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Studying at Bath Spa University Choose which course to study Corsham Court Centre Find out what it’s like to live in From Design to Creative Corsham/Wiltshire/SN13 0BZ the beautiful city of Bath and Writing – a full guide to all Postgraduate Newton Park Campus study at our environmentally of our courses to help you Newton St Loe/Bath/BA2 9BN award winning campuses choose the right subject for Sion Hill Campus where high quality teaching you and your future career. Prospectus Lansdown/Bath/BA1 5SF and research are priorities. 2012 Tel +44 (0)1225 875 875 Bath Spa University Introduction www.bathspa.ac.uk C o n t e n ts
Welcome 02 School of Art and Design 16 School of Education 28 School of Humanities School of Science Reasons to choose Curatorial Practice 18 Initial Teacher Education (PGCE) 30 and Cultural Industries 40 Society and Management 56 Bath Spa University 03 Design 19 Lifelong Learning 31 Creative Writing 41 Business and Management 58 Why Bath Spa University? 04 Design: Brand Development 20 Professional Practice Feature Filmmaking 42 Biology: Graduate Certificate Bath–A World Heritage Design: Ceramics 21 in Higher Education 32 Heritage Management 43 City 90 minutes from London 07 and Diploma 60 Design: Fashion and Textiles 22 Professional Master’s Programme 34 Literature and Landscape 44 The campuses: Corsham Geography: Graduate Certificate Design: Investigation Fashion Design 23 Counselling and Scriptwriting 45 and Diploma 61 Court, Newton Park and Sion Hill 08 Psychotherapy Practice 36 Fine Art 24 Travel and Nature Writing 46 Principles of Applied Going for green: environmental Mentoring and Coaching 36 issues 09 Investigating Crafts 25 Writing for Young People 47 Neuropsychology 62 Specific Learning Support: Student Services 10 Visual Communication 26 Difficulties/Dyslexia 37 School of Music and Performing Arts 48 Need more information? 63 Reaching out to businesses 10 Education Studies Helping your learning 11 International Education Creative Sound and Senior staff and Media Technology 50 governors 63 Students’ Union 11 and Global Citizenship 38 Performance 52 Index 63 Money matters: fees and funding 12 Songwriting 53 How to find us 64 Welcome international students 12 Performing Shakespeare 54 Corsham Court 64 Research Degrees 13 Theatre for Young Audiences 55
Welcome
Your choice of university for postgraduate study is an important one – one that will affect your future. Postgraduate study at Bath Spa has a number of attractive features. Our postgraduate awards have developed – often with invaluable input from experts within associated industries – to provide opportunities for advanced study that are both academically challenging and vocationally relevant.
From the Vice Chancellor The academic environment at Bath Professor Frank Morgan Spa University is supportive and friendly; – students’ academic and welfare needs Staff at Bath Spa University are passionate are addressed with professionalism and about their subjects, and considerable care. However Bath Spa is a forward- emphasis is placed on developing looking university, and our sound innovative methods of teaching and financial position – along with our assessment. They are actively engaged popularity with students – allows us in research and scholarship that directly to develop and expand with confidence. informs their teaching, and as a Our aim is to offer students a university postgraduate student you will receive experience that is distinctive, challenging professional and academic expertise and fulfilling. I hope that what we offer that is current – and often cutting-edge – matches your needs and ambitions. within a vigorous research culture. Bath Spa University Introduction 02 / 03 Reasons to choose Bath Spa University Te ac hin g-led research/ A great range of courses/Superb campuses/ Bath – A top student city/Staff who will care/Supportive and friendly/Accessible to all/Environmental ethos/ An international university/A long history of success Bath Spa University Introduction www.bathspa.ac.uk Why Bath Spa University?
01. Teaching-led research 04. Bath – a top student city Our research and scholarly activity is of direct benefit to 2 01 students, underpinning the 04 490,000m curriculum and improving of parkland in the city the student experience. A beautiful and unique city, with historic attractions, stunning 87% architecture, and excellent Score for teaching quality shopping. in the National Student Survey 2011 130+ Bars and pubs!
Bath also has a lively social scene, but is friendly, compact and a safe city.
02. Great range of courses 3rd 3rd top city in the UK for safety Bath Spa’s wide and expanding and security – Complete range of postgraduate awards University Guide 2009 02 provide opportunities for advanced study that are both academically challenging and vocationally relevant, leading to the awards of graduate 05. Environmental ethos certificate, graduate diploma, Staff and students at Bath Spa postgraduate certificate, share a strong environmental postgraduate diploma and 05 ethos – partly in response to Master’s degree (MA, MSc, our exceptionally beautiful MFA, MMus or MTeach). campuses that we’re looking after for future generations, In addition there is a lively but also to make sure that we research environment at Bath minimise our impact on the Spa, with opportunities for environment. supervised, original research leading to the degrees of MPhil and PhD. 7th Bath Spa is ranked 7th out of 142 UK universities in the People and Planet Green League 2011 for its environmental policy and performance. 03 Platinum Bath Spa has also achieved the Platinum Award under the national EcoCampus scheme (the highest level) along with the international environmental management quality standard ISO 14001.
06. Staff who care Our staff care about their students. They are accessible, 06 supportive and passionate about their subjects, and they put a lot of effort into developing dynamic approaches to teaching and assessment. They undertake what we call ‘teaching-led research’. That means they’re actively engaged in research 03. Superb campuses and scholarship so that their Visitors and students are often undergone major re- innovative, whilst blending professional and academic bowled over by our campuses. development and now has sympathetically with the expertise is current, and often How many universities boast some of the best facilities unique and historic setting cutting edge – but the research medieval buildings and their and equipment in the country. of the Newton Park campus. is of direct benefit to you. It’s own parkland estate? There’s relevant and applied, and used a unique mix of the old and the There are proposals for a Corsham Court is specialist to inform what, and how, you new, with state-of-the-art major development of the postgraduate and research are taught. modern facilities alongside Newton Park campus starting study centre with specialist historic buildings – providing in 2012, involving enhanced provision for music, “The teaching quality is an inspiring and safe study academic facilities, social songwriting, art and design, excellent, the lecturers really environment. amenities and additional ceramics, filmmaking, and get to know you and provide student accommodation on continuing professional great support” Our Art and Design campus campus. The new development development for teachers Jenny Brown, graduated 2010 at Sion Hill has recently will be sustainable and and educators. Bath Spa University Introduction 04 / 05
07. Supportive and friendly 09. International university This is what students often say We welcome students from when we ask them what they across the globe to study 07 like about Bath Spa University 09 here, and we have links with – there’s a real community feel. many universities abroad and are members of important 6,500 international organisations. Students; it’s small enough for Member of many important students to feel that they won’t international education get lost in the crowd – but large organisations including the enough to provide good facilities Association of Commonwealth and social activities. Universities, the European Association for International “Students like the ‘small and Education and the NAFSA: friendly’ atmosphere, which Association of International the university is anxious to Educators. retain.” The Times Good University Guide 2010
12. A long history of success 10 160 Years We can trace our history back over 160 years, to the original Bath School of Art
Our first trainee teachers trained here over 60 years ago. So while the University is modern and progressive, it builds on a long history of tradition and success in higher education.
08. Accessible to all We have built our success 08 on accessibility and equality of opportunity. The unique study and social environment we offer is a key factor in our distinctiveness and in our popularity. Variety Our students come from a range of backgrounds and cultures, from all parts of this country and from overseas, and with a variety of academic credentials.
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01 Bath Spa University Introduction 06 / 07 Bath–A World Heritage City 90 minutes from London
Bath is well known as one of the world’s 06 most beautiful cities. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site (England’s only qualifying city) with stunning architectural sites such as the Roman Baths, Royal Crescent, Circus, Pulteney Bridge and Bath Abbey.
The compact city centre has both 02 grand Georgian streets and small picturesque passageways, packed with small independent shops and stylish boutiques as well as the familiar big name stores.
Alongside award winning restaurants and quaint tea rooms you’ll find plenty of ‘student’ pubs, many featuring regularly in the Good Pub Guide.
Nightlife in Bath is good, with nightclubs, cinemas, the famous Theatre Royal, and a great comedy scene. There’s also an exciting live music scene including regular sessions, day and night, at many of the the International Music Festival, Bath 07 Corsham pubs, bars and clubs – with plenty of Film Festival, Bath Literature Festival . involvement from Bath Spa students! For sports enthusiasts there’s the famous Corsham is a small market town only Bath Rugby as well as Bath City Football 10 miles away from Bath and is the home Bath is well known as a city of festivals Club and Bath Races. to our postgraduate centre at the historic and the arts, with something for all tastes Corsham Court (see page 8). With Royal from Shakespeare to Jane Austen and Bath is well positioned with easy access Saxon origins, Corsham has an impressive books to boules! Bath Spa students to Bristol (also popular for nights out) collection of historic buildings. This play a key role in many of the festivals and only a 90 minute train journey includes the High Street consisting mostly (both main stream and fringe) including from London. of properties from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries where peacocks wander freely. There is a vibrant cultural life in Corsham 03 04 including the Fine Art collection at Corsham Court, Corsham Festival, the Global Village Film Festival and a thriving community arts scene. There is also a weekly market and a monthly farmers market adding to the quaint local feel of the town.
05 01 Bath’s Christmas 08 10 Market, image credit: Bath Tourism Plus 02 Shops 03 Rugby at the Rec 04 Parade Gardens 05 Georgian architecture 06 Thermae Spa, Bath 07 Pulteney Bridge 08 Corsham High Street 09 Corsham Town Hall 10 Corsham cottages 11 Corsham market
Corsham images courtesy of Corsham Town Council
09 11 Bath Spa University Introduction www.bathspa.ac.uk The campuses: Corsham Court Newton Park, and Sion Hill
We have two main campuses and a 02 dedicated postgraduate centre, all of which are exceptionally beautiful and historically significant, and provide an inspirational setting in which to study.
Corsham Court Centre The University’s Corsham Court Centre is a specialist postgraduate and research study centre. The vibrant community of postgraduate and research students benefit from a unique study environment with state-of-the-art modern facilities in a historic building dating originally from 1582, and surrounded by gardens landscaped by Capability Brown. Corsham Court is a stunning building that became the home of the Bath Academy of Art in 1946, and is retained by Bath Spa University on a long term lease. It is of great historic significance, and is owned by the Methuen family. The University has made a major investment in the Corsham Court Centre since 2009 to provide outstanding facilities for postgraduate study and research. This includes specialist provision for music, songwriting, art and design, ceramics, filmmaking, and continuing professional development for teachers and educators. There is a suite of high quality meeting rooms, studios, seminar rooms and a performance hall as well as individual study spaces and an open access computer room. There is a common area, with kitchen facilities available, providing an informal space to meet with other postgraduate students and colleagues. An historic outbuilding has been transformed into a state-of-the-art recording suite boasting every aspect of technology needed for professional film and recording.
Newton Park campus
This is the largest of the campuses and is 03 04 05 set on an amazing parkland estate (leased from the Duchy of Cornwall), in an idyllic rural setting – though only four miles from the city of Bath. The grounds were designed by the well-known landscape architect Capability Brown in the eighteenth century. There can’t be many universities in the UK that can rival this unique setting. As a student you might find yourself studying in the 14th century Castle tower (the oldest building on the campus and a scheduled ancient monument) or in the Creative Writing Centre in the Castle Gatehouse, another Sion Hill campus scheduled ancient monument, now Development plans Sion Hill campus is the main base for equipped with the very latest computers There are plans to implement a major the Bath School of Art and Design. Sion and audio visual equipment. building programme on the Newton Hill is in the Lansdown district of Bath – It’s not all ancient buildings. Park campus, starting in 2012. The a residential area of the city renowned The campus is a real mix of the old developments are very exciting and for its architecture, and within walking and the new – and the two aspects are will provide superb new facilities for distance of the city centre. sympathetically blended. The modern students from all disciplines, with A recent major refurbishment at 06 buildings include a new award-winning additional specialist digital and studio Sion Hill campus means that specialist Theatre and, a superb purpose-built resources for students planning to facilities and resources for art and design concert hall, the Michael Tippett Centre work in the broad range of creative students are amongst the most modern in – both offering music and arts enthusiasts and cultural industries. The plans the country. There are well equipped studios opportunities to see (and be involved in!) include new academic/learning space and workshops: graphic communication performances and exhibitions. and facilities; new social space; and studios, electronic media workshops, new residential accommodation studios for art, textiles and sculpture, 01 for students. workshops for wood, etching, lithography and silkscreen. You’ll also enjoy the friendly community atmosphere at Sion Hill. It is in a very peaceful setting (despite it closeness to the city centre), and is surrounded by its own attractively landscaped gardens; the 01 Entrance to Sion Hill campus at dusk site originally belonged to a nineteenth 02 Corsham Court Postgraduate Centre century mansion house, and although 03 Lake at Newton Park 04 Corsham Court gardens (© Olaf Lange) the house was destroyed in the war, the 05-06 Drawings of the new campus development ornamental grounds remain. Bath Spa University Introduction 08 / 09 Going for green: environmental issues
Students and staff share a strong 03 environmental ethos and are very aware of their responsibilities to achieve sustainability and help reduce climate change.
Our environmental policy commits 02 the University to continuous improvement in environmental EcoCampus performance across a range of Platinum Award activities including waste management, reduction and recycling, energy and carbon reduction, minimisation of emissions and discharges, developing sustainable transport, construction and refurbishment and sustainable purchasing. It also includes best practice in grounds management techniques.
01 The University has an excellent record of environmental performance and 7th in Green improvement: League 2011 We’ve achieved a Platinum award (the highest level) under the national EcoCampus scheme, along with the international environmental management quality standard ISO 14001.
We’ve achieved our highest rank so far in the 2011 People and Planet Green League Green League table – We’re now recycling over 60% of our 7th out of 142 UK universities. waste on campus, and are on target to increase this to 70% in another year.
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There’s a Carbon Reduction Management Plan in place to enable us to achieve 50% reduction in our carbon emissions by 2020.
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We promote an awareness of the environment and best environmental practice through our courses where possible.
We make no use of animals in our teaching and research other than the observation and monitoring of mammals and birds in their natural habitats for conservation purposes. 01 Lake at Newton 03 Main House Park campus 04 Environmental 02 Peacocks at Corsham champions Court (© Olaf Lange) 05 Students bikes Bath Spa University Introduction www.bathspa.ac.uk Support: Reaching out Student Services to businesses
You’ll want your time at university to be We aim to enhance the employability of all enjoyable, worthwhile, and full of new our graduates by ensuring that as a Bath Spa challenges and experiences. We have a graduate you are well positioned and fully range of specialist services to help you equipped to identify – and set foot on – the achieve your goals. right career path for you.
