.uk/international/ the condition that you reach the required english level of English first. If you do not meet the English language requirements for your Tuition fees course, we run pre-sessional English language courses which will improve your Our fixed fees policy for international English level. students guarantees that once you enrol on your course, your tuition fees remain www.ucreative.ac.uk/pathway at the same level for each subsequent year of study until you graduate. Fees are English for Academic Purposes: help payable in UK £ sterling and exchange with language and communication rates can fluctuate.
The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) If you pay your fees in full either on or team are there to give help and advice on before enrolment, you pay the discounted anything to do with language and fee. communication, for example they can help with project work, research, assignments You can request to pay in instalments, but and assignment writing, discussing your you will be charged the standard fee. work with lecturers and other students, For full details of tuition fees, any other keeping a reflective sketchbook or journal, charges and how to pay, please see: cultural differences in communication, or the use of language in your creative work www.ucreative.ac.uk/international/fees and practice.
64 www.ucreative.ac.uk International taught postgraduate annual tuition fees 2013 entry:
Course Full-time Full-time If paid in full If paid in instalments Graduate Diploma in Architecture £10,690 £11,140 MA Courses £10,950 £11,410 MBA Creative Industries Management £14,060 £14,650 MFA Photography £7,300 £7,610 MPhil / PhD £10,950 £11,410 Pre-Masters Graduate Diploma in Art & Design (Practice & Management) £9,500 – Pre-sessional English courses – 5 week £2,300* 10 week £4,600*
* price includes enhanced accommodation and meet & greet packages, please see the course page for further details.
How to apply Support and advice You can apply for our postgraduate courses International students are welcomed at the using the online application form at University and an International Student www.ucreative.ac.uk/international- Adviser is available at each campus to apply-pg provide information on matters including budgeting and financial matters, health Where possible, we interview applicants and welfare, study visas, visa extensions overseas. For details of which countries and police registration. we are visiting and contact details of our overseas representatives, please see www.ucreative.ac.uk/international/ support www.ucreative.ac.uk/international- events Contact us If you have any questions, please contact Accommodation UCA’s International Team: International students are given priority for University accommodation, providing T: +44 (0) 1252 892838 that you apply before the main allocation E: [email protected] in June. www.ucreative.ac.uk/international www.ucreative.ac.uk/accommodation
www.ucreative.ac.uk 65 Careers and employability
By choosing to study with us you are Establishing your career making a valuable investment in your Our Enterprise team works with new and future. We support you through our established businesses to support the employment-focused teaching and development and transfer of creative skills, learning and through industry links, knowledge and expertise. business advice and careers guidance. We work with the academic community, www.ucreative.ac.uk/creative-careers careers services and the Students’ Union to embed entrepreneurship in the Skills for the workplace University. Through work placements, Skills in creative thinking, problem solving, student projects, commissions, teamwork and project management are scholarships and sponsorships UCA highly valued by employers. By bringing provides a vital link to the creative world. the workplace into the learning We regularly seek funding to support UCA environment we ensure that you are fully students and graduates offering internship, prepared for the world of work. Our enterprise training and technical up-skilling established industry contacts provide opportunities. placement opportunities, live projects and valuable expertise through lectures and The Creative Challenge is a prestigious technical workshops. enterprise and innovation award specifically for UCA students. In the past, Through these industry contacts we the award has been supported by Apple, ensure that our teaching remains relevant UK, Sony UK, KIA Motors UK and Ogilvy. to today’s creative and cultural industries. This approach is supported by the professional work of our own staff, many Careers Service of whom are creative practitioners as well Our Careers Service provides the essential as academics. tools to enhance your professional career development and employability. 80% of As a UCA student you are actively our full-time UK and EU 2010/11 encouraged to enter award schemes as postgraduates were amongst the highest competition success is a great way for graduate income earners, managing their you to gain feedback and exposure and own successful business or working in to progress your career. Our students professional roles within six months of achieve success in a host of national graduating*. and international art and design awards every year.
66 www.ucreative.ac.uk Working closely with academic staff the range of Career Services we provide includes:
• Specialist online career resources including an online vacancy service • Career workshops, presentations and networking events • One-to-one confidential guidance appointment service • Regular drop-in sessions and E-guidance services • Dedicated career and employability information areas at each UCA University Library
The Careers Service continues to provide a range of services for alumni for a further three years beyond graduation.