01 As a student graduating from Bath Spa which can help you develop a range of skills University, you’ll leave with much more and experiences to support your career than a degree in a specific area of study. development. Placements and internships Throughout your course you’ll acquire and are also available on an extra-curricular develop a whole range of transferable skills, basis, both during term-time and vacation practical experience and industry insights periods. Our careers and business support that will make you highly attractive to teams broker opportunities with businesses employers. in the region, offering a wide range of We’ll encourage you to start thinking opportunities for learning in a professional about making the most of your future right setting. from the start of your university life by accessing the professional support and Work with an industry mentor wide ranging resources available to you A growing team of business experts are on throughout the year – and even after you hand to work with you as “industry mentors”, graduate. providing you with the opportunity to be Careers professionals and industry supported by a trained professional working experts work in partnership with lecturers in a field of your interest including the and tutors to help develop key employability creative and cultural, health, science skills throughout your degree. They also and heritage sectors. work closely with employers and other industry partners to maximise both Supporting student enterprise opportunities for students and awareness Developing graduate entrepreneurs of our graduates’ talents and achievements. As well as a host of possibilities within your degree to develop creative, innovative and Excellent careers support enterprising ideas, many opportunities exist Our team of careers professionals is elsewhere at Bath Spa to unleash your available to guide you in the right direction entrepreneurial spirit. The University’s and suggest ways to help you make Business Plan Competition inspires informed career decisions. Help with and rewards excellent new concepts and everything from CVs and job search business start-up proposals from students. strategies to assessment centres and even “InSparation” is a network offering support, module choice is available throughout the advice and developmental opportunities What’s on offer? reasonable adjustments to help you get Childcare year, with a range of one-to-one sessions, for enterprising Bath Spa students. Advice, guidance, information and ideas the most out of your studies and to meet If you’re a parent of children under five you small group workshops, mock interviews, on a range of issues, provided by specialist your learning support entitlement. Contact can arrange for them to be looked after at presentations and e-guidance options 01 staff who are happy to work with you, us to discuss your needs with us as soon Oak Tree Day Nursery at our Newton Park available to give you the right kind of support, sharing their expertise, bouncing ideas as possible, so that we can make sure that campus. Children of staff and the local how you want it and when you want it. around and guiding you (when you need we are doing everything we can to help you community use the Nursery too, and guidance) through the enormous range of enjoy your life and studies at Bath Spa. there’s a happy, secure and stimulating First to hear about industry opportunities activities and issues that you will encounter. environment. The Nursery is in two An array of physical and electronic It makes no difference whether Medical service adjoining houses, arranged for children resources helps you keep up-to-date with you’re a full or part-time student, UK, EU Our Medical Service is provided by a local of different ages (six months to two years, news of the latest vacancies, recruitment or international – you’ll find a professional GP practice and provides the full range of and two to five years). The services and schemes and other opportunities. Recent team of people with information, guidance medical services from dealing with illness activities provided are tailored to the needs developments in specific degree-related and advice to hand. Email: studentsupport and injury to providing services such as of the babies and children, enabling them and employment sectors are available to @bathspa.ac.uk contraception, vaccination, repeat to explore and learn through play. The you, as are the psychometric assessment prescriptions and general health checks. standards of care and nursery education tools, as used by major graduate recruiters. Well-being and money advice We encourage all students to register. are high – this was confirmed by an Ofsted Our careers website and regular eBulletin Student Support advisors provide You can attend one of the surgeries on inspection in 2009. The report comments: is a rich source of information useful information, support and guidance campus or make appointments at the ‘ Children are happy and confident in a well before, during and after your period of study. on a range of issues, such as study- practice health centre in town at other managed, stimulating care and learning related difficulties; finances; relationship times. Either way you’ll have a choice environment’. Network with employers 02 problems; loneliness; and mental and of doctor or nurse appointment. You can book morning, afternoon or You’ll be introduced to graduate recruiters, physical health. Student Support operates full day sessions, with student rates in the local, regional and national employers and a combination of drop-in sessions and 02 range of £18.75 to £19.75 per morning or business experts through a range of industry pre-bookable appointments. We won’t afternoon session, and £37.50 to £39.50 events on campus. Through careers events make decisions for you – but we’ll help for a full day, depending on the age of and industry mentors to employer you to make them for yourself. the child. presentations and networking evenings, you’ll have the opportunity to get up close To find out more and personal with the likes of the BBC, Full details at www.bathspa.ac.uk/ NHS, Future Publishing, Ordnance Survey, For more info services/day-nursery/ or call the Day Hilton Hotels and many more, enabling email welfare@ Nursery Manager on 01225 875590 you to find out about the many options open to you when you graduate. With bathspa.ac.uk over two-thirds of our graduates gaining employment in the south west of England, we work closely with local and regional Disabled students, including people Faith services employers to source and create the best with dyslexia In a multi-faith environment we welcome graduate-level jobs, placements and Our aim is to make Bath Spa University students of all faiths – and none. Members internships for our students. accessible to everyone and we welcome of the University Chaplaincy team visit the applications from disabled students. The campus each week for a drop-in session Gain essential work experience 01 Networking Student Support team will work with you and special events are organised to 01 Off to a lecture Many subjects have placements or industry with employers and other university staff to make coincide with specific seasons. 02 Mature students get plenty of support projects as part of their degree programmes, 02 Resources Bath Spa University Introduction 10 / 11 Helping your Students’ learning Union
As a ‘teaching-led’ university we put a lot Both postgraduate and undergraduate of effort into helping you get the most from students automatically become members your studies. You’ll expect first rate lecturers, of the Students’ Union when they start at but you’ll also get modern, well equipped Bath Spa, so you can take advantage of libraries and IT suites; innovative teaching all our facilities and services. methods; the chance to study abroad – and Students’ Union Volunteering – Just V much more! The Students’ Union is run by the students, Many students choose to give their time, for the students, so we would love you to energy and skills to helping local, national 01 04 get involved and add the benefit of your and international volunteering organisations experience as a postgrad student. – and in doing so develop themselves personally and professionally. What does the Union do? The Students’ Union is a democratic Sports organisation which ensures that the student We have 20 active sports teams of which voice is listened to and acted upon. We six compete in BUCS (British University support, develop and entertain students & College Sport) at various levels and in outside of their studies. different leagues. These teams include The day-to-day running of the Union football, rugby, hockey, badminton, netball is overseen by three Sabbatical Officers and American football. The teams play 05 (the Union President, the Vice-President either mixed or as individual sexes, but no Communications & Campaigns, and the matter what your standard, you will always Vice-President Activities & Participation) be able to join in with the team in some way. and four part-time Student Officers. The Union employs full-time staff who help run the Media facilities and services provided by the Union, A new student media hub, SpaLife, covers and who are always on hand to help you out. TV, podcast radio and a termly magazine. SpaLife offers a mix of news, features, How can the Union help you? reviews, and home-grown talent, so is Like any other Union, we ensure that our always relevant to student life at Bath Spa. members are getting a fair deal, whether Whilst the Students’ Union provides training 02 03 If you’re a disabled student you’ll that is from the University, your employer and support, every element of SpaLife is get help on an individual basis to or even from your landlord. Our welfare and led by the students including editing, make sure we best meet your library and advice services can help with a whole range production, presenting and producing information needs. Check our website at: of student-related matters, from academic the content. www.bathspa.ac.uk/services/library appeals to personal issues. We are here as your first port of call with any problems you Further info Computer facilities might have – and we have the first-hand Check us out at: www.bathspasu.co.uk There are several hundred networked experience to be able to help. E: [email protected] computers for students to use, many in open access rooms which are available in the Facilities evenings and at weekends as well during We have a new fitness suite built on campus the day. You can use these computers for with top of the range equipment. There’s word-processing, spreadsheets, database also a Union shop at Newton Park and the work, email and access to the Internet. And SU runs a bar at each site. you’ll find user-friendly online help pages covering all aspects of IT at the University. 01–02 In the Students’ Union There are also specialised computer 03 Relaxing on campus facilities across the campuses for subjects Newton Park Libraries Study areas such as music, art and design, and media 01 Each campus has a library with stock that The libraries are divided into separate production. We have both PCs and Apple holds all of the reflects the courses that are taught there. areas for different kinds of study. If you Macs as well as wireless connections major event The postgraduate centre at Corsham want to work in peace there are “amber for laptops. Court has a fully stocked library with a zones” where we ask people to talk quietly When you become a Bath Spa student nights; with a wide range of books and journals, and a and not use mobiles. If you really need to you’ll be given your own email account full-time librarian available during the concentrate you can work in a “red zone” – which you can keep for life! capacity of 700, week to help with your enquiries. where we ask people not to talk or use At Bath School of Art and Design, equipment that might disturb others. Online learning it is one of the the University has invested in equipping a However, at other times you’ll need to work As a teaching-led university we make largest venues central new specialist library facility which with others on group projects, so we’ve set sure we’re right up to date with the most 02 opened at Sion Hill in 2009. Here you can aside “green zones” where you can talk, advanced teaching methods, and all in Bath itself. seek creative inspiration from a wealth of use mobile phones, eat and drink. During students have access to our online virtual specialist books, up-to-date journals as 2010/11 the front area of Newton Park learning environment, ‘Minerva’. Minerva well as collections of exhibition catalogues, Library has been completely re-designed allows your lecturers to send course The main highlights of the week are on a slides and DVDs. and refurbished to improve services and materials to you via the web – and makes Wednesday and Friday night, when we host At Newton Park, our larger campus facilities for students. One of the main these easy for you to find. It also provides our popular Flirt! and alternative events. For library, there is a comprehensive collection aims is to provide additional collaborative various other features such as discussion the larger Union events at Sion Hill, such as of books, journals, CDs and DVDs covering learning space and laptop docking points boards which allow you to have online the annual Summer Ball, a large marquee the wide range of subjects we teach. If you’re as well as a vibrant, modern and welcoming conversations with others from your is used. an Education student there is a separate reception area and library information point. course, and lets you submit coursework collection of resources to use when you are This exciting new study space will open electronically. Activities 03 on teaching placements in schools. As well 24/7 in term-time. The Students’ Union manages all of the as traditional library materials there’s also clubs and societies within the University. a large and increasing range of electronic Getting help News and information about these can be resources such as electronic journals, Professionally qualified librarians run found on the SU website – www.bathspasu. electronic books and online services to help sessions that teach you how to find and use co.uk. Cheerleading, hip-hop dance, jogging, you access high quality information for your information – helping you to produce good board sports, RAG… If none of the societies university work. Both libraries benefit quality work but saving you time as well. We 01-02 School of Art and Design on offer sound like your cup of tea, you can 03 Specialist facilities from state-of-the-art self-service equipment also offer one-to-one tutorials, an electronic 04 Performance Hall at Corsham Court always start your own society – just find ten and photocopying and printing facilities. enquiry service and advice when you need it. 05 High-tech studio pod at Corsham Court like-minded people to join you. Bath Spa University Introduction www.bathspa.ac.uk Money matters: fees and funding
Postgraduate fees - 1 x Master of Fine Art (MFA) 20012/13 Provisional fees - 1 x MA Design (Ceramics) UK/EU Fees Please note that all fees are provisional at - 1 x MA Design (Fashion and Textiles) the time of printing, and may be subject to or MA Design (Investigating Full-time Part-time Half module Single module Double module change. Please visit www.bathspa.ac.uk/ Fashion Design) services/finance/students/ for the latest - 1 x MMus (Songwriting) Research degrees (Mphil/Phd) £3,765 £840 N/a N/a N/a information on confirmed fees. The master’s awards are under the AHRC All taught postgraduate degrees £4,565 N/a £385 £765 £1,525 Channel Islands and Isle of Man residents Professional Preparation Master’s Scheme. with the following exceptions: All Channel Islands and Isle of Man The PPM scheme supports students residents studying for taught postgraduate undertaking a course that focuses MA Heritage Management £4,875 N/a N/a £815 £1,625 courses must pay a one-off registration on developing high level skills and fee of £650 in addition to UK/EU fees. competencies for professional practice. MA Travel and Nature Writing £4,875 N/a N/a £815 £1,625 For further information on these Postgraduate funding studentships, and any other studentships MA Business and Management £8,280 £4,140 N/a N/a N/a There is no statutory funding in the form available, please visit www.bathspa.ac.uk/ of student loans for postgraduate students schools/graduate-school/ MA Feature Filmmaking £10,350 £5,175 N/a N/a N/a unless you are undertaking a PGCE course. However, there are a number of sources National scholarship fund for teachers International Fees where postgraduate students can apply The new national scholarship fund is for funding. For further information please open to all teachers in England with Research degrees (Mphil/Phd) £10,030 – £11,095 N/a N/a N/a N/a visit: www.bathspa.ac.uk/services/ qualified teacher status (QTS), currently student-services/current-students/ employed in eligible schools. The All taught postgraduate degrees £10,030 – £12,205 N/a N/a N/a N/a student-support-service/money/ scholarship focuses on four main priority post-grad-students.asp areas; maths, English, science and special educational needs (SEN). Those Trusts and Charities Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) - This is called notional postgraduate For further information on financial taking awards within the Professional There are a number of educational - Non-means tested allowances for income (NPI) and in 2011/12 was set at assistance to support your learning, Master’s Programme may be eligible to charities and trusts to which postgraduate disabled students in higher education. £161 per week for single students and please visit: apply for a scholarship. Visit the TDA to students can apply to for grants. Often, - They help to pay for extra costs that £129 for students with dependents; www.direct.gov.uk/adultlearning find out more: www.tda.gov.uk/teacher/ financial help is reserved for students you may have to pay, when attending - ALF cannot provide assistance with T: 0800 100900 developing-career.aspx from poorer backgrounds, or for those your course, as a direct result of your core living costs – these should be who’ve achieved academic excellence. disability – such as the costs of a met by the student via the NPI; AHRC Studentships Professional and Career You can search for funding from non-medical helper, major items - ALF cannot be used to meet the Bath Spa University have AHRC (Arts Development Loans educational trusts on the Educational of specialist equipment, travel and cost of tuition fees; and Humanities Research Council) A Professional and Career Development Grants Advisory Service (EGAS) website other costs. - Applications to ALF can be considered funded studentships covering tuition Loan could help you pay for learning www.family-action.org.uk/section. - For more information on DSAs and how for expenditure over and above core fees and student maintenance in the that enhances your job skills or career aspx?id=1037 to apply, go to: www.direct.gov.uk/en/ living costs; following subjects: prospects. It’s a bank loan, so you’ll have DisabledPeople/EducationAndTraining to pay it back once you’ve left your course. The Bath Spa University Student Useful websites - 1x PhD Creative Writing You can borrow up to £10k and you don’t Support Service is able to give you Access to Learning Fund (ALF) www.direct.gov.uk/adultlearning - 2 x MA Creative Writing or MA Writing pay interest for the period when you’re advice and support with your application. - Full time postgraduate students are www.prospects.ac.uk for Young People or MA Scriptwriting in learning. Email: [email protected] expected to have a certain level of income; Welcome international students
postgraduate courses, notably those in International Student Profile Enquiries Bath has many international links and each the area of creative writing, have higher Brittany McComas, MA Scriptwriting Please do contact us if you have any year many students from all over the world English requirements. – further questions. “Before coming to Bath Spa I was a come to live and study in what is one of the Help and advice professional actor and singer. I recorded Bath Spa University Throughout your application we will take in Nashville TN, and I even worked for Newton Park Campus world’s most beautiful cities. great care to make sure you have all the Disney. I have a BFA in Theatre from West Newton St. Loe, Bath information and support you need to start Virginia University. After an independent BA2 9BN, United Kingdom Bath Spa receives students from about PhD programmes at Bath Spa University, your studies here confidently. This includes study in the U.S. with playwright Frank Telephone: +44 (0)1225 875875 40 different countries and has links with attracted by our high academic standards advice on immigration procedures, travel, Gagliano, I thought Bath Spa to be the Email: [email protected] universities and colleges in Europe, the Far and individual attention. accommodation or any other information perfect place to further my education East and the United States. We are part of you might need. [email protected] in scriptwriting. several ERASMUS and SOCRATES networks Entry requirements Bath Spa is one of the most in Europe, and have non-European students The course profiles in this prospectus will Where do you want to live? beautiful places on earth. The faculty exchange programmes with universities in show general entry requirements for Choosing the right place to live is an and administration made me feel at Australia, USA, Malaysia, Japan and China. individual courses. In addition, non-native important decision for international home here, and I knew I would receive A growing number of international English speakers will need TOEFL 550 or students. The most popular choice is to a well rounded education in Scriptwriting. Useful students are taking MA, MSc and M Phil/ IELTS 6.5 or equivalent minimum. Some stay with a family (known as home stay). The tutors are amazing, and they don’t Other options include staying on campus spoon feed you. In the industry of writing, websites or in shared private rented accommodation you can’t expect jobs to fall in your lap. for funding in Bath, although availability for these The course has taught me to make depends on the course you are applying contacts and to go out and find everything British Council to study. We can advise you on how to find I am looking for. Thus far it has already www.britishcouncil.org suitable accommodation, but you will need helped my career in ways that I never to finalise the arrangements yourself. thought possible. Education UK [email protected] Bath Spa offers an immense selection www.educationuk.org of things to do when you are not studying; www.studentcashpoint.co.uk Fees and scholarships from donating a day on the weekend to For information on fees and funding, charity; participating in the Bath festivals; US Federal Aid please see above. Students are advised to to sports; the Student’s Union nights; or www.fafsa.ed.gov contact the British Council in their own filming a television series with industry country to find out about scholarships professionals. I loved every minute I Scholarships for which are available. We are approved by spent at Bath Spa.” Japanese students the US Department of Education to certify www.jasso.go.jp student Federal Aid loans. www.cwaj.org Bath Spa University Introduction 12 / 13 Research Degrees
02 05 01 The library 02 Quiet study Bath Spa offers opportunities for 03 Main House 04 University Theatre supervised, original research leading 05 Graduation day to the degrees of MPhil and PhD.
The University has research activity University has approved Research Centres across all of its academic schools with and Research Groups (details of which particular strengths, as measured in can be viewed from our main webpage). the independent Research Assessment The University particularly welcomes Exercise (RAE2008 – see www.rae.ac.uk), PhD enquiries from potential applicants in Art and Design, English and Creative whose research may complement that Writing, History, Music, and Psychology. of the Centres and Groups. All ten subject areas entered in RAE2008 Work at research degree level is one 03 (Biological Sciences, Geography, of the most demanding and rewarding Psychology, Education, English and experiences in higher education. It involves Creative Writing, Study of Religions, direct engagement with a chosen field History, Art and Design, and of study and, through this, the chance to Communication, Cultural and Media explore ideas and problems in considerable Studies) were judged to be contributing depth, and innovative ways. Successful internationally recognised research completion of an MPhil or a PhD represents (2* and above). In five areas (Music, the fulfilment of a person’s intellectual Communication, Cultural and Media potential and a major life achievement. Studies, Art and Design, History and English) some of the research was Graduate School awarded a world-leading rating (4*). Bath Spa organises its research degree The University has received research programme through the Graduate School, grants and/or doctoral bursaries from based at the University’s Corsham Centre. 04 the Arts and Humanities Research The Graduate School works closely with Graduate School with the aim of promoting on investigating and developing innovative Council (AHRC) in History, English, other Schools and all research supervisors. research student work within the university learning and knowledge technology (LKT) Creative Writing, Art and Design, Study It also provides training, funding for and beyond. All students are invited to join pedagogical solutions that ICT resources of Religions, Geography and Music. seminars/symposiums and a travel the group on enrolment. can provide for learners as critical thinking The University has also gained research conference fund for students presenting tools. CEIT researches new ways of grants from other major national funders, papers at conferences. Research strengths understanding the epistemology of LKT such as the Natural Environment Research Every research student can expect Bath Spa has particular research strengths and proffers learning theories and CPD Council (NERC), The Leverhulme Trust, close, experienced supervision and access in the following areas: solutions that enable technology British Academy, Arts Council, and to good library resources. In turn, they integration and infusion into and across many other charitable or commercial are expected to demonstrate consistent Bath School of Art and Design the education and training curriculum. organisations. For details of current progress in their work and a commitment In Art and Design we offer supervision The Centre aims to broaden knowledge scholarships and/or bursaries available to the pursuit of excellence. Study can be in ‘practice-led’ research degrees that of theory, policy and practice within the please see the University’s main website. on either a full or part-time basis. The involve creative work in the following fields of ICT education, e-Learning, Where there are a number of academic University expects its research students to disciplines: fine art, which includes e-scaffolding and knowledge elicitation staff and doctoral researchers working engage with the wider research environment painting, sculpture and video; graphic systems, Communities of Practice (CoP), together around common themes the both within the University and beyond. design; ceramics; fashion and textile design; virtual learning and reality learning illustration; new media; photography; environments. digital imaging; electronic printmaking; 01 Working with academics interactive film; electronic design; media Centre for Research in Early Scientific Bath Spa provides a lively research art practice. Learning (CRESL): The centre promotes environment in which to study. The both individual and collaborative research University is big enough to offer variety and and scholarship in primary and early years diversity; yet small enough for a personal science education. CRESL fosters a approach. There is space here to think, Every research collaborative approach to developing create and move forward. There is also projects, including applications for the opportunity to work with academics student can external funding, to broaden knowledge of who are not just authoritative, but also expect close, theory and practice within the field of passionate about their subject. experienced early scientific learning and related fields. Assessment methods Centre for Research in Arts Education A research degree is examined through supervision and (CRAE): The centre embraces a broad the presentation of a thesis and through range of disciplines within the arts, a viva voce examination. For more details access to good promoting inter-disciplinary arts and about the requirements, please visit the library resources. arts educational practice, and research. Graduate School website, and especially The Centre draws upon the distinctive the Handbook to be found there. In turn, they are specialisms at Bath Spa University, The word length requirement for operating across the full spectrum of an MPhil in science or art and design expected to visual and performing arts: creative writing, is 20,000 words. For a PhD it is 40,000 dance, drama, music, visual art including words. In humanities, social science and demonstrate traditional media and techniques, education the word length requirement consistent multimedia, video and installation. is a maximum of 40,000 for an MPhil and 80,000 for a PhD. It is possible to submit progress in their Children and the Environment Research creative work as part of the thesis, in which Centre (CERC): The centre promotes case the word requirement is adjusted. work and a both individual and collaborative research The creative and written elements of the enterprise and scholarship in the field thesis are carefully related. It is expected commitment to of children and their environments. It that the written element will set the the pursuit of contributes to a body of knowledge of creative work in its relevant theoretical, critical, philosophical, socio-cultural historical, critical or design context. excellence. and political discussion within the field in addition to the international debate about Bath Spa University PhD Research School of Education improving children’s well-being within the Network (RESNET) In the School of Education we are able contexts of education and community. The RESNET is a research student network to offer supervision in research degrees Centre adopts a collaborative approach run by and for Bath Spa University research linked to the following research centres: to developing projects and engages with students. The network arranges seminars, an international network of professionals a research student support group and an Centre for Educational Innovation and and academics. annual symposium. It also liaises with the Technology (CEIT): The centre focuses Bath Spa University Introduction www.bathspa.ac.uk Research Degrees Continued
Centre for Research into Inclusion are encouraged to play an active role 01 18th –19th century cultural history of Bath seeks to place this challenge in a broad and Vulnerable Learners (CRIVL): within the Centre’s research-based and from poverty to the media. context, investigating developments in The centre builds on work over recent professional activities. The Book, Text and The department encourages research the cultural industries, new conceptions years by an emerging group of researchers Place Research Centre particularly proposals and its research strengths of media audiences, shifting patterns in the School of Science, Society and welcomes postgraduate research on the include areas in early modern British/ of media representation and identities Management) working within the fields following subjects: literature and landscape; European social, political and cultural and the role of transmedia and digital of inclusion and vulnerable learners the cultural history of early modern London; history; modern British history; Irish communication in shaping public (particularly those with dyslexia). print and manuscript culture; editorial history; the history of the Islamic world; understanding of key issues. CRIVL’s research focuses upon the theory and practice; femininity and the history of intelligence and espionage; As a PhD student you will be part development of interprofessional and masculinity; national identities in the George Orwell, gender, politics and identity. of a thriving research community which interdisciplinary networks across children’s Atlantic Archipelago; empire and The Department’s History and Culture has received national and international and other agencies. The Centre is unique colonialism in the eighteenth century; Research Centre holds conferences and recognition. You will have the opportunity in its drive to: explore shifting policy and Daniel Defoe; and the eighteenth- Writing Research Centre has distinctive hosts other research activities. Encouraging to participate in a variety of activities cultures of integrated services; identify century novel. expertise in the work of William Styron, applications exploring the particular including an annual research conference, theoretical perspectives arising from the Ian McEwan and J. H. Prynne; women’s questions based around the concepts a seminar series and research training, drive for social and educational inclusivity Contemporary Writing Research Centre: writing (particularly Sylvia Plath, Margaret of History and Culture, especially with and enjoy the networking opportunities and the Every Child Matters Agenda; The Centre for Contemporary Writing Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates); Irish regard to gender and the urban experience offered by the Department and the School. and bring together researchers from is the largest of the School’s research literature and diasporic identity; modernism over time, and to the practical application The University offers a Postgraduate frameworks beyond education to centres. Cross-disciplinary in character, (especially Wyndham Lewis and Virginia of History and Culture through Heritage, Certificate in Teaching and Learning in collaborate in the examination of it involves staff and students from Woolf); and crime fiction (with leading the cultural history of the town and Higher Education and the Department issues such as, race, disability, poverty Creative Writing, Publishing, and English scholarship on Patricia Highsmith). questions around gender, space, will support you in pursuing this award, and health within a multi-cultural Literature. Its aims are to encourage, The Centre welcomes applications place and environment. providing you with a mentor and the Research programmes can also develop and support the research of its that will build on and extend these We would welcome applicants with opportunity to gain teaching experience be offered in the areas of education members; to produce new creative and areas of expertise. research proposals closely related to in your specialist field. policy and practice, international critical works for publication, broadcast these research areas. The centre welcomes PhD applications education, sociology of education and other forms of dissemination; and History and Culture Research Centre in the following areas: Alcohol or drugs and mathematics education. to nurture and sustain a rich research The Department of History at Bath Spa Media Futures Research Centre in the media; Animation; Contemporary environment. In RAE 2008, a large majority has active research clusters in British The Media Futures Research Centre is an celebrity culture; Digital media preservation; School of Humanities of the School’s research in these subjects and Irish history (early modern and interdisciplinary network of scholars and Feminism, femininity and popular media and Cultural Industries was classified as internationally excellent modern), international history, and the graduate students based in the Department culture; Film and British national identity; The School of Humanities and Cultural or internationally recognised; some was history of gender, heritage and the urban of Film and Media Production and School Horror culture; Masculinity in the media; Industries can offer supervision in English classified as world-leading. experience. 80% of the history submission of Humanities and Cultural Industries. Media and cultural industries policy and Literature; Creative Writing; History; Study The Centre has particular strengths to RAE 2008 was judged to be internationally The Centre supports research on all work; Media education; Media fandom of Religions; and Communications, in fiction, poetry, scriptwriting, and nature recognised, internationally significant or areas of media representation, reception and subculture; Media policy; Metal Cultural and Media Studies. Doctoral writing. Subject specific support and the world leading. The department currently and production with an emphasis on studies; Motherhood and the maternal supervision is arranged within our development of our PhD community is has an active group of doctoral students contemporary and future developments. role; News reporting and journalism; specialist Research Centres. given through our monthly Contemporary working on a range of subjects, extending The media landscape is dynamic and Popular music industries and journalism; Writing PhD Research Forum. The Centre from the British army in the nineteenth understanding the commercial, cultural Videogames and the cultures of play; Book, Text and Place (1500–1750) provides opportunities for its postgraduate century, 16th century queenship in Navarre, and political impacts of current and future World cinema. Research Centre: The Book, Text and students through its involvement in through various topics redefining the change is a critical challenge. The Centre Place (1500–1750) Research Centre is International Research Partnership dedicated to exploring literary and involving Columbia College, Chicago. 02 cultural history from the sixteenth to the It promotes major events at NAWE and eighteenth century. The Centre is AWP conferences. The Centre sponsors composed of Dr Ian Gadd, Dr Stephen a strand of events at the Bath Literature Gregg, Dr Tracey Hill and Dr Christopher Festival and the Stand Up Poetry Series Ivic, scholars who have secured major of public poetry readings in Bath. fellowships from both British and North PhD students have been involved American sources and whose work has in the touring production of Elizabeth appeared in prestigious presses and Wright’s play Vanessa and Virginia and journals. Our doctoral students are active an associated conference about the researchers, presenting and publishing Bloomsbury Group. Future opportunities their work, with an impressive record in for postgraduate involvement will include attracting research grants; the Centre has MIX, a conference on all aspects of twice secured full time AHRC funding for transmedia writing; and a conference its PhD students. Postgraduate students and lifelong learning seminar series at the London Irish Women’s Centre, funded 03 by Ellen McWilliams AHRC Fellowship (the fellowship also supports Dr McWilliams’ monograph, Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction).
Creative Writing: Candidates are invited to submit proposals for PhD projects that combine a full length manuscript (fiction, poems, play-scripts or literary non- fiction) with an element of supporting or contextualising research. The School has some of the country’s best postgraduate programmes in Creative Writing, with an exceptionally strong team of publishing novelists, poets, scriptwriters, children’s 04 writers and writers of literary non-fiction. Many of our students have been successful in publishing their work and receiving literary prizes for it. We have an excellent record of securing AHRC funding for PhD students in this subject. The AHRC has awarded us full-time block grants for two PhD in Creative Writing students; these will be advertised for October 2012 and October 2013 starts.
English Literature: Candidates may propose English Literature PhD projects in any literary field. The Contemporary Bath Spa University Introduction 14 / 15
Writing and Environment Research Centre theatre and popular literature, literature science, food science and technology, and Representation and Development 06 The Writing and Environment Research and climate change, and author-focused human nutrition, public health nutrition, and Sustainability. Research includes both Centre offers an exceptional level of expertise studies on Jean Rhys and Joan Didion. geography, GIS, sociology, health studies, individual and collaborative projects, and in the fields of ecocriticism and nature English PhD researchers also run a psychology and business & management. includes traditional academic research writing, with academics working as critics, monthly English PhD Research Forum and pedagogic research. creative writers (non-fiction writers, and play an active role in Departmental Department of Science: Research in Physical geographers undertake novelists and poets), writer-activists Research Days. Biology is conducted through its Ecology research in the application of and pedagogical researchers. Bath Spa Research strengths in the Religions, Research group, and is wide ranging from palaeoenvironmental indicators University has been in many ways the Philosophies and Ethics team include: algal flora of the Severn Estuary, to otter to reconstruct past environments, pioneer institution for ecocriticism in Indian religions in the modern period; diet on the Somerset Levels, and to spanning marine, coastal, and terrestrial Britain, teaching the first modules in that East-West encounter from the nineteenth occupational and domestic exposure environments, using a variety of indicators field, publishing some of the first books and century onwards; religious education to fungal contaminants. One of its key such as microfossils (e.g. pollen and articles, and founding the UK branch of the in national and international policy and strengths is in Ecology where there is diatoms), macrofossils (e.g. molluscs), Association for the Study of Literature and practice; religions of South Asian origin expertise in habitat creation, algal flora sedimentology, and geochemistry. Environment. Thanks to our long-standing in education; contemporary spiritualities of tufa formations, mammal and bird Research in GIS covers a wide range commitment to teaching environmental such as Paganism in education; Theravada ecology, ecological impact assessment of applications of spatial technologies to humanities, our library holdings have Buddhism; Buddhism in diaspora; Buddhism and risk assessment. Much of this work environmental and social issues such as strength in depth, which complements the in interfaith; ethics of war, peacebuilding is done in close association with local and environmental mapping and monitoring 07 interests and commitments of our staff. and reconciliation; Buddhism, politics regional nature conservation organisations systems, coastal zone management and As the home of two former Chairs of & violence; contemporary Buddhist and is closely connected with consultancy disabilities and accessibility to open space. the Association for the Study of Literature movements in Asia (India, China, Korea work and postgraduate teaching and the Environment (UK and Ireland) and and Japan) ; ecological, existential and undertaken by staff. The Department of Business the site for four previous conferences on feminist philosophies; and contemporary Management: The Department has ecocriticism and animal studies, Bath Spa religion and spiritualities including particular strengths in Public Trust and has an impressive record in hosting and Paganism and women’s spiritualities. Confidence in Relationship Marketing; facilitating research in this field. Since 2008, We would welcome applicants with Research students modern conceptualisations of Business the WERC has also supported the publication research proposals closely related to to Business marketing; the application of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, these research areas. wishing to pursue of Market Orientation constructs; Ethical, ensuring that researchers here are kept an academic Governance and Data Protection issues; abreast of the latest developments. Scholars School of Music and Performing Arts integrating knowledge management in the Centre have long-standing connections The School offers supervision in Music career can take activities into management information with ASLE in the USA, and with branches as a research area, and we particularly systems and exploration of innovative and associated organisations in Australia, welcome practice-led proposals that the University’s ‘build-to-order’ manufacturing concepts; Canada, Europe, India, China and are incorporate a portfolio of creative work. to mention but a few. actively engaged in collaborative As a research centre, 80% of our Higher Education international research projects. submission was recognised Academy (HEA) Registration period We would welcome applicants wishing to internationally in terms of originality, pursue research in the theory and practice significance and rigour, with 10% judged accredited PGCert MPhil of ecocriticism, nature writing and all other as being world-leading in the latest RAE Full-time: kinds of environmental creative writing, exercise. Recent funded research projects in Professional -Maximum: 36 months; environmental journalism, animal studies include an investigation into the -Minimum: 18 months. and the pedagogy of the environmental composition and performance practice of Learning in Higher humanities. text scores, visual music, and songwriting Education at no Part-time: in the higher education curriculum. All our -Maximum: 48 months; Application supervision and Writing for Young People Research Centre staff are active as practitioners, and full extra cost. -Minimum: 30 months. procedures access to good Candidates are invited to submit proposals details of their specific research interests library resources. for PhD projects that combine the and profiles, as well as information about PhD All potential - Work at research manuscript of a novel for young people the research environment in the School, Food and Nutrition research strengths Full-time: candidates are degree level is one (8–12 or YA fiction) with an element of can be found at the school website from in the areas of microbiology, food quality, -Maximum: 60 months; encouraged to of the most supporting or contextualising research. the main bathspa.ac.uk webpage. food safety and control, human nutrition, -Minimum: 24 months. discuss their demanding and The School has a well-established and public health nutrition and health and proposed field of rewarding highly regarded specialist postgraduate Research can be supported in the well-being. The subject also has strengths Part-time: interest with the experiences in programme, with a strong team of published following areas in particular: in human nutrition in particular type -Maximum: 84 months; School or higher education. writers for Young People and an excellent composition (electro-acoustic and 2 diabetes, food product and process -Minimum: 36 months. Department - Big enough to offer track record of student publication. instrumental), sonic art, experimental development, development of smart concerned before variety and music, visual music, contemporary labels and industrial applications of Entry requirements making a formal diversity; yet small Other areas of postgraduate research music, contemporary performance and immobilised enzymes. The subject has Applicants would normally as a application. enough for a within the School performance practice, music analysis, also conducted several consultancy minimum hold a first or upper second Please contact the personal approach. Staff in the Department of English also historical performance, early notations, projects for the food and nutrition sector, class honours degree from a UK HEI, Graduate School if - Research students have specific expertise in modernism, preparing critical and performing editions, including the food industry, through its or its equivalent. A relevant master’s you are not certain wishing to pursue gothic studies, the work of Bram Stoker, medieval and renaissance musicology, Food Business Centre, which houses the degree is also preferred. Applicants who you should an academic career the Victorian novel, and postcolonial early music, and ethnomusicology. Centre for Food Product Development . should note that they will normally be approach. Details can take the literatures. The Department has a thriving Psychology conducts its research required to undertake research training about entry University’s Higher community of PhD researchers working School of Science, Society and Management through its Psychological Research as part of their studies unless they can procedures are given Education Academy on topics including narratives of animal- The School can offer supervision for MPhil Group which has particular strengths in demonstrate equivalent prior training on the Graduate (HEA) accredited human metamorphosis, early modern and PhD in biology, environmental evolutionary psychology and Parkinson’s (eg through a relevant Master’s School area of the PGCert in disease. Other strengths include programme). Students register as University’s website. Professional 05 lateralization of emotions and language, an Advanced Postgraduate in the first Application forms are Learning in Higher chronic health illness and rehabilitation instance. Application for formal available from the Education at no and hearing damage in motorcyclists. registration for either the degree of Graduate School extra cost. Researchers in the group also have PhD or MPhil takes place within six Administrator. All strengths in offender profiling and months, subject to a detailed and applications must Enquiries extra-legal defendant characteristics, satisfactory proposal. be accompanied by psychosexual counseling and therapy and International students who do not copies of academic Please contact: history of psychological therapy services. have English as their first language may certificates, a Allison Dagger, have to undertake an IELTS or TOEFL photograph, the Graduate School The Department of Social Sciences: language test. The minimum accepted names of two Administrator The Department conducts research and standard would be 6.5 on the IELTS scale. academic referees E: a.dagger@ consultancy in Geography, GIS, Sociology A higher standard for admission may be and a sample of bathspa.ac.uk and Health Studies, through its Communities required in some fields. written work. or via the other and Social Identities Research Group and contact details given 01 Working on campus Key features on the Graduate Changing Landscapes Research Group . 02 Lecture Human geographers are involved in 03 Antique gateway detail School website: a wide range of research projects, which 04 The lake at Newton Park campus - Every research www.bathspa.ac.uk/ 05 Corsham Court campus student can expect schools/graduate- can be grouped into two major, and 06 Discussion overlapping, themes: Landscape, Identity 07 Using the Glass Room in the Library for group work close, experienced school Bath Spa University School of Art and Design www.bathspa.ac.uk School of Art and Design