Our Careers Service is accredited to the matrix Standard, the unique quality framework for the effective delivery of information, advice and guidance on learning and work. It has full membership of the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS).
*Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency 2010/11 (HESA)
www.ucreative.ac.uk 67 Facilities and learning support
Teaching and access to facilities Study advice Full-time postgraduate taught students The Study Advisory Service is a team of have scheduled teaching and/or activities specialist tutors who provide academic for up to two days a week and have guidance and study advice to all students. access to workshops and studios for a They support you with both academic and further 3 days as agreed with their studio-based work, encouraging subject-specialist tutor. independent study and equipping you Part-time postgraduate taught students with the skills to articulate your research have scheduled teaching and/or activities findings. In addition, course-specific for up to two days a week and have Librarians work alongside Study Advisors access to workshops and studios for a to assist with research and help you further day as agreed with their subject- develop skills necessary to locate and use specialist tutor. information independently. Both these discipline-specific roles work closely with All Masters students have access to course tutors in curriculum planning and Library resources as per the Library information management – this enables a opening hours. close relationship between the tutors and students. Computing and digital resources Library & Learning Services Each campus is equipped with Macs and PCs for graphics or general design work; Each UCA campus has a University Library video equipment; and scanning and dedicated to supporting the particular printing facilities. subject needs of its students. We provide core and specialist software Term-time opening hours are listed on the for specific disciplines including Adobe Library webpage. InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator; Macromedia Dreamweaver and Director; www.ucreative.ac.uk/library Microsoft Project; Autodesk 3D Studio Workshops and studios MAX and others. Our workshops and studios house a range You have access to the student portal, of equipment to serve your creative and myUCA, which is an integrated web technical needs. They are staffed by a environment that provides an online base dedicated team of specialist technicians to for everything you need while studying at support your study. the University. For more information about all our facilities please see our individual course pages, or go to the webpage: www.ucreative.ac.uk/facilities
68 www.ucreative.ac.uk Accommodation
We offer a range of accommodation at each campus to suit your needs and budget.
UCA Canterbury UCA Rochester Our sites offer flats and houses with Our site offers flats with ensuite study ensuite and standard single study bedrooms for up to 215 students. Doust bedrooms for up to 188 students. Ian Dury Way is located by the river and is about a House has 57 ensuite bedrooms and is on five minute walk from Rochester station, campus. Some study bedrooms have been the town centre and the campus. Two adapted for disabled use. Hotham Court study bedrooms have been adapted for has 107 bedrooms the majority of which disabled use. are standard bedrooms. Riverdale House has 24 ensuite bedrooms; both Hotham How to apply Court and Riverdale House are about a 30 Once you have formally accepted an offer minute walk from campus, a 20 minute of a place on a course at UCA, you will be walk from the city centre and a five minute able to access the applicant portal to apply walk from a large supermarket. for accommodation online.
UCA Epsom The demand for accommodation differs Our sites offer flats and houses with each year and we are not able to ensuite and standard single study guarantee you a place. Priority is given to bedrooms for up to 216 students. Worple new students pursuing a full-time course Road has 57 ensuite bedrooms and the who live the furthest distance from their newly built Wilberforce Court has 70 chosen campus and whose applications standard bedrooms; both are located on are considered in the first allocation. campus. Some study bedrooms have been If you are looking for private adapted for disabled use. The flats at accommodation or are unsuccessful in Ashley Avenue accommodate up to 28 securing University accommodation at students in standard bedrooms and are Epsom, Farnham or Rochester please visit: situated in Epsom town centre. There are 60 standard bedrooms at Woodcote Side www.staywimi.com/UCA about a 20 minute walk from the campus, If you are coming to study at Canterbury supermarket and town centre. please visit:
UCA Farnham www.canterburystudenthousing.org.uk
Our sites offer flats and houses with Please be aware that University single and shared study bedrooms for up accommodation is a lively and vibrant to 376 students. There are a very small environment and the majority of residents number of ensuite bedrooms. The Main will be first year students who are Hall and the award-winning Student generally between 18 and 20 years old. Village are on campus. Some rooms in the Student Village have been adapted www.ucreative.ac.uk/accommodation for disabled use.