Pradeep Sharma, Head of School “ Founded more than 160 years ago, the Bath School of Art and Design has a successful history and an international reputation for creativity and innovation. As part of the School, you will work with a wide range of internationally recognised art and design practitioners and thinkers. Dynamic teaching, excellent facilities and an atelier-style approach will give you an exciting specialist learning environment in which to achieve your potential.” Taught postgraduate degrees Curatorial Practice Design: Brand Development Design: Ceramics Design: Fashion and Textiles Design: Investigating Fashion Design Fine Art Investigating Crafts Visual Communication Bath Spa University School of Art and Design 16 / 17 Bath Spa University School of Art and Design www.bathspa.ac.uk Curatorial Practice
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03 04 and Design and have This innovative course benefits from access to all Art and Design related collaborative relationships with museums facilities on the Sion Hill campus. The MA and galleries of national and international base is at Corsham significance, notably the Holburne Museum, Court, our campus for postgraduate Bath; Arnolfini, Bristol; Spike Island, Bristol; practice and and Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. research. Key features
- Collaborative Why choose this course? course is by negotiated project. Completion Cultures of Display practice history, theory and context, Awards relationships with It covers a wide range of curatorial of the first two modules on the course leads The module looks at public and private effectively employing skill in analysis museums and approaches, from management of the to the award of the Postgraduate Certificate, modes of display. As well as considering and synthesis as necessary. - Master of Arts (MA) galleries historical collection to creative curating and completion of the first four modules a range of museum and gallery practices, - The ability to independently plan and Curatorial Practice - Access to in-house of contemporary art, craft and design. leads to the award of the Postgraduate it includes studies in domestic display, implement research activities in the - Postgraduate museum and The course takes a broad view of curatorial Diploma. Subsequent completion of the commercial display and digital display. subject fields of curatorial practice, Diploma (PGDip) gallery archives practice and the programme includes MA double module leads to the award of demonstrating professionalism, Curatorial Practice and specialised consideration of activities in the private MA Curatorial Practice. Master’s Project self-direction and originality. - Postgraduate libraries for domain of the domestic interior, and in The Master’s Project is capable of - The ability to effectively propose and Certificate (PGCert) research study virtual reality, as well as commercial Modules accommodating a variety of approaches curate exhibitions, drawing on research Curatorial Practice - Opportunities to treatments, such as shop window display. Research Methodologies for assessment. Examples might include and understanding. curate exhibitions Part One introduces generic research (but are not restricted to) the traditional - The ability to initiate and contribute Course length - Offers of Course structure and content methodologies with Part Two considering written dissertation, perhaps drawing on to debate and discussion in relation internships The course is offered in both full and subject specific material, analysis and historical or archival case studies, research to curatorial practice. - MA full-time three to graduating part-time modes. It is normally one year, evaluation techniques. into and/or curating of an exhibition in - The capacity to advance knowledge, trimesters (one students (three trimesters) in duration in full time a particular venue, and forms of digital learning and skills in the subject fields calendar year) mode or six trimesters in part-time mode. The Role of the Curator production, such as the construction of of curatorial practice. - MA part-time six Applications The first two trimesters comprise taught The Role of the Curator considers the a museum or gallery specific web site. trimesters sessions and assessed projects, while the changing role of the curator and the ‘politics’ Employability - PG Dip full-time Application forms Master’s Project in the final part of the of curating. It addresses developments in Teaching methods and resources Typical career destinations include: two trimesters (one are available on the critical theory and their impact on curatorial The MA adopts a ‘practice-led’ approach; academic year) website and for any 05 practices and includes topics such as while some sessions are delivered by - Curatorial work in museums - PG Dip part-time admissions enquires representing communities, ethnicities, university academics at the Corsham and galleries four trimesters please contact: gender issues, ‘interventions’, gallery Court Centre, others are delivered by our - Freelance curatorship - PG Cert full-time T: +44 (0)1225 875624 learning, the ‘post-museum’ and collaborators and relate to particular case - Galleries/Arts administration one trimester E: admissions@ creative curating. studies or collections. There are field trips - Public Art - PG Cert part-time bathspa.ac.uk to museums and galleries in the Bath/ - Critical writing, such as exhibition two trimesters Collections and Collecting Bristol area and opportunities to work reviews and catalogue essays Enquiries This element of the course considers alongside museum and gallery professionals Fees private activities in the domestic interior, on selected in-house activities. ‘Real life’ Please contact as well as public collections and their projects can be pursued in response to Please see page course director management. It covers material culture, assessment assignments, especially 12 for full details. Dr Johanna Dahn the urge to collect, the collection as shrine, in relation to the final ‘Master’s Project’ 01 Pieces of Russia Exhibition at the BRLSI, Queen’s Square Bath 1st – 4th June 2011. Curated by T: +44 (0)1225 875694 oral history and its methods, object studies, double module. students from MA Curatorial Practice. Course location E: j.dahn@ research in the archiving and management 02 Detail of installation at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin bathspa.ac.uk of historical collections, with the collection Assessment 03 Detail of Shards by Jo Dahn 04 Detail of exhibition by Sue Bradley at Bath School You will be registered at the Holburne Museum in Bath providing - The ability to deal with complex of Art and Design Gallery in the School of Art an important case study. issues in the area of curatorial 05 Detail from Spoiled by Elaine Wilson Bath Spa University School of Art and Design 18 / 19 Design Brand Development / Ceramics / Fashion and Textiles / Investigating Fashion Design
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- MA Design: Brand Design courses are Development/ taught at Sion Hill Ceramics/Fashion and Corsham Court. and Textiles/ Investigating Fashion Investigating Design is also taught Fashion Design. at the Fashion - PGDip Design: Museum in Bath. Brand Development Ceramics is also /Ceramics/Fashion available via a distance and Textiles/ learning route. Investigating Fashion Design. Fees - PGCert Design: Brand Development Please see page /Ceramics/Fashion 12 for full details. and Textiles/ Investigating Funding Fashion Design. AHRC Studentships Course length available – see page 12 for full details - MA full-time: three trimesters (one Applications calendar year) - MA part-time: six Application forms trimesters are available on the - PGDip full-time: two website and for any trimesters (one admissions enquires academic year) please contact: - PGDip part-time: T: +44 (0)1225 875624 four trimesters E: admissions@ - PGCert full-time: bathspa.ac.uk one trimester - PGCert part-time: two trimesters
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Why choose this course? by two further specialist modules in You will choose one of these specialist trimester 2. Finally an individually routes, but students from all four routes negotiated study forming a body of will explore together common principles work, in trimester 3, completes the MA. in the philosophy and approach to design. You will then focus on the diversity and Teaching methods and resources individuality of your particular design Specialist facilities include computer specialism. studios with over 70 Macs, as well as flatbed and transparency scanners. Course structure and content There is a recently re-equipped digital The course is offered in both full and media studio. Ceramics students have part-time modes. It is normally one workspaces in well equipped workshops, calendar year (three trimesters) in including CAD facilities. There is an duration in full-time mode, or six excellent glaze laboratory and a range trimesters in part-time mode (this of electric and gas-fired kilns, including may be extended by negotiation). outdoor firing facilities for salt and raku. 04 There is also a dedicated space and kilns The course is in three parts: for large-scale work. Fashion and Textiles students benefit from specialist studio - The Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) spaces for both digital and screen printing, in trimester 1 knitting, weaving, embroidery, laser cutting - The Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) and pattern cutting, using the latest digital in trimester 2 technology for CAD/CAM. - Master of Arts (MA) in trimester 3 All students have access to workshops in photography, sound and video, etching During the first two trimesters full-time and litho, as well as the specialist Art and students are expected to give four days Design library. a week to the course and part-timers two days a week (in each case through a Entry requirements mixture of taught and self-study hours). The normal entry qualification is a good All teaching is supported by email and undergraduate degree or its recognised you will have a personal tutor and ready equivalent in appropriate fields of study 01 Bath and North East Somerset Council access to the course director. (such as design; business; media; ceramics; –Fashion Museum/ For full-time students, trimesters 1 textiles; art and design history) and by Photography by and 2 involve four modules leading to interview. Candidates with a good honours James Davis and Shaw & Shaw. the PGDip. All students take a common degree in an unrelated discipline and/or 02 Krestina Juel Orpwood, module, Research Methodologies, in the with relevant background experience will MA Design: Ceramics first trimester. At the same time you will also be considered. 03 Colour swatches 04 Emma Ley, MA Design: undertake the first module of your chosen Fashion and Textiles design discipline in trimester 1, followed Bath Spa University School of Art and Design www.bathspa.ac.uk Design: Brand Development
“This is a course I would definitely recommend 02 to any undergraduate or alike who wishes to develop their skills and enhance their knowledge in one of the most important aspects of graphic design.” – James MacTavish, MA Design: Brand Development
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Why choose this course? The final trimester, leading to the MA, Master’s Project 03 Brand Development aims to develop the comprises an individually negotiated study, This Master’s Project double module analytical, strategic and creative thinking which is research based, resulting in a offers students a choice of emphasis processes together with the skills related body of work for assessment and supervised in their studies either concentrating to brand creation, identity, positioning and at interim stages by tutorial. on creative or management issues marketing. A choice of pathways is available at within a comprehensive body of work Graduates from design, business this stage allowing you to focus your that draws on the knowledge and and media programmes can take this study on either creative design or brand experience gained through the opportunity to gain true insights and management issues. taught programme. skills in the development of successful brands. Design and business procedures Modules Tutors are brought together to interact in a Research Methodologies Paul Minott (course leader); Graham positive and productive way to simulate Part One introduces generic research McLaren; Julia Moszkowicz. In addition, best practice in organisations committed methodologies with Part Two considering specialist professionals are invited to to brand creation and development. subject specific material, analysis and lecture on particular aspects of the evaluation techniques. programme. These are drawn from Course structure and content creative design and brand management The course combines theory and practice The Development of Brand Identity roles within major corporations and through assignments, case studies, Defining a brand, case studies of successful organisations and independent research, analysis, planning, reporting and unsuccessful brands,an analysis of consultancies. and the production of creative solutions the factors which contribute to the creation to given problems. You will explore issues and positioning of brands, including brand Assessment methods such as corporate and brand history; mapping and market analysis. Normal requirements are the Employability 01 Seminar Enquiries methods of research, analysis and presentation of a body of work for The creative industries are increasingly 02 Student's branding work evaluation; issues related to sustainability, History and Sustainability of Brands each of the four taught modules. looking for individuals who are not only 03 Branding seminar Please contact marketing, graphic and packaging design; An historical survey of brands and their Typically this would include a report able to produce creative solutions to Paul Minott: new product development; and design evolution, a study of media strategies which is supported by research and problems but are able to ground these T: +44 (0)1225 876101 management. Talks by visiting professionals in support of brands together with a investigation with evidence of statistical in the needs of the market. The course E: p.minott@ with roles in design/brand management in study of ethical, environmental and data accompanied by visual work opens up career possibilities in design bathspa.ac.uk industry or independent consultancies are legislative issues. demonstrating the strategic and creative consultancies, advertising agencies, an important element of the programme. approach to the assignment. The final television companies, publishing, The first two trimesters will involve a New Product Development (NPD) MA dissertation requires the submission consumer-led industries and programme of lectures, seminars, group Needs driven methodologies for of a body of work that clearly and manufacturers, the retail sector, critiques, assignments, research and creating new brands and identifying comprehensively addresses all the the public service sector including independent study. You will take four NPD opportunities together with ideas issues agreed and identified in the government departments, charitable modules, leading to the Postgraduate generation techniques in a group initial proposal prior to commencement. and civic organisations, research Diploma (PGDip). dynamic leading to strategic approaches. There are no written examinations. organisations and marketing companies. Bath Spa University School of Art and Design 20 / 21 Design: Ceramics
Ceramics aims to develop individual 01 abilities within the subject, whether through practice or historical or theoretical study. Approaches range from sculpture and installation through to studio ceramics and design for products.
Why choose this course? Initiating Creative Practice The course is distinctive in offering you A practice module, where students the opportunity to specialise in ceramics produce work based upon a programme as a medium allied to a breadth of negotiated and agreed with staff, designed possibilities, and establishing negotiated to set an agenda and working plan. individual modes of practice. Developing Creative Practice Course structure and content A practice module, where students In the first trimester you will undertake make work based on visual research on a a module in research methodologies in programme negotiated and agreed with conjunction with students from other staff to develop studio work, awareness design disciplines. You will also be and understanding of relevant concepts. establishing and initiating your studio based creative practice through individual Analysis of Contemporary Context and group tutorials and critiques. This A module where the practitioner engages teaching will cover issues of technique in a contextual consideration of their work together with aesthetic and design ideas by referring to cultural, critical, theoretical and their interpretation and context within and historical perspectives employing contemporary practice. This approach to advanced research methods alongside studio work will be further developed in development of a proposed programme the second trimester, alongside an for the final MA module. individual analysis of the relevant theoretical, cultural and social context Advanced Studio Practice for your work. The four modules taken You are expected to submit a in the first two trimesters lead to the comprehensive body of creative ceramic postgraduate diploma (PGDip). work which meets the agreed objectives, The final trimester, leading to the accompanied by documentation of visual MA, comprises an individually negotiated and other research. It should include a and self-initiated body of work building on written evaluation of the ‘journey’ and 02 03 the knowledge and skills already acquired. outcomes of your project, and aspirations You will be supervised by tutorial through for future developments. to completion. The project will be selected from options giving an emphasis either Teaching methods and resources to individual expression or a more Theoretical elements will be delivered design-based approach. as a concurrent contextualisation of your practical work along with study of the Distance learning route relevant research methodologies. In this Students may opt to take some or all way your practical work is firmly based of the modules on this course by distance in the theoretical and critical awareness learning. Teaching and tutorial support of its context and potential market. will be delivered via a combination of computer-based learning and campus Tutors visits, with assessment matched to Jane Gibson Mdes RCA (design and the particular interests and needs of ceramic production and curating); Keith individual students. Harrison MA RCA (time-based installation); This route is open to all students Nick Lees MA Cardiff (tableware, ceramic on the course. You may pursue both sculpture, critical writing); Jo Dahn MA practice based and/or historical PhD UWA (history and theory); Graham approaches to the study of ceramics McLaren PhD RCA; Malcolm Ross-White 04 Student profile Enquiries by this means. The route will be of particular (drawing). These staff will be supported Daniel O’Riordan, MA Design: Ceramics interest to those geographically distant by an extensive team of part-time staff, – Please contact from Bath, or who would find attending whose wide range of expertise is available “I have a degree in 3D design and have also Keith Harrison: campus regularly difficult. on a regular basis. There is also a completed a PGCE, and before starting this T: +44 (0)1225 875782 The technology used is simple and programme of visiting artists each year. course I was lecturing in Art and Design. E: k.harrison@ accessible. You will need access to I chose to do the MA in Ceramics at Bath bathspa.ac.uk a computer linked to the internet as Assessment methods Spa as the course has a reputation for high materials are delivered through a The four taught modules in trimesters quality teaching and facilities, as well as standard web browser. We welcome one and two are assessed through studio offering the opportunities to develop my enquiries from anyone interested in this exhibition of work with a supporting work. The course provided the flexibility to option, and will be delighted to answer statement, or the presentation of a truly explore my personal and professional any questions you may have. document, accompanied in both cases interests. Bath Spa is my local university and by evidence of appropriate research. I particularly liked the compact, dynamic Modules The final module for the MA is assessed and well-resourced environment in which to Research Methodologies through exhibition or exposition, according study. This qualification has already helped This module is intended to provide students to the nature of the work, of all work for my career, and since finishing I have opened with a strong sense of methodological the module or a record of it, addressing a Design company, shown at trade shows, purpose when thinking in, through the issues agreed in the initial proposal. participated in national touring exhibitions, and about their practice. Research There are no written examinations. sold products to Italian design companies Methodologies will outline established and have also become a senior lecturer. I 01 Daniel O'Riordan models of academic enquiry – both Employability would advise anyone considering the 02 Mirka Golden-Hann practical and intellectual – proposing Typical career destinations include exhibiting, Ceramics MA course to be as dynamic and 03 Glaze Research, Ceramics Studios ways to gather, analyse and communicate ceramic design and museum work, arts experimental as possible, break boundaries at Corsham Court a wide range of data and ideas. administration, public art and research. and do your own thing.” 04 Studio work in practice Bath Spa University School of Art and Design www.bathspa.ac.uk Design: Fashion and Textiles
01 Student Profile Since finishing my MA I have set up my Caroline Ritchie, business, Corita Rose, which specialises MA Design: Fashion and Textiles in fabrics and furniture. The knowledge – gained during the course, and the time to “By the end of my undergraduate degree in hone my skills, was more important to me Creative Arts I had only just worked out a than the postgraduate qualification as I am way that I wanted produce work, so I chose running my own company. However, later to do the MA Design: Fashion and Textiles in life the qualification may be of more course to help develop my skills and significance.” establish a good working practice. Bath Spa University has a great textiles department and is in a fab location. There are excellent facilities, a wealth of knowledge in the department, and 01 Amor Sofa – Enquiries Caroline Ritchie a friendly and supportive student body 02 Embroidery – and atmosphere. Jo Chambers Please contact I did the course part-time, which was 03 Cork – Sam Pickard Frances Turner: 04 Bookends or Doorstops a real benefit to me. The first year I mainly – Sarah Nicol T: +44 (0)1225 876134 concentrated on establishing my working 05 Hoop and Bird cushion E: f.turner@ routine. During the second year I feel that – Caroline Ritchie bathspa.ac.uk I had time to explore new techniques and skills in order to give another dimension to my work.
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05 Why choose this course? Modules Marketing Skills comprises of lectures, Fashion and Textiles aims to develop Research Methodologies seminars and research; the Development the creative process for designers in Part One introduces generic methodologies of Product and Product Ideas is negotiated conjunction with valuable marketing with Part Two considering subject specific by each student. The final trimester, and business skills. data retrieval analysis and evaluation leading to the MA, involves a negotiated The course is aimed at ambitious techniques. study which you will propose. The study designers, designer-makers or textile will be research based resulting in a body artists who wish to develop opportunities The Development of Product, of work for assessment. within the profession and who may wish Market Research and Product Ideas to set up on their own or with others in Developing ideas technically and Tutors small teams. aesthetically, in-depth investigation into Frances Turner (course leader); Kerry Curtis; techniques and researching to market. Professor John Miles; Sue Bradley; Tim Course structure and content Parry-Williams; Louise Pickles. These staff You will be introduced to research skills Marketing Skills are supported by a team of visiting lecturers. and methods, product development, Marketing and Business skills – developing design management and methods, an understanding of marketing requirements Assessment methods with marketing and business skills. for textile designers and artists. The PGCert is assessed by studio The emphasis of the course is learning exhibition and/or portfolio presentation how best to present ideas, and where Product Sampling and Development with a marketing report. The PGDip and how to place them in the market. and Research involves a written report including market The course is developed through Initial product sampling techniques and analysis of your chosen product field. seminars, lectures, tutorials, visiting investigation. Developing and progressing Practical work is presented by studio speakers, group critiques, market ideas to enable the creation of new work and/or portfolio. For the MA you will research and personal research. products. Range planning. present a cohesive body of creative work, You are encouraged to trial a product supported by written work. in the market. This may be through first Teaching methods and resources hand experience, or through working with The first trimester (PGCert) consists of Employability studios and agents for designers, shops two modules. Research Methodologies The main aim of the course is for and craft markets (for designer makers), consists of a taught programme of students to identify their own employment or with galleries or public spaces (for lectures, seminars, group critiques, opportunities. Other possibilities may textile artists). and assignments. You will also negotiate include textile design, product or fashion Students propose a route of study a programme of study for the Product, design, retail or sales and marketing through the course to explore and Market Research and Product Ideas opportunities, teaching, trend prediction research a chosen area of textiles in module. The emphasis at this level is and promotion,or further research in knit, print, weave, or embroidery for on ideas. During the second trimester industry or education, and exhibiting in fashion or interiors, or in fashion design. (PGDip) you will take two further modules: galleries as a textile artist. Bath Spa University School of Art and Design 22 / 23 Design: Investigating Fashion Design
A fast-paced, dynamic and demanding 02 course with a strong emphasis on creativity and innovation underpinned with strong technical skills.
Why choose this course? to include PowerPoint presentations, Investigating Fashion Design is concerned image location, virtual learning with the study, analysis and written critique environments such as Minerva and of historical and contemporary dress in a Blackboard, photography and video work. museum environment. The second element investigates the roles Researchers on this course will engage and responsibilities of the higher education with the wealth of fashionable dress lecturer, which will address the ethics and resources held in the internationally duties of the post. renowned Fashion Museum, Bath. The course aims to enable students to work Master’s Project independently with the collection, whilst The Master’s Project double module attending supporting lecture and seminar offers students the opportunity to programmes. These will develop an investigate an area of the museum understanding of fashion and its contexts collection in detail culminating in a through objects, and museum based study. 20,000 word thesis. Students will work with curators and museum professionals as well as Tutors academics and designers in order to Dr Jo Turney (Senior Lecturer, Dept. fuse theory and practice and to develop of Research, Critical and Postgraduate innovative approaches to the study, display Studies); Rosemary Harden (Curator, and dissemination of fashionable dress. Fashion Museum, Bath). Visiting tutors Additionally, students are encouraged will also constitute the teaching staff. to present their research in a public arena and are offered the opportunity to study Assessment methods for a Postgraduate Certificate in All course work is assessed by project and Professional Learning. written submission. There are no written examinations. On successful completion Course structure and content of the course students should be able to: The course is offered in conjunction with the Fashion Museum in Bath and - discuss and analyse fashionable dress incorporates a lecture and seminar in context; programme. The provision of teaching - critically investigate and research and learning opportunities within the theoretical and object based approaches museum affords students access to to fashion, textiles and dress; a working museum environment, where - articulate and demonstrate an they will gain hands-on experience of understanding of the purpose data collection and collation, garment and workings of the contemporary handling, dressing and photography. museum and collections; Students will have access to the whole - undertake significant object based museum collection. Combined with a research demonstrating appropriate rigorous academic taught programme, methodologies; 03 04 students will also benefit from the - communicate innovative approaches to teaching and learning offered within the study of fashion, textiles and dress; the Bath School of Art and Design. - use a variety of technology and media; Group visits to other national collections - write and communicate research will constitute part of the course. projects effectively; - produce a research project suitable for Modules publication, presentation or exhibition. Research Methodologies Part One introduces generic research Employability methodologies with Part Two considering The course aims to encourage the subject specific material, analysis and engagement of students in professional evaluation techniques. activities, developing skills suitable for the following careers: Material Evidence 1 The module, split into two inter-related - Dress historian segments, aims to introduce students - Academic in a further or higher to professional practice in museums and education institution learning and teaching environments. This - Fashion writer will largely consist of independent study - Archives and museums supported by Blackboard (online learning). Enquiries Key features Fashion History and Theory 01 This element of the course is intended Please contact - Access to a to introduce students to the key issues Dr Jo Turney: world renowned arising from fashionable dress from the T: +44 (0)1225 875552 collection of past in the present. Consisting of a taught E: j.turney@ fashionable dress lecture and seminar programme, students bathspa.ac.uk - Conduct and will be encouraged to discuss a variety of present original topics pertinent to an analysis of both research to a historical and contemporary dress. wide audience - Publish your Material Evidence 2 research project The module is split into two parts which 01–04 Bath and North East - Understand address practical and ethical issues Somerset Council – key issues relating arising from working in the public sector. Fashion Museum. to teaching in a Photography by The first element addresses the use of James Davis and higher education learning technology in Higher Education: Shaw & Shaw. environment Bath Spa University School of Art and Design www.bathspa.ac.uk Fine Art
Why choose this course? - Ed Whittaker – an artist who uses 01 Awards Course location Fine Art is a wide ranging field of photography and has exhibited in Europe activity, from painting to electronic and and the UK and has work in many - Master of Fine - Sion Hill and live art, and has grown rapidly in recent collections including the IWM. Art (MFA) Corsham Court years to become a key cultural factor - Camilla Wilson – a painter who has - Postgraduate campuses as demonstrated by the growth in the exhibited in Europe and the UK Diploma (PG Dip) audience for art and in the media attention - Postgraduate Key features it attracts. These staff will be supported by other Certificate (PG Cert) The MFA is a studio based programme members of the fine art staff and a team - Studio work dealing with the whole range of Fine Art, of visiting lecturers, who in recent years Course length and contextual/ from painting and sculpture to video have included: Glenn Brown; John Chilver; exhibition study and live art, each supported by good Mathieu Copeland; Stephen Cox; Andrew - MFA full-time: taught by practising facilities and taught by nationally and Cross; Kathy Dalwood; Natalie van Doxell; three trimesters artists exhibiting internationally practicing artists and Peter Fillingham; Mick Finch; Stephen (one calendar year) nationally and including discussion of artists’ practice, Foster; Matt Franks; Martin Grimmer; - MFA part-time: six internationally. exhibiting and curating. Alexis Harding; Gerard Hemsworth; Tania trimesters (two - Link to Artist Kovats; Wendy Lewis; Sandie Macrae; Student Profile space – it meant I could work on huge calendar years) Teacher Scheme. Course structure and content Craig Martin; Mariele Neudecker; Lydia Halcrow, MFA Fine Art canvases which was really liberating! - PG Dip full-time: On this practice-based Master’s Kay Pallister; Barry Schwabsky; Rosie – two trimesters (one Applications programme an individual programme Snell; Andrew Southall; Michael Stubbs; “I chose to do the Master of Fine Art at Bath Since finishing the course I have been academic year) of studio work, negotiated with staff, Xa Sturgis; Tom Trevor; Paul Winstanley; Spa because of the reputation of the course painting full time – working from an artist - PG Dip part-time: Application forms will re-establish and then develop your John Wood and Richard Woods. and the tutors. Also being based in Bath studio in Bristol. I have also been exhibiting four trimesters are available on the work, potentially to professional, was a big bonus and linked closely to my work and developing my practice. - PG Cert full-time: website and for any exhibiting level. Progress is guided by both Assessment methods practice. I combined starting the course Completing this course has given me one trimester admissions enquires scheduled and optional individual Examination of each stage of the studio with a permanent move to the South West. credibility to apply for residencies, - PG Cert part-time: please contact: tutorials, and group critiques of work. element of the course is by exhibition and Bath Spa has some of the most beautiful competitions and opportunities to exhibit. I two trimesters T: +44 (0)1225 875624 The context for studio work is students make an oral/visual presentation and inspiring campuses of any university now have a network of artists that I met E: admissions@ informed and clarified by a programme of their ‘position’ at the Postgraduate and the School of Art and Design has through the course – we get together and Fees bathspa.ac.uk of seminars and discussions which set Diploma stage. recently been refurbished with excellent critique each other’s work, and put on out a wide range of practice, both in facilities. I particularly liked the small size shows together. Please see page Enquiries terms of individual artists’ work and Entry requirements of the course, it meant it was more intimate 12 for full details. contemporary museum, gallery, exhibiting A good first degree in Fine Art or with regular contact with tutors – not only If you are considering doing the MFA I Please contact and curating activity. its equivalent in terms of learning or the formal meetings, but some of my most would advise you to get together a strong course leader This programme is taught with experience. Fundamentally you will be valuable conversations were with tutors portfolio of work, research other artists, Funding Professor contributions from the staff and from selected on your ability, as demonstrated passing through the studio space. This was and have an idea of how you want to Maria Lalic: artists and directors and curators of in a portfolio and interview, to succeed on invaluable and something I think larger art develop your practice and what you want to AHRC Studentships T: +44 (0)1225 875818 galleries of national and international the course. schools might not provide. The visiting get out of the course.” available – see page E: m.lalic@ standing. The programme content varies lecturers were great, as was the studio 12 for full details bathspa.ac.uk from year to year according to material Employability available in exhibition in Bristol, London Bath Fine Art graduates from BA and and other centres to which study visits MFA courses have worked and exhibited 03 04 occur on a regular basis – there are widely as professional artists, had work currently six to eight study visits to London purchased by the Tate and other each year between October and June institutions, represented the UK in as well as optional participation in two exhibitions such as the Sao Paulo overseas study visits each year, currently Biennale and have been nominated to Paris and New York or Berlin. for the Turner Prize. Graduates work as curators and gallery professionals Teaching methods and resources in public and private galleries and for The programme runs for a 45 week, arts councils and organisations, and three trimester year, from October to write for journals. We anticipate that with January, February to June and June to the collaboration of the Artist Teacher September. Full-time students will have Scheme there will be regular 05 studio spaces in the Bath School of Art recruitment from the profession and and Design. Part-time students provide that a number of graduates will return their own working facilities in the Bath to teaching or become lecturers. area and the University may be able to assist with these arrangements. The course is organised in conjunction with the Artist Teachers Scheme (itself 01 Lydia Halcrow organised by the National Society for 02 Inigo Rose Education in Art and Design with support 03 Ceinwen Birrel 04 Ursula Buston from the Arts Council) through which 05 Toby Poolman specialist art teachers prepare for 06 Alison Armitage Master’s level study. Specialist facilities include computer studios with over 70 Macs, as well as 02 flatbed and transparency scanners. There 06 is a recently re-equipped digital media studio. All students have access to workshops in photography, sound and video, etching and litho, as well as the specialist Art and Design library.
Tutors and visiting lecturers - Daniel Allen – Head of Department - Roger Clarke – a sculptor who has exhibited in Europe and the UK. - Robert Fearns – a video maker who has presented his work in Europe and the UK. - Maria Lalic – Professor of Painting, who has exhibited worldwide and has work in collections including those of the Tate, V&A, ACE museums in Germany and Austria, DTI and Deutschebank. Bath Spa University School of Art and Design 24/ 25 Investigating Crafts
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This unique course supports those wanting to contemporary or historical craft Assessment methods Awards Key features activity including websites, DVD media. Assessment on the course is intended to write about, teach or curate Craft in both to not only support and test your learning, - Master of Arts (MA) - A unique course its contemporary and historical contexts. Teaching methods and resources but to support you in a number of Investigating Crafts offering a new “…critical debate is vital to ensure the potential routes to future employment. - Postgraduate dimension to this continued renewal of the sector… there Whilst on the course you may experience Diploma (PGDip) aspect of the Why choose this course? Investigating Craft Practice are high numbers of the public interested the following types of assessment: Investigating Crafts creative industries The central aim of the course is to produce Using the methodological tools and in Craft [but] perceptions and media - Postgraduate - Opportunities to graduates who are adept at placing Craft the historical understanding provided coverage tend to undervalue craft” - A written assignment; Certificate (PGCert) work with, and activity (whether their own or others) into by earlier modules, this module Crafts Council Strategy & Plans, 2008 - A collaborative project; Investigating Crafts alongside Crafts a strong context, and articulate in encourages you, working collaboratively - An oral presentation; practitioners communicating its meanings and with others to examine, analyse and This course delivers the history, - A written dissertation; Course length - Assessment tasks messages to a larger audience. report upon contemporary craft practice theory and context of crafts activity in - A curated exhibition relating designed to support in a discrete geographic area. You will ways that help to contextualise current to contemporary or historical - MA full-time three vocational needs Course structure and content be supported to publish this data as an craft practice. The central premise of craft activity; trimesters (one - Opportunities for The course is offered in both full article, book or website that is aimed the course is that craft practitioners, - Production of digital materials calendar year) study abroad via and part-time modes. It is normally at a ‘popular’ audience. The module together with those concerned with relating to contemporary or historical - MA part-time six international one year, (three trimesters) in duration will encourage you to be as adventurous their work need a solid grounding in craft activity including websites, trimesters partners in full-time mode or six trimesters in as possible in your interpretation of this these areas as well as skills in writing, DVD media. - PG Dip full-time - Distance learning part-time mode. The first two trimesters brief and in the range of the craft practice speaking, presentation and promotion two trimesters (one route available comprise taught sessions and assessed that you examine. in order to survive in a competitive Entry requirements academic year) projects, while the Master’s Project in the commercial arena. The course content Admission is normally based on a good - PG Dip part-time Course location final part of the course is by negotiated Consuming Contemporary Craft investigates Craft in its widest, modern undergraduate degree in an appropriate four trimesters project only. Completion of the first two The consumption of craft is key to definition. Craft is now a politically discipline together with an interview. - PG Cert full-time Sion Hill and modules on the course lead to the award understanding its role in society. This loaded, globalised term that is as Applicants with a good honours degree in one trimester Corsham Court of the Postgraduate Certificate, and aspect of craft has, however received far much discussed in relation to the a related discipline and/or with relevant - PG Cert part-time campuses completion of the first four modules less attention than its practice (making). ‘new technologies’ as it is in respect of work experience will also be considered. two trimesters leads to the award of the Postgraduate The module addresses issues including single maker, hand production activity. Overseas applicants will be assessed Applications Diploma. Subsequent completion of the the role of the museum sector; approaches The course utilises the rich heritage on the basis of their qualifications and Fees MA double module leads to the award to selling including galleries and fairs; of Crafts activity to be found in the South statement included in the application Application forms of MA Investigating Crafts. the role of crafts in the home and the West of the UK to offer you the opportunity form. To help applicants – especially Please see page are available on the perception of craft activity in the media. to study in a number of contexts. As well those from overseas – to decide if this 12 for full details. website and for any Modules as lectures, seminars and tutorials at our course is appropriate for them, it is admissions enquires Research Methodologies Master’s Project Sion Hill campus you will be working at advisable to contact the Course Director Enquiries please contact: Part One introduces generic research You will build on the knowledge and the University’s Corsham Court research prior to application. T: +44 (0)1225 875624 methodologies with Part Two considering skill you have acquired to propose, centre, where you will be part of a vibrant Please contact E: admissions@ subject specific material, analysis and negotiate and pursue a self-directed postgraduate research community. Employability Course Director bathspa.ac.uk evaluation techniques. project, supervised by your tutors Study visits to practicing craftspeople Typical career destinations include: Dr Graham McLaren through to completion. The Master’s are an important part of the syllabus, T: +44 (0)1225 875520 The Historical and Theoretical Project is capable of accommodating and you will use your new skills to - Crafts curator E: g.mclaren@ Context of Contemporary Craft a variety of approaches. Examples work collaboratively and supportively - Journalist bathspa.ac.uk This module provides you with the include, but are not restricted to: alongside them. The course offers you - Crafts practitioner historical understanding needed to the opportunity to study internationally - Gallery owner contextualise contemporary crafts. - A written dissertation; via our partnership arrangements, and - HE teacher You will be introduced to key texts and - A curated exhibition relating to for those geographically distant from - Researcher 01 Examples of contemporary British glass to the history of ideas underpinning craft contemporary or historical craft activity; Bath there is a distance learning - Writer 02 Eighteenth century slipware during the modern (post 1660) period. - Production of digital materials relating route available. 03 An early 19th century clay modelling studio Bath Spa University School of Art and Design www.bathspa.ac.uk Visual Communication
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develop working relationships with those 02 Cities are sites of cultural, business and sharing a common interest, from a variety political exchange. Visual communication of countries and cultures across the world. is a principal mode by which this exchange Modules Research Methodologies occurs. From large urban structures, Part One introduces generic research methodologies with Part Two considering through to an individual’s footprint, the subject specific material, analysis and evaluation techniques. This will be delivered visual connects distinct facets into a online or onsite at Bath Spa University. particular and personal experience. Developing Practice 1. Survey: a charrette examining aspects of Course structure and content workshop sessions — Charrettes — in the city of Bath in the context of its history The MA Visual Communication is an which students will share concentrated and contemporary culture which will be innovative and accessible program with periods of intense study, designed to help approached using your specialist route. three specialist routes in Graphic Design, the development of ideas. The residencies 2. Presentation: an exposition of your work Illustration and Photography. The program will be social, as well as educational. approach and practice to the group. will examine urban context through three Following each residency, individuals 3. Planning: a focused workshop that will international cities, where students will will develop their projects with online or examine, critique and then supplement 3. Planning: further development 2. Presentation: collaborative generate both individual and collaborative onsite tutorial support. Collaborations your current research methods. of research skills and presentation presentation of work from the responses. The course is distinctive in its and discussions with peers will continue of initial outline proposal for the Practice in Context module. structure. Its students will gather at four through blogging and video conferencing. Practice in Context master’s project. 3. Planning: detail for the Master's Project. week-long residential sessions, at Bath Students can also have access to workshop, 1. Survey: a charrette examining aspects Spa University and in two other international darkroom and print facilities should they of the host city for this trip. This should Practice in a Global Context Master's Project (delivered at Bath cities. The destinations will vary and may require it. be done in the context of its history and 1. Survey: a charrette examining the Spa University) include New York, Bangalore, Chicago, The flexibility of this course will allow contemporary culture and in relation to host city for this trip, by making A synthesis of your experiences based Tokyo, Las Vegas, Bangkok and others. MAVC students to work anywhere; you will the outcome of your previous research contextual links with organisations on the cities visited. Create an independent There will be programmed lectures, not need to re-locate in order to study. The in Bath. You will develop work in in the city. You will work on a project or collaborative piece of work based on a presentations and frequent opportunities course is therefore ideal for emerging as collaboration with other students. of your own design. This may be proposal agreed with your tutor in advance. to explore each city. A great advantage of well as established practitioners. In addition 2. Presentation: individual presentation of collaborative but must contribute 1. Installation: preparing work for the course structure is its collaborative the course offers great potential to work from the Developing Practice module. to your final MAVC Show. presentation and exhibition. Bath Spa University School of Art and Design 26/ 27
2. Presentation: sharing outcomes tutorials. These will be delivered either Institute of Graphic Arts, both nationally painting and printmaking for national Frequently Asked Questions with staff and students. online or onsite at Bath Spa University. and regionally in the United States. He and international publishers, galleries Who should apply? 3. Exhibition: public display of work. There can also be access to university’s has taught design at the University of and collectors. He has recorded global We are looking for a range of students facilities including dedicated photographic Massachusetts, University of Hawaii, sporting events including The FIFA World including new college graduates and mid Teaching methods and resources studios, conventional darkrooms, etching State University of New York, Parsons Cup and The Olympic Games and has career practitioners looking to shift the Teaching will be concentrated in four, and screen printing workshops as well as School of Design New York and University exhibited his work widely. He is the Subject direction of their practice. We aim for a week-long residences, during which there digital editing/printing suites. of the Arts London. His research typically Leader for illustration and a Senior Lecturer cohort of international students, each will be workshops and lectures led by staff investigates environmental, social and on the BA Graphic Communication course. of whom bring a range of experiences and visiting professionals. Students will Tutors urban issues. to the course. use these forums to examine and develop Stuart Henley – A graphic designer, Employability their work practice. They will participate in Principal Lecturer and Course Leader Dr Julia Moszkowicz – A Senior Lecturer The purpose of this course is to enable What is the dissertation requirement? group charrettes, discussion and analysis of the Graphic Communication BA, he in the history and theory of graphic design each student to question re-establish A dissertation is optional and can be and by making presentations of their work. received an MFA in Graphic Design from at Bath Spa University. Her research and define their own professional discussed on an individual basis. It Between the residences tutors will Yale University in 1996. His graphic design examines the relation of contemporary practice. This will enable individuals can form a part of the final exhibition. provide students with individual and group has been recognized by the American critical discourse to philosophical tradition, to control their career trajectory with a You will still need to attend all the with a specialist interest in the work of view to working in the creative industries residential workshops and contribute Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and phenomenology. internationally. This may include working to group activities. 03 She has written for Design History Journal, for design agencies, gaining freelance Design Issues, Screen and Eye magazine. commissions and initiating commercial How many days a week is the course? She also lectures on the philosophies of opportunities. The course is run in four intensive graphic design at conferences internationally, week-long workshops, two at Bath including the Design Biennale in St Etienne Assessment methods Spa University and two in international and the Centre for Design and Philosophy Assessment of modules is by written cities. Tutorial support can be online, in Copenhagen. submission, presentation and a final or at Bath Spa University. You are not exhibition. A dissertation is optional and required to attend the university on a Andrew Southall – A photographer can be negotiated on an individual basis. It regular weekly basis. and artist with many years experience can form a part of the final exhibition and in architectural photography, working will be assessed at the same point. Please note: for a range of national and international This course is subject to final clients including architects, engineers Entry requirements approval (at the time of printing) and magazines, as well as producing The usual requirement is a good first Visit www.bathspa.ac.uk/pgrad photography and sculpture for exhibition. degree (2:1 and above, or the international for the latest information He has a masters degree in Fine Art, and equivalent) in a related subject area, in a BA in Photography. He is the MAVC addition to a portfolio that demonstrates Programme Leader and lectures on the your visual ability. You may be selected BA Photography and Fine Art courses. based upon your particular work background, and your aptitude to the Tim Vyner – An illustrator, artist and course. If your work experience is in graduate of the Royal College of Art. a parallel field, appropriate to the Tim specialises in reportage, drawing, course, we will consider your application.