www.ucreative.ac.uk 69 Student life and student support
Our dedicated support network of services Ultimately we are here to make life as a is geared to help you with a range of UCA student better. There are plenty of issues. It’s our aim that you get the most ways to get involved with the Union and out of your studies, as well as a rewarding we’re here every step of the way. and memorable experience. For more information about the support we offer www.ucasu.com please go to Student advice www.ucreative.ac.uk/support We can provide information and Students’ Union assistance with financial and welfare issues, including student loans, budgeting UCA Students’ Union exists to represent and managing your finances, disputes every single student at UCA; by listening to with housemates or landlords and you we are able to represent your views identifying external support agencies and and make your time at university the best services. it can be. www.ucreative.ac.uk/sds/advice Because we are independent of the University we are able to act with no bias Student Disability and Specific in order to get the best for UCA students. Learning Difficulty (SpLD) Support We are politically engaged to make sure Our Disability & SpLD (Specific Learning your views are represented at the highest Difficulties) support team can advise you, levels and provide opportunities for you to from the time you make your first be involved too. These range from application to the completion of your elections and the student councils on course. We aim to provide support for campus to engaging in national debate. students with a range of disabilities or SpLDs including hearing impairment and But we’re not all about politics! We provide dyslexia. Support staff are matched to your opportunities to have a great time at UCA needs, to help you to fulfil your full by helping students run and participate in academic potential. a wide range of clubs and societies, along with offering a vibrant social life. www.ucreative.ac.uk/sds/disability
70 www.ucreative.ac.uk Care leavers Faith services We recognise that there are practical Multi-faith services are accessible at each concerns for young people leaving care of our campuses as part of the University’s and entering further and higher education. overall welfare provision. The service can We have designated members of staff, offer the following: covering all our campuses, to support looked-after-children and care leavers. If • Time and space to reflect informally you are a care leaver, a whole range of upon the wider aspects of life at your information and support is available to you place of work and study from application through to graduation. • Involvement with recreational and social For further details, please go to activities across the campuses www.ucreative.ac.uk/sds/care-leavers • Information about the activities of the main faith groups in the local area. Counselling The availability of the services at each Counsellors are available at all five campus is publicised in the Student Union campuses to help you with any personal and Student Advice Centres. concerns you may have. www.ucreative.ac.uk/faith Students seek counselling for a wide variety of reasons – perhaps because of a Equality and diversity sudden personal crisis or a need to deal with personal issues or changes. Whatever We are committed to promoting diversity the problem, the service is offered on a in our employment of staff and our confidential basis by professional recruitment of students, ensuring that counsellors. there is no discrimination or harassment on the grounds of disability, race, gender, Our Counsellors abide by the British sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic origin, Association for Counselling and religion, belief or age. Psychotherapy’s Code of Ethics & Practice. www.ucreative.ac.uk/sds/counselling
www.ucreative.ac.uk 71 How to find out more
We encourage you to visit our campuses, meet with our staff, see our students’ work and discover first-hand what we can offer you.
Open days Galleries We hold open days throughout the year We have five galleries that run exhibitions at each UCA campus. Organised around throughout the year, covering the work of course tours, our open days provide an external artists and our own staff and ideal opportunity for you to meet with students. Opening times and details of course staff and current students. We current exhibitions can be found online at also aim to give you a taste of student life through UCA campus tours, www.ucreative.ac.uk/galleries accommodation tours and presentations on finance and applications. Our open International visits days are popular and we encourage you If you’re an international student, don’t to book a place in advance at forget that we frequently travel to the countries from which we recruit. To find www.ucreative.ac.uk/opendays out when we might be in your country, please contact us. Student shows Each year our postgraduate students put T: +44 (0)1252 892838 on shows of their final work. These are a E: [email protected] great way for you to get a sense of the www.ucreative.ac.uk/international type and level of work undertaken by our students. We publish details of our Contact us postgraduate shows, and other student shows, on our website from April Our dedicated Enquiries Service is onwards. available to answer any queries you may have relating to entry requirements, how www.ucreative.ac.uk/ma-shows to apply or general information about courses and life at UCA.
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