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Master of Visual The course is Communication delivered using (MAVC) block teaching in week-long Course length residential workshops. There - One (calendar) will be online or year full-time onsite term time - Two (calendar) tutorial support. years part-time Applications Start date Application forms 6th February 2012 are available on the website. For Meeting dates admission enquiries for academic please contact: year 2011 /12 T: +44 (0)1225 875624 E: admissions@ Charrette 1: bathspa.ac.uk 6th, 7th, 8th Feb Charrette 2: Enquiries 7th, 8th, 9th May For all enquiries Fees about the course, please contact the Please see page MAVC Programme 12 for full details. Leader: Andrew Southall Course location T: +44 (0)1225 876108 E: a.southall@ The campuses of bathspa.ac.uk Bath Spa University and other sites.
01 Blackwall Tunnel entrance, South London ©Andrew Southall 02 Birds nest stadium, Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, sketchbook spread © Tim Vyner 03 Song lyrics interpreted typographically Hawaii Review 57. Typography Stuart Henley 04 Hutong Advertising, Beijing 2008 Olympic Games © Tim Vyner Bath Spa University School of Education www.bathspa.ac.uk School of Education
Professor Stephen Ward, Dean of School “ Bath Spa University is one of the national leaders in the development of Education Studies, and the School of Education is the largest in the university with over fifty academic staff, many with national and international reputations. Our programmes will enable you to explore the nature, aims, values and functions of education in a rapidly changing world, preparing you for a career as a teacher or a wide range of careers in education or related settings.” Taught postgraduate degrees Initial Teacher Education (PGCE) Lifelong Learning: Initial Teacher Training Professional Practice in Higher Education Professional Master’s Programme: - Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice - Mentoring and Coaching - Specific Learning Difficulties/Dyslexia - Education Studies - International Education and Global Citizenship Bath Spa University School of Education 28 / 29 Bath Spa University School of Education www.bathspa.ac.uk Initial Teacher Education Postgraduate or Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)
Bath Spa University - Religious Education 01 has a long tradition - Science Subject Knowledge Enhancement Courses of Initial Teacher Subject knowledge enhancement courses are designed for graduates whose degree Education (ITE) dating subject does not link closely to the back over 60 years. secondary subject they intend to teach. They vary in length depending on the Newton Park was subject and run prior to the ITE programme. officially opened as Subjects available are: - Mathematics Bath Teacher Training - Modern Languages College in 1950 and - Physics the University is now Entry requirements Primary and Early Years – a good Honours the largest provider degree (preferably 2:1 or above) in any subject; five GCSE passes at grade C or of ITE in the area. above (or recognised equivalents) including English, maths and a science subject. Why choose this course? Secondary – a good Honours degree ‘Outstanding’ teacher education (minimum 2:2 or above) in the same In May 2011 we received a resounding subject (or a closely related one) to the endorsement for our teacher education subject you are applying to teach; five programmes from the quality regulator GCSE passes at grade C or above (or Ofsted, achieving Grade 1 ‘Outstanding’ recognised equivalents) including in all three of our programmes leading English and maths. to qualified teacher status in primary, All applicants should have at least two secondary and further education. weeks recent experience in a mainstream The rarely achieved ‘straight Grade 1’ UK School or Setting in the age phase you accolade for overall effectiveness in all are applying to teach. three programmes has only been afforded to one other teacher education provider, Please Note and on these measures Bath Spa is not This information is correct at the only the best teacher training university time of printing but may be subject to in the South West, but among the very change pending a government review best in the country. of ITE. Please check both the Bath Spa and TDA websites for the latest ITE programme information. The ITE programme prepares new teachers www.bathspa.ac.uk/teaching to work in the 21st century education www.tda.gov.uk system, and draws upon research, best T: 0800 389 2500 practice and the use of new technologies to inform its curriculum. Each year we recruit a diverse group of around 500 Bath Awards Applications Spa Teachers to a wide range of PGCE programmes in Primary and Early Years - Postgraduate Applications (3–11) and Secondary (11–16) age ranges. Certificate in are made via the Education (PGCE) Graduate Teacher Primary and Early Years - Professional Training Registry These are one-year full-time or 20 Graduate (GTTR) where you month part-time programmes that will Certificate in may complete an qualify you to teach either the Early Years Education (PGCE) online application Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1, or Key form. Applications Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. There are three Course length for Primary and Early routes to choose from: Years programmes - One year full-time should reach the - Primary and Early Years (3–7 years) - 20 months GTTR before 1st – full or part-time part-time – Primary December 2011 - Primary and Early Years (5–11 years) and Early Years and for Secondary – full-time only (3–7 years) only programmes before - Primary and Early Years (7–11 years) 30th June 2012. We – full-time only Fees advise you to apply as early as possible to Secondary For the latest give yourself the best These are one year full-time programmes information on fees chance of obtaining that will qualify you to teach your specialist and funding visit the a place. subject in Key Stage 3 (11–14 years) and Bath Spa website or www.gttr.ac.uk Key Stage 4 (14–16 years). There are contact the Training T: 0871 4680469 opportunities to undertake post-16 and Development enhancement work, enabling you to Agency for Schools Enquiries teach up to A-level. Subjects available are: (TDA) – details above. To request a copy - Art & Design Course location of our Initial - Design and Technology Teacher Education - English Various locations prospectus giving - Information and Communications including Newton full details of the Technology Park and Culverhay programmes listed - Mathematics campuses and on this page: - Modern Languages partnership schools. T: 01225 875624 E: teaching@ - Music 01 Secondary - Physical Education school students bathspa.ac.uk Bath Spa University School of Education 30 / 31 Lifelong Learning: Initial Teacher Training
The Lifelong Learning 01 Initial Teacher Training (LL ITT) programme is aimed at professionals teaching and training in the ‘Lifelong Learning’ sector.
This includes those teaching, training or tutoring in further education colleges, adult and community learning, private training providers, public sector training (e.g. NHS), prison education and armed forces instructors. This programme will give you the necessary skills, knowledge and competence to undertake your professional role with confidence and to the mutual benefit of both teacher and learner. There are two awards, the Certificate in Education and the Professional Graduate Certificate in Education. Both awards meet the current national requirements for Qualified Teacher (Learning and Skills), and are endorsed by Standards Verification UK (SVUK) as appropriate for that purpose. This provision has been recognised as one of the best in the country – during both 2007/8 and 2010/11 it was awarded a grade 1 in Ofsted inspections.
The programme has been developed in partnership with further education colleges, and in 2010 was delivered at Bridgwater College, Weston College and Wiltshire College.
Course structure and content This is a part-time, two-year in-service programme. In the first year you focus on developing and extending your teaching/ training competences and enhancing your professional approach to planning, implementing, monitoring, assessing and evaluating your teaching. The second year focuses on developing reflective professional practice with more emphasis on broader contextual issues while encouraging you to concentrate on specific aspects of your Assessment methods or equivalent in their specialist area. 02 Applications work and roles within the framework Each module has a number of practical As this is an in-service programme, of the intentions and content of assessment tasks such as micro- you will be expected to have a sufficient Please contact the modules. teaching, lesson planning, preparing number of hours in a current teaching/ CPD admin for materials and schemes of work, seminar training role for the duration of the further details: Teaching methods and resources presentation, and a case study report. programme (currently 160 across T: +44 (0)1225 875593 The overall style of the course is You are encouraged to use the two years of part time study). E: cpdadmin@ participative. A variety of methods and assessment tasks to investigate areas Accreditation of Prior Learning bathspa.ac.uk approaches are used including group of personal and professional interest. and Accreditation of Prior Experiential work, discussion, case studies, lectures Practical teaching and professional Learning may be available for parts of Enquiries and seminars. The sessions will provide development is developed and assessed these awards for those with approved a supportive forum to share experiences on an ongoing basis throughout the qualifications and relevant experience. Jim Crawley, and benefit from the full range of skills course, largely in your workplace. Programme Leader and knowledge available. Focused - Lifelong Learning: activities and reading advice will be given, Entry requirements T: +44 (0)1225 875677 and relevant texts will be made available It is expected that applicants will have a 01 Outdoor study at the Newton Park campus E: j.crawley@ during session times. qualification at a minimum of NVQ level 3 02 Group seminars bathspa.ac.uk Bath Spa University School of Education www.bathspa.ac.uk Professional Practice in Higher Education
These challenges – of teaching, development of higher education in education, though it may also be taken by The Professional Practice in Higher supporting student learning, their workplaces. more experienced staff. Based upon the Education (PPHE) programme aims employability, sustainability, new UK’s Professional Standards Framework technologies, team management, Course structure and content for Higher Education, the award qualifies to help staff and research students to enterprise, quality assurance and The PPHE programme is based upon teachers for Fellowship of the Higher external accountability – range across a credit system that enables students Education Academy. meet some of the key challenges of the whole business of higher education, to select modules and patterns of study - Postgraduate Certificate in Research and can rarely be addressed in isolation. to suit their individual needs and interests. Degree Supervision and Management: working in the rapidly changing world They raise many questions about how All modules are credit rated and lead 60 credits acquired from a pair of of higher education. best to enhance teaching and research to the following qualifications: 30-credit modules. This qualification within particular contexts, and about is designed to meet the needs of how managers and administrators can - MA degree: 180 credits; 120 acquired teachers who are new to research 01 improve the effectiveness and efficiency for the Diploma plus 60 for a Research degree supervision and management, of current practices, not least in terms Project/ Dissertation though it may also be taken by of addressing students’ needs and - Postgraduate Diploma: 120 credits experienced staff. aspirations, enriching their learning acquired from any combination of modules experiences, and raising the enduring - Postgraduate Certificate: 60 credits The programme enables participants value of their learning outcomes. acquired from any combination of modules to plan their course of study according By sharing ideas, knowledge and to their own needs and interests. Most expertise about our professional practices Students may also take modules that modules (subject to availability) can be we can both deepen our understanding lead to particular awards within the taken in any order and in any combination, of the challenges we face and realise programme: though we would advise new teachers opportunities to make improvements to include the ‘Teaching and Learning through innovations and the adoption - Postgraduate Certificate in Professional in Higher Education’ module among their of best practices. The PPHE programme Learning in Higher Education: 60 credits initial options. The Master’s Project or will help individuals to evidence their acquired from a set of three required Dissertation should be taken on personal commitment to professional modules. This qualification is designed completion of the PG Diploma. Tutorials development and to enhance the quality primarily for participants who are in their will be available to help participants plan of their work and contribution to the early years of teaching in higher their course of studies.
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03 04 will be available through the university’s Department, Social Sciences Similarly, applicants who can evidence Library and Information Services. Modules - Dr David Watson, Head of Department, a substantial body of work-based have been designed to make the most Department of Science experience relevant to the programme, of the wide range of scholarly material - Adam Powell, Head of Employability as through a reflective portfolio, can apply that is now freely available online, and - Dr Clare Power, Academic Staff for the Accreditation of Prior Experiential participants will have access to the online Development Co-ordinator Learning (APEL). APL and APEL credits resources and learning opportunities - Ann Siswell, Deputy Librarian, can then be counted towards the numbers afforded by the university’s virtual learning Library and Information Services of the credits required for a PGCert or a environment (Minerva) which will provide - Arlene Stone, Director of PGDip within the PPHE programme. links to key resources for each module. Human Resources The teaching sessions for some Modules may be selected to create various - Teaching and Learning within and modules will be delivered within a few Assessment methods levels of part-time study. The minimum beyond the Disciplines (15) weeks, some over a period of several Assessment for all modules is by enrolment is for one 15-credit module per - Employability in Higher Education (15) months, and some throughout the coursework, based upon the completion year. The maximum enrolment is for a - Pedagogical Research Project (30) academic year. Further information of assignments designed to promote full-time 180-credit Master’s degree. - Master’s Project or Dissertation (60) about the organisation, dates, times understanding, enhancement and/or and location of the teaching sessions application of professional practices in Awards professional Modules Teaching methods and resources for each module can be found in the higher education. Each module has its development - Teaching and Learning in Higher Most modules are delivered through Programme Calendar, available own assessment tasks, usually one or - MA (award title): for teaching and Education (30 credits)* two or three half-day sessions, including from [email protected]. two per module. Forms of assessment 180 credits; 120 non-teaching staff - Course Design and Assessment (15)* mini-lectures, seminars, workshops include work-based activities, action acquired for the and research - Using Learning Technology in Higher and presentations, supported where Tutors plans, reports, reflective logs, portfolios, Diploma plus 60 for students working Education (15)* appropriate by online discussions and The programme will be led by Clare presentations, reviews, case studies, a Research Project/ in higher education - Research Degree Supervision (30)** activities. Sessions are designed to Power and Paul Hyland, supported by business plans, short essays, action- Dissertation. contexts. - Research Management (30)** promote the sharing of ideas, expertise tutors with a wide range of teaching, research documents, and (for the Master’s - PGDip (award title): - Flexible patterns of - Mentoring and Coaching in Higher and experiences within a professional research, management and leadership degree) a dissertation/research project. 120 credits acquired enrolment, course Education (15) community of practice, so we will experience within and outside higher from any combination delivery and credit - Curriculum Models and Curriculum encourage participation and contributions education. The module tutors are: Entry requirements of modules. accumulation. Development in Higher Education (15) from everyone. One module (‘Teaching Applicants will normally be required - PGCert (award title): - Learning activities - The Teacher Practitioner (15) and Learning in Higher Education’, for - Joelle Adams, Student Achievement to possess an undergraduate degree 60 credits acquired and assessment - Teaching and Supporting Academic new teachers) includes some teaching Co-ordinator awarded by a UK higher education from any tasks that have a Writing in Higher Education (15) observation sessions, and some modules - Katie Akerman, Head of Quality institution, or an equivalent qualification combination of practical orientation - Quality Management in Higher provide opportunities for peer mentoring. Management from overseas. Applicants who do not modules. and can be tailored Education (15) Project and Dissertation modules will be - Alison Baud, Director of Library possess an undergraduate degree, or to reflect - Linking Teaching and Research (15) largely delivered by individual supervision, and Information Services equivalent professional qualification, Course length participants’ needs. - Sustainability in Higher Education (15) and E-learning modules will be held in ICT - Prof. Paul Davies, Director but who have at least two years of work - Opportunities to - Delivering Effective Outcomes and training rooms. of Academic Services experience relevant to the programme The programme network and share Change through Teams (15) Throughout the programme, - Dave Hassall, Director of Network are also welcome to apply, and will be provides for flexible knowledge and - Enterprise and Higher Education (15) participants will be supported by Services, Computing Services invited to attend an admissions interview. part-time or full-time experience within - E-learning, Teaching and Assessment (15) individual and small-group tutorials, - Nadine Hennessy, Human Resources Applicants who have previously study. The PGCert, a higher education - E-learning: hardware and software (15) and will be invited to attend occasional Manager completed postgraduate-level courses PGDip, or MA may be community. - E-learning with Web 2.0 (15) professional development lectures and - Prof. Paul Hyland, Head of Centre for or modules that can be recognised as completed within one - Designing and Conducting a Pedagogical seminars organised by the Centre for Learning and Teaching Development appropriate to the study of Professional year or over several Applications Research Project (15) Learning and Teaching Development - Dr Cathy Leng, Head of Department, Practice in Higher Education may be years. - The Role of Information Literacy in each year. Business and Management enrolled with advanced standing through Application forms Students’ Learning and Research (15) Learning resources for the programme - Dr Mark McGuiness, Head of our Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL). Fees are available from the PPHE administrator: 05 Please see page T: +44 (0)1225 875773 12 for full details. E: cltd@ Reduced fees are bathspa.ac.uk available for staff employed by Enquiries institutions within the university’s Wessex For all enquiries Partnership. For about the course, members of the please contact: Wessex Partnership Dr Clare Power, a 50% discount will Course Director. be applied to the T: +44 (0)1225 875709 standard fees for E: c.power@ the first 30 credits bathspa.ac.uk selected by each Prof. Paul Hyland, applicant. Head of Learning and Teaching. Course location T: +44 (0)1225 875564 E: p.hyland@ Newton Park and bathspa.ac.uk Corsham Court The Administrator campuses. for the Centre for Learning and Key features Teaching Development. T: +44 (0)1225 875773 - Opportunities E: cltd@ for accredited bathspa.ac.uk
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* Modules required for the PGCert, Professional Learning in Higher Education ** Modules required for the PGCert, Research Degree Supervision and Management Bath Spa University School of Education www.bathspa.ac.uk Professional Master’s Programme: Introduction to Postgraduate Awards
Our postgraduate Professional Master’s 01 Programme (PMP) has been designed to offer professional learning related to general and specialist fields of education and training. We offer flexible study on a range of work based, independent study, taught and core modules, leading to Grad Cert, PG Cert, PG Dip or Master’s degree qualifications.
Why choose this course? Postgraduate Diploma (PG Dip) The PMP and its work based learning This involves the completion of 120 credits. constituents and are compliant with At least 90 credits must be at Level 7 with the Training and Development Agency’s a maximum of 30 at Level 6. (TDA) Integrated Qualifications Framework (IQF). Master of Arts or Teaching (MA/MTeach) The MA or MTeach qualification is gained through the completion of 180 credits that includes a final dissertation of 60 credits. The final stage 60 credits dissertation research project is 15,000–20,000 words PMP Awards or equivalent. The PMP has a selection of both specialised The period of registration for part- and general awards, some of which can be time students is usually a minimum studied as a full-time programme. of two years and a maximum of six years, whereas for full-time this is from one year Specialised awards up to two years maximum. These awards include specific modules for study. The awards are: Elective and Core Modules within the programme - Education Studies (full-time option see page 38) Elective Mid-Stage Modules for General - International Education and Global Awards: Citizenship (full-time option see page 38) These 30 credit modules are intended for - Specific Learning Difficulties/Dyslexia those participants who have gained 60 (full-time option see page 37) credits and are moving through the General - Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice Awards. They are independent study options, (see page 36) and involve four evening sessions. They are additionally supported by Educational General awards: Context Seminars. The modules are: These flexible awards reflect the general focus of independent or work-based study - Learning and Teaching undertaken. Participants undertaking - Leadership, Mentoring and Coaching general awards are initially registered to - Learning and Knowledge Technology the ‘Educational Practice’ award. Based - Education, Politics and Society on the focus of their study, they may choose - Including Vulnerable Learners from a number of different titles for their final award. The awards are: PMP Core Research Modules for Master’s Awards: - Critical and Creative Thinking The core modules that all participants - Early Childhood Studies must complete to progress towards a - Educational Practice Master’s dissertation are: - Educational Leadership and Management - Learning and Knowledge Technology - Research and the Professional: Part - Mentoring and Coaching 1 Research Methodology (15 credits) - Primary Science Education - Research and the Professional: Part - Primary Mathematics Education 2 Project Preparation (15 credits) 02 NQT: Early Professional Practice - Primary English Education This then leads to: module (EPP) - Tertiary and Adult Education - Master’s Research Project (60 credits) The 30 or 60 credit EPP module has - Vulnerable Learners and Inclusion been specially designed to meet the Assessment methods needs of any teacher who is new to the For further information on the various awards Assessment for most modules is based profession. It builds upon the PGCE and please contact CPD admin (see snapshot). on completing assignments related to sessions address specific Core Standards professional learning tasks. An innovative including those related to working with Qualifications within the programme range of assessment modes have other adults and improving practice. The range of qualifications offered have been designed to reflect a diversity of This module is relevant to NQTs, supply different requirements in terms of the professional needs and experience. teachers and those seeking class number of module credits involved: teaching roles in school and can be Entry requirements included within your NQT file as evidence Graduate Certificate (Grad Cert) Working professionals do not necessarily of your ongoing professional development. This involves the study and completion need a first degree to join the Professional The first year in teaching can feel quite of 60 credits at Level 6 (Honours). Master’s Programme. A professional isolating (in comparison with PGCE) qualification and at least two years and a key strength of this module is that Postgraduate Certificate (PG Cert) professional experience are usually it also provides you with the opportunity This involves the study and completion acceptable, together with evidence that to network with other teachers who are of 60 credits, a maximum of 15 at Level 6 you would benefit from study at this level. new to the profession. We offer a 50% (Honours) and a minimum of 45 credits Candidates without a degree may apply fee reduction for Bath Spa Teachers. at Level 7 (Master’s). to the Grad Cert route to enable them to For further details please contact: progress to higher level awards. Please Fiona Maine, [email protected] Bath Spa University School of Education 34 / 35
contact Dr Steve Coombs to discuss which of a coaching culture in your my teaching and the children. I like how Awards or one of our partner membership of E: cpdadmin@ level of qualification would suit you best school/setting. I have been able to complete the PMP schools, Local professional bathspa.ac.uk (see snapshot). part-time and to a certain degree at my - PG Dip (award title) Authority training associations, e.g. Leadership Development own pace, depending on my teaching job. - PG Cert (award title) venues or partner the British Dyslexia Enquiries Lifelong Learning (Initial Your leadership development module I have found the lecturers at Bath Spa are - Grad Cert (award colleges: Bridgwater Association, Teacher Training) could include: easily contactable and are always available title) College; Norton Chartered Institute Please contact the We offer a Certificate in Education/ to help with any questions I have. Also, the - Certificate in Radstock College; of Educational CPD admin office: Professional Graduate Certificate in - Personal reflections on what informs campus is in a beautiful situation with lots Education (Lifelong Weston College; Assessors, the T: (01225) 875593 Education aimed at professionals teaching your leadership aspirations and practice of resources to use. I’m still completing Learning) Weymouth College; Institute of E: cpdadmin@ and training in the ‘lifelong learning’ sector - Understanding different leadership styles the course but so far it has taught me to - Professional Wiltshire College. Leadership and athspa.ac.uk ( See page 31 for full details). and their impact upon school climate be more of a reflective teacher, and will Graduate Management & Head of Department This provision has been recognised - The leadership of learning. help with my future career development. Certificate (Lifelong Key features British Association for Continuing as one of the best in the country and has - Strategies to develop and support the The PMP is a highly enjoyable programme Learning) of Counsellors and Professional been awarded a Grade 1 in two consecutive leadership of change that has made me really ‘think’ and develop - Flexible study Psychotherapists. Development – Ofsted inspections, first in 2007/8 and - Critical understanding of building and my teaching.” Course length arrangements Dr Steve Coombs: again in 2011. Please contact Jim Crawley leading effective teams allowing you to Key features T: (01225) 876149 for further information (see snapshot). - The MA is up to six choose from a E: s.coombs@ We also offer a generic PMP Award For more information about school-based 03 years part time and range of accredited Flexible study bathspa.ac.uk for those working in the further education CPD and consultancy contact Dr Fiona normally one year short modules arrangements Programme Leader and adult training sector linked to our Maine (see snapshot). full-time. or longer allowing you to for Lifelong Learning range of level 6 & 7 qualifications: - PG Dip up to four programmes choose from a – Jim Crawley: The PMP award title is: Adult & Student Profile years part-time and of study. range of accredited T: (01225) 875677 Tertiary Education Hannah Crook, PMP (part-time) normally one year - Flexible learning short modules E: j.crawley@ – full-time. through choices or longer bathspa.ac.uk Valuing Previous Learning (APL) “I am completing the PMP on a part-time - PG Cert normally that offer a mixed programmes Programme Leader Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) basis at the same time as my full-time one year part-time. menu of either of study. for School based CPD can be offered if you have successfully job as a classroom teacher at a Primary - Grad Cert normally taught modules – Dr Fiona Maine: completed previous Level 6 or 7 modules School in Wiltshire. I chose to do this one year part-time. and/or supervised Applications T: (01225) 876315 at another university. We accept APL for course to improve my understanding 04 independent study. E: f.maine@ our PGDip or Master’s qualifications. As of teaching and learning and to develop Fees - Wide range of Applications are bathspa.ac.uk a guide, up to a maximum of 90 credits as a teacher, improving the learning specialist and completed online may be credited towards a Master’s experiences of the children I teach. I Please see page generic using the Bath Spa Degree and 75 credits towards a PGDip. also enjoy it! I chose Bath Spa University 12 for full details. career-based student portal. We will require a full transcript from the because of the connections with Wiltshire award titles. Please contact CPD 01 Private study time awarding university. County Council; my first two action research Course location - A number of Admin for a project/ 02 A secondary school specialist award module code and for art teacher It is also possible to gain accreditation projects were completed as a joint course 03 Hannah Crook, PMP for other kinds of professional between the two. I really like the fact that Newton Park, areas are linked to all other enquiries. (part-time) development by compiling an independent the course is linked to my teaching so I can Corsham Court, career enhancing T: (01225) 875593 04 Primary School Teacher study portfolio of professional development see, and note, the benefits it is having on (APEL – Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning). For further information about gaining credits in this way please contact CPD admin (see snapshot). PMP Framework
School-Based CPD and Consultancy At Bath Spa University we offer a wide This flowchart shows the journey you might take through the PMP programme. range of school-based CPD opportunities. We are keen to provide professional development which reflects the changing contexts and priorities of schools and our current involvement ranges from specific CPD programmes for individual schools, or networks and clusters, through to MASTER’S DEGREE strategic partnerships with Local Authorities. Timings for bespoke school/ LA centre based modules will be individually PG DIPLOMA negotiated to meet the group’s needs. These development projects include:
Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century PG CERTIFICATE Your project focuses might include:
- Creative approaches to curriculum design 60 credits: 30 credits: 30 credits: 60 credits: - The central role of talk and collaborative First stage for all awards Second stage for Master’s award Compulsory second stage for all Final stage for Master’s awards learning in the classroom Master’s awards – Master’s Research Project or - Promoting and teaching learning to – OR learn dispositions - General Awards: work-based 60 credits: Cognate Research and the Professional - The place of Web 2.0 technologies to and independent study modules Second stage for PG Dip award – enhance learning - Specialised Awards: see pages – – Where a specific award title is being 36 to 39 - Award specific modules OR - Part 1 – includes gaining an followed, the research project must Mentoring and Coaching - Mid-stage Master’s modules on: understanding of research reflect the subject or area of specialism. Your mentoring and coaching project Credit for professional experience - Learning and Teaching OR methodologies could include: and other previous Higher Education - Leading and Coaching OR - Part 2 – includes project proposal for Progression onto MPhil and PhD courses or equivalent (APL) – only - Education, Politics and Society OR continuation to the dissertation (the is available via consultation with - Exploration of the similarities and available for PGDip and MA - Learning and Knowledge Technology final stage for a Master’s award) your award leader and/or the head differences between mentoring and qualifications. OR of research. coaching - Inclusion - The place of mentoring and coaching in the workplace To support these modules there are - Development and consolidation of three Educational Context seminars skills and knowledge associated with held throughout the year covering mentoring and coaching contemporary educational topics. - Strategies to support the development Bath Spa University School of Education www.bathspa.ac.uk Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice
01 qualification) or through BSU modules - Bridgwater College Advanced Diploma This award is suitable (the work-based action enquiry and/or the in Counselling and Psychotherapy Independent study) and then to undertake - Chichester Counselling Service Diploma for counsellors and Research and the Professional Parts 1 & 2 in Psychotherapeutic Counselling or psychotherapists and the Master’s Research Project. Psychodynamic Counselling The modules are completed through - The Manor House Centre, North London, who have completed distance learning with individual contact Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling made with a supervisor either through and Therapy in the Community a recognised face to face tutorials, telephone - Northbrook College, Sussex, Advanced supervision or online supervision. Diploma in Integrative Counselling counselling or and Therapy psychotherapy Counselling and Psychotherapy - Southampton Counselling Service Work-based Action Enquiry Advanced and Diploma courses training qualification, This module is for students to gain up - Wessex Counselling Service Advanced to 60 credits and can be used by those and Diploma courses and who are working outside the six years requirement for APL or those who need to make up APL. Applicants who qualified through other or who have worked An alternative to the Independent Study counselling or psychotherapy trainings professionally as Module, it is specifically focussed on are invited to apply for our programme. reflecting and writing about clinical theory Currently qualifications from counselling a counsellor or linked with practice. It can include client and psychotherapy courses are examined work or supervised practice, or a review or on an individual basis by the award leader psychotherapist. conference report linked to clinical practice. to determine APL. APL is recognised within six years of a training qualification. Why choose this course? Independent Study The MA will give practising counsellors and This module is for students to gain up psychotherapists an academic University to 60 credits and can be used by those based qualification to complement their outside the 6 years requirement for APL professional qualification. or those who need to make up APL. This is usually a piece of work based either Contact 01 Counselling in action Course structure and content on a literature review or the theoretical You can gain a Postgraduate Diploma aspects of a case study. Students are Please contact the (120 credits) or Master’s Award (180 encouraged to choose a subject linked CPD admin office credits) in Counselling and Psychotherapy to their research interest. Practice to complement your professional or award leader Fiona Gardner: qualification. Entrance to the Master’s Entry requirements T: +44 (0)1225875593 award requires you to have gained 90 There are direct links to the following E: cpdadmin@ credits linked to Counselling and courses and qualifications: bathspa.ac.uk Psychotherapy, either through APL - Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and E: f.gardner@ (accreditation for prior learning, granted Counselling, Diploma in Humanistic bathspa.ac.uk within six years of gaining your counselling and Integrative Counselling
02 and consider the implications of this This award is for mentoring. Mentors will refine their Mentoring mentoring skills and will focus upon particularly relevant the effectiveness of oral and written to colleagues in communications with a mentee. Participants will also explore ways and Coaching positions of leadership to approach challenging mentoring situations. This module draws on a range as well as those who of key texts to support discussion and have mentoring roles critical reflection. 01 in schools, settings Leading and Coaching A 30 credit module aimed specifically for and organisations. colleagues who have a particular interest in Coaching and Leadership and already Why choose this course? the Professional Part 1 and 2 and the have 60 credits towards their Master’s. There is a growing emphasis on Research Project. mentoring and coaching in the public Action Enquiry/ Independent Study and private sector and leaders are being Bespoke modules are negotiated based An action enquiry or an independent study encouraged to draw on coaching as a on the needs of participants. Below is focusing on mentoring or coaching can key leadership skill in order to develop a sample: contribute towards this award. The content and empower staff at all levels. of these modules would be individually Colleagues are also being encouraged Developing Coaching Skills negotiated with the award leader. to engage in mentoring and coaching This module begins by exploring the relationships with their peers in order differences between mentoring and Entry requirements to support each other’s professional coaching. Participants will develop You must either be a teacher or to have a development. As a result there are coaching skills associated with good first degree. now a range of opportunities to use listening, questioning and building mentoring and coaching skills in a rapport. There will be opportunity to range of contexts. practice these skills with other 01 Personal mentoring participants and to reflect upon a range Contact 02 Colleagues are Course structure and content of situations where these skills and encouraged to engage Modules can be offered as 30 or 60 approaches can be used in their work Please contact in mentoring and coaching relationships credit modules. Colleagues can gain context. Through reading key texts award leader with their peers a Postgraduate Certificate (60 credits), participants will be encouraged to engage Ruth Barrington: Postgraduate Diploma (120 credits) critically with theory related to coaching T: +44 (0)1225 875414 or Master’s award in Mentoring and and to consider its relevance to practice. E: r.barrington@ Coaching. The Master’s award requires bathspa.ac.uk the teacher to have gained 90 credits Developing Mentoring Skills linked to Mentoring and Coaching and This module provides the opportunity to then to have undertaken Research and reflect on the mentee as an adult learner Bath Spa University School of Education 36 / 37 Specific Learning Difficulties/Dyslexia
This award will be of particular relevance to 01 you if your work involves vulnerable learners and you wish to develop the skills to support individuals with SpLD/Dyslexia within education or other appropriate contexts.
Why choose this course? Approved Teacher Status (ATS), on The current international focus upon completion of the first module, or standards, literacy and the inclusion of Associate Membership (AMBDA) vulnerable learners within mainstream on completion of both modules. educational institutions means that there is increasing pressure upon professionals Identifying and Overcoming Maths to develop the skills to identify and support Difficulties a range of specific learning needs in The focus is upon developing an literacy and study skills across the school understanding of the difficulties faced by curriculum. Acquiring these specialist primary or secondary students with SpLD/ skills can open the door to many career dyslexia or dyscalculia when learning opportunities within and beyond the mathematics and how to help students school and college context. overcome these challenges. It will be led This award focuses upon identification, by Julie Kay an international expert in assessment and practical support for maths and dyslexia. learners of all ages with SpLD/Dyslexia. You can choose to combine the academic Action Enquiry/Independent Study study at Master’s level with the An individually negotiated study focusing development of practical competence on SpLD/Dyslexia can contribute towards required by the British Dyslexia the award of a PG Diploma in SpLD/ Association (BDA) through professional Dyslexia. placement supervised by expert tutors. Through the professional practice Entry requirements element of the course you have the Applicants (with the exception of opportunity to apply to the British Dyslexia speech and language therapists and Association for their sought after psychologists) should have a first degree International Approved Teacher Status in Education or linked pedagogy and, (ATS) or Associate Membership (AMBDA). ideally, two years of teaching experience.
Course structure and content You can gain a Postgraduate Diploma Contact 01 School experience (120 credits) or Master’s Award (180 02 Identifying and credits) in SpLD/Dyslexia. The Master’s overcoming maths Please contact award requires you to have gained 90 difficulties award leader 03 Practicing handwriting credits linked to SpLD/Dyslexia and Dr Tilly Mortimore: 04 In the classroom then to have undertaken Research setting T: +44 (0)1225 876118 and the Professional Part 1 and 2 and E: t.mortimore@ the Research Project. bathspa.ac.uk The modules offered are:
Identifying and Supporting Learners 02 03 with SpLD/Dyslexia The first module will develop the ability to carry out assessments to compile an individual learning profile to underpin the development and teaching of individualised programmes for learners with SpLD/Dyslexia across a range of contexts. Methods and strategies to develop the inclusive practices which can support learners across the curriculum are also explored. This module offers a PG Certificate as a stand-alone award and is accredited by the BDA at ATS level.
Assessment Methodology for SpLD/ Dyslexia The second module will develop the ability 04 to undertake full diagnostic assessments for dyslexia to inform programmes and appropriate support, such as Examination Access Arrangements. This can be taken as a stand-alone module by suitably experienced students, whose prior learning may enable them to apply for pre-entry accreditation to obtain the AMBDA. Submission of the (optional) professional practice portfolio alongside academic practice based assignments will obtain dual accreditation enabling suitably qualified teachers and speech and language therapist professionals to gain the sought after International BDA Bath Spa University School of Education www.bathspa.ac.uk Education Studies International Education and Global Citizenship
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This MA is an opportunity to study educational 02 issues in depth for the programmes cover policy, practice and education theory within an international context.
Education is much more than the study - What is the relationship between of teaching and our programmes are education and the economy? designed to get you questioning the - How is education changing as it assumptions that lie beneath educational enters the market place? policy and practice. - How are education systems managed? - Who takes decisions about Course structure and content the curriculum and teaching? Both the Education Studies and - How far do governments control education? International Education and Global - How far should they? Citizenship awards form part of the - What is the role of professional educators? Professional Master’s Programme within - What will be the role of schools and the School of Education and offer a mixture universities in the future? of theory and practice with professional - What is the future for education in the development within a global and knowledge economy? international context. - Is education becoming an ‘instrument’ Students come from a wide range of of capitalism? countries, from Cyprus, the Gambia, the United States, Germany, Indonesia, China, Modules Japan, and so on, as well as the United Compulsory modules Kingdom. They also come from many There are four compulsory modules backgrounds. Some have Educational and a dissertation: Studies as a first degree while others have been marine biologists, musicians - Education, Politics and Society or experts in fibre optics. We welcome this - Learning and Knowledge Technology diversity. All come, however, with a good - Research and the Professional Part 1 first degree and a thirst to know more - Research and the Professional Part 2 about education: (Research Project Preparation)
- What is the nature of learning Optional modules and teaching in different countries You also take two additional optional and cultures? modules that allow for further in-depth Bath Spa University School of Education 38 / 39
study. Because the programme operates education in the unification of Cyprus. apply before making a decision whether 05 Awards international and alongside the part-time programme, To achieve the award you will need 180 to become a teacher. global perspective there is the opportunity to select from credits in total. - MA Education other modules. While these have a strong Non-teachers looking for new Studies Applications professional application they may still Entry requirements career paths: - MA International be relevant to your intended career. Students are expected to have an Honours Most of our students, however, have no Education and Application forms degree from a recognised Higher Education intention of teaching. They are attracted by Global Citizenship are available on the - International Education Institution in the UK, although we accept the academic nature of this award, by its website and for any and Globalisation applicants with appropriate experience habit of enabling new thinking about Course length admissions enquiries - Global Citizenship that we consider sufficient and comparable, things that seemed like common sense, please contact: - Education Policy or an equivalent degree from overseas. and by the prospect of improving One year full-time T: +44 (0)1225 875624 - Language, Ideology and Education Equivalence of overseas students’ academic academic skills and qualities and applying or part-time (with E: admissions@ - Education in the Social and Cultural qualifications is assessed by NARIC (see them in educationally related fields. permitted extensions bathspa.ac.uk Context of the UK www.naric.org.uk). The content and subject up to a maximum - Cultural and Historical Roots of matter of a student’s first degree is open. Employability Student profile of six years for Enquiries Mathematics In some circumstances, professional work Many of our students seek new career Emma Dunn, MA Education Studies part-time students) in education (e.g. PGCE) or a related field paths to educational management, – Please contact Teaching methods and resources can be assessed as appropriate credit for training or in related fields, maybe in their “I chose this course to gain a deeper Fees course director Modules are taught through lectures ‘prior learning’ (APL) and a reduction in non-UK home. Some wish to continue understanding of the theoretical, social, Dr Howard Gibson: and small group seminars. There are the number of credits required to pass their undergraduate expertise in Education cultural and political influences in Please see page E: h.gibson@ also individual tutorials and good the programme can be negotiated. For Studies and gain a broader and deeper education. I found that Bath Spa 12 for full details. bathspa.ac.uk opportunities for extended discussion overseas applicants who are non-native view of education. Others wish to gain presented a variety of modules and the with tutors. speakers of English, a minimum language employment in, say, a museum or gallery capacity to step back and reflect on the Course location level of IELTS 6.5, or equivalent, is required. setting, while others start with the ‘big’ themes. The flexibility of the course intention of taking their studies further – and the tutorials were the main things I Newton Park Analysis of ideas Who can apply? to PhD level – and seek eventual enjoyed about studying at Bath Spa – this, campus through discussion Prospective teachers: employment in an academic institution. along with the wonderful setting made The UK government has recently my MA really enjoyable. Before studying Key features is the key to announced that teaching will become here, I was an Education Officer in a a postgraduate level profession in small independent museum in Bath. - Analyses politics teaching and England. If your ambition is to teach Since leaving the university I run the and policies in in a school, then our MA is ideally suited formal learning department at Geffrye 01 Students come from a education wide range of countries learning in the (although it is not itself a UK teaching Museum, London. Studying the MA has - Allows you to study 02 Students at Geffrye qualification). Some students apply for provided the theoretical foundation for all educational topics Museum, London programme. our MA having completed their PGCE my subsequent educational work and has 03-04 Education within an in depth international context with the intention of postponing their Some lectures and given me the opportunity to challenge and - Has a strong 05 Emma Dunn, MA seminars occur entry to the profession, whereas others reflect within my day-to-day practice. Education Studies during the day 04 whilst others take place from late afternoon.
Tutors - Dr Howard Gibson - Dr Steve Coombs - Ms Christine Eden - Prof David Coulby
Assessment methods There are no written exams and each module is assessed by coursework. This typically involves an essay of 2,500 words for a 15 credit module and 5,000 words for a 30 credit module. Sometimes assessment is by verbal presentation. The dissertation is 15,000–20,000 words and worth 60 credits. It focuses on an area mutually agreed with a specialist tutor who also offers guidance and support in the writing of the dissertation. Subjects vary widely, from the nature and quality of Supply Teachers in the UK to the education of women in the Gambia, from the role of the modern Museum Educator to the theoretical role of
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Professor Tim Middleton, Head of School “ The high-quality research-led teaching on all courses within the School makes us an extremely popular choice for students. Our aim is to provide an exciting, stimulating learning environment which both supports and empowers students throughout their undergraduate experience. We are at the forefront of new developments and you will be taught by staff at the leading edge of their disciplines.” Taught postgraduate degrees Creative Writing Feature Filmmaking Heritage Management Literature and Landscape Scriptwriting Travel and Nature Writing Writing for Young People Bath Spa University School of Humanities and Cultural Industries 40 / 41 Creative Writing
This course will help and encourage you 01 to bring a novel, book of poems, book of short stories or work of literary non-fiction as near to publishable quality as possible.
Why choose this course? Context Modules The programme, has become These modules examine genres and look established as one of the leading at ways in which writers meet challenges courses of its kind. from the public world. At least five of the following are offered each term: Course structure and content The course is modular and is currently - Writing and the Environmental Crisis offered for full-time study only. - Suspense Fiction The MA in Creative Writing is concerned - Contemporary American Writing with imaginative writing, which includes - The Writer and Place novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction. - Modernism and Postmodernism The emphasis is upon encouragement, - Writing and Gender to help you to find and pursue a direction - The Short Story in your writing, and to understand the - Writing and Politics process of offering a manuscript - Reviewing and Journalism for publication. - Narrative Non-Fiction Because of the reputation of the MA - Genres of Television Drama in Creative Writing, we are able to recruit - The Love Story excellent students who, every year, form - Writing for Young People an exciting and mutually supportive community of writers. Frequent visits by The Manuscript other writers, literary agents, publishers, For this module each student brings broadcasters and other professionals a manuscript as near to publishable connected with writing ensure that students quality as possible. You are assigned are given plentiful advice about how to a specialist tutor. place work and make decisions about their careers as writers. Teaching methods and resources The course is not for the writer whose Students take two three-hour seminars only interest is in their own work, but rather a week for the workshop and context for the writer who can benefit from working modules. The Manuscript is completed closely with fellow students and with tutors, between June and September. Students many of whom are practising and meet tutors regularly during this period. 02 03 Award please contact: published writers. A residential writing weekend is an T: +44 (0)1225 875624 In recent years, several current or essential part of the course. MA Creative Writing E: admissions@ former students have been awarded bathspa.ac.uk excellent contracts for novels; Two were Tutors Course location long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, Tutors include prestigious, best selling Enquiries three for the Orange Prize, one for the and award winning writers, such as Corsham Court Costa Prize and one for the Guardian Gerard Woodward (novelist and poet); campus Please contact First Book Award. One received the Betty Tim Liardet (poet); Tessa Hadley (novelist); course leader Trask Prize; another the Manchester Andrew Miller (novelist); Carrie Etter (poet); Course length Professor Book Award; another a W.H. Smith New Samantha Harvey (novelist); Steve May Richard Kerridge: Talent Award. One reached the best-seller (radio dramatist, playwright and novelist); One year full-time T: +44 (0)1225 875573 lists. Student poets have had their poetry Richard Kerridge (nature writer); Paul Student Profile E: r.kerridge@ accepted for publication in numerous Evans (nature writer); Lucy English Fees bathspa.ac.uk literary journals, including Ambit, Magma, (novelist and poet); Mimi Thebo (novelist); Nikita Lalwani, MA Creative Writing – London Magazine, Poetry Wales, PN Jonathan Neale (novelist, dramatist Please see page You may also “ Being at Bath Spa was something Review and The Reader, among others, and non-fiction writer); Tricia Wastvedt 12 for full details. be interested invaluable and indefinable for me. and have been placed in such competitions (novelist); Celia Brayfield (novelist); Jenni in our specialist I was worried that going on a creative as the Bridport, the Frogmore, Mslexia, Mills (novelist); Neil Rollinson (poet). In Funding postgraduate writing course might be a bit like being and Writers Inc. Janklow and Nesbit addition you will have the opportunity to course in children’s in a slightly sick, ‘show us your underwear’ Ltd, a leading literary agency, awards an meet a wide range of writers, publishers AHRC Studentships writing – see page the basis of a folder of creative writing form of group therapy. I was very wrong. annual prize for the best novel or novel and literary agents. available – see page 47 and visit www. and an early draft of part of the Manuscript. Instead I was thrust into the company in progress by a student on the course. 12 for full details bathspa.ac.uk/pgrad Each context module is assessed on the of some of the most interesting writers It is implicit in the course philosophy Visiting writers for details of the basis of an essay and a folder of creative around – the current spread of tutors in that critical reading aids the development Readings and seminars conducted by Key Features MA Writing for responses. The Manuscript is 35,000– the department – who have managed to of writers. Workshops, in which you look writers are built into the programme. Young People. 40,000 words (or the equivalent for poetry create a space where ideas really are constructively at each other’s writing, Visiting writers have included Moniza - A leading course and scriptwriting). exchanged rather than reduced to and context modules, to study the ways Alvi, John Burnside, Stevie Davies, Helen - An institution that templates. I wrote more than half of my in which writers meet certain challenges, Dunmore, Roy Fisher, Peter Flannery, has pioneered Entry requirements novel there and am indebted for the way are integral parts of the course. Nick Hornby, Michael Hulse, Emyr the teaching of Admission to the course is based on a in which being on the course made Humphreys, Kathleen Jamie, Mimi creative writing portfolio of creative writing, our estimate writing the centre of my life.” Modules Khalvati, Toby Litt, Tony Lopez, Benjamin - Writing workshops of the student’s commitment and potential The full MA programme consists of two Markovits, Les A. Murray, Tim Pears, taught by published as a writer and ability to benefit from the Nikita’s debut novel, Gifted, was included writing workshops, two context modules Ashley Pharoah, D.B.C. Pierre, Jem writers course, and normally, but not invariably, in the longlist for the 2007 Man Booker and the Manuscript (a double module): Poster, Philip Pullman, Fiona Sampson, - Strong links with on an undergraduate degree. Prize, the shortlist of the Costa first novel Michael Schmidt, Matthew Sweeney literary agents Applicants will need to submit a short award, and won the 2008 Desmond Elliott Workshop One and Fay Weldon. There will also be and publishers You can either start with a general writing visits from publishers, literary agents piece of creative writing with their prize for sparkling new fiction. Nikita’s application form, such as two chapters novel was conceived on the MA course, workshop in which you experiment with a and broadcasters. Every year there are Applications 01 Publications from range of forms, or a specialist workshop opportunities to show work to agents of a novel, two short stories, six poems, and a first draft was her manuscript MA Creative Writing or the equivalent. submission. students and staff in prose fiction or poetry. and editors who visit. Application forms 02 The beautiful are available on the campus at Corsham Workshop Two Assessment methods Court is perfect website and for any for quiet reading This is a specialist workshop in prose Assessment is by coursework only. admissions enquires 03 Nikita Lalwani, MA fiction or poetry. Each writing workshop is assessed on Creative Writing Bath Spa University School of Humanities and Cultural Industries www.bathspa.ac.uk Feature Filmmaking
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The MA in Feature Filmmaking is designed develop/rework/alter your main project script development evaluations, industry in light of the insights into low budget reports, production folders, marketing to give you an industry-focused education in cinema techniques and how the reports and the feature film project. international film business operates. Your final mark for the production the business and practice of modern feature module will reflect the quality of the Finding an Audience – final submission and amount of input making for fact or fiction. Distribution Techniques you have put into the combined project This module gives you a thorough either as a producer or director. Your grounding in the theory and practice tutors will evaluate your creative and The collaborative nature of modern are not modules that would be covered of contemporary marketing, as applied physical input to the project and your filmmaking means that this is a course in a MA in Film Studies as they relate to film. The module introduces traditional course based on your journals, tutorials, for students with aspirations as directors, entirely to the business functions of the marketing theories and strategies on other students’ submissions and any producers, screenwriters, APs, camera industry, although you will investigate the marketing communications, consumer other submissions. In this sense a well- ops, editors and other creative roles, who power and dominance of the Hollywood behaviour, direct marketing and customer produced project can be awarded a want to develop both their aesthetic and studio system and its impact on narrative, relationship marketing. It then updates distinction to the producer even if the business skills for a successful career for example. However, you will then apply these approaches, with a focus on digital director achieves a pass for his or Awards - An opportunity working on feature length documentaries this knowledge to alternative funding marketing techniques. Using social her work. to work with or fiction films. models and tax regimes that European networks to build networks of advocates - MA Feature producers, countries have adopted to combat prior to release that can produce a Entry requirements Filmmaking directors and Course structure and content Hollywood’s dominance. marketing momentum that allows Applicants to the twelve month - Postgraduate cinematographers The course teaches you how modern low budget films to compete against programme must have a script or Diploma (PG Dip) exploring and filmmakers make feature length projects Feature development workshops Hollywood’s blockbuster marketing clout. treatment, which in the opinion of Bath Feature pooling your skills and offers practical experience of trying to There are two script/development Spa is at pre-production at the point Filmmaking with your fellow make such projects. We cannot guarantee workshops and up to four hours one- Production and Postproduction of interview. If the script or treatment - Postgraduate filmmakers that your project will get made and your to-one mentoring during this period. This module is the culmination of the requires any significant extra work,or Certificate (PG Cert) - Learn about the success in academic terms will not depend Students on the part-time route will previous four modules. In this 16 week an extended filming schedule, you will Feature traditional and upon you having completed a feature have the opportunity to collaborate on module you turn your project into a feature be offered a place on the 24 month version Filmmaking new routes and (although we are confident that many productions being filmed by full-time length production, building on the insights of the course. It is your responsibility to techniques to students will achieve this). students during this period. you have learnt over the course. The work with the development manager to Course location getting a film made All students will graduate with a projects will normally need to be completed develop the project so it can be approved and released wealth of professional contacts, a Practicum to an ‘off-line’ standard with a stereo mix. for production. Bristol Studios stunning showreel, a fully developed This double module is where theory You should expect to work 12–14 hour and Corsham Applications feature film project and the knowledge and practice come together in the days for six days a week when filming and Employability Court Centre and contacts for how to get ahead in the production and postproduction of editing. It is expected that most productions Our assumption is that students taking Application forms film business. a feature length project. will involve four–six weeks for principal this programme are committed to working Course length are available on the The aim is that at the end of the MA in photography. The projects will then go in the feature film industry as creative website and for any Feature Filmmaking you will have received From Script to Screen – Low into a period of editing of 10–12 weeks filmmakers, who understand that a - MA full-time three admissions enquires a thorough education in the needs and Budget Production Techniques to arrive at a version of the film that is detailed knowledge of the film business trimesters (one please contact: techniques of the micro-budget film This module introduces and explores suitable for screening to distributors will be central to their future success, calendar year). T: +44 (0)1225 875624 business and have the skills to be able practical and creative techniques, and agencies to seek further as is a strong sense of story telling. The - MA part-time six E: admissions@ to negotiate favourable terms for your approaches and strategies of low completion funding. structure and aims of the course provide trimesters. bathspa.ac.uk current (and future) feature projects to budget feature documentary and fiction a route to exploiting film assets in global - PG Dip full-time be distributed. production. This gives an overview where Teaching methods and resources markets as well as using a low budget two trimesters. Enquiries There are two durations of the MA in key skills are developed building on your This MA is taught in an executive format feature to prove your skills as a long- - PG Dip part-time Feature Filmmaking – full time over 12 previous knowledge. You will refine your of intensive workshops and seminars. form filmmaker. four trimesters. Please contact Dr months and part time over 24 months. personal project during this module by You will be based at Bath Spa premises This experience will lead some - PG Cert full-time Terence Rodgers, learning advanced editorial, scripting in Bristol and at the University’s Corsham producers and directors into contracts one trimester. Department of Film Modules and stylistic approaches to feature Court Centre in Wiltshire. on other films, TV drama or drama and Media Workshop modules film production. These offer studio facilities and the documentaries. Producers will build Fees Production: These are practical and creative filmmaking latest editing software, lights and video up a series of skills, contacts, and T: +44 (0)1225 875659 workshops, which give you the techniques From Pitch to Production – the cameras including Sony F3 and Canon experience that will allow them to Please see page E: t.rodgers@ for feature film production for low budget International Film Business DSLR 5D and 7D, together with first develop subsequent projects with 12 for full details. bathspa.ac.uk film production. In workshop modules you To compete in the global film business class tutorial and lecture rooms. greater support. are taught by Bath Spa academic staff, with low budget practitioners will be required Other students may wish to Key Features experience in documentary or drama to understand the historical development, Tutors pursue academic work as lecturers production, and/or by industry professionals. business systems, procedures and models The modules in the MA are taught by and practitioners. Another career route - A chance to that influence the global film business. both practising industry professionals open to graduates will be to use their make your own Context modules This module allows you to understand and by specialist academic staff from the subsequent project as part of a creative feature film Context modules are offered in the belief how and why the Hollywood model still Department of Film and Media Production PhD at Bath Spa or other bodies. that filmmakers will only reap the rewards dominates feature film production. Other careers can involve working of their creative skills if they have an Assessment methods with arts organisations like the BFI, adequate understanding of the industry, Planning for Success – Pre-production You are assessed through continuous Creative England, regional screen 01 On location at the Royal Crescent in Bath the financial and legal frameworks and This module builds on the first two assessment. Assessment tasks will agencies such as Film London or 02-03 Cutting edge filmmaking equipment the operation of these systems. These modules to give you the ability to further be varied, including group presentations, South West Screen. 04 Setting up a scene Bath Spa University School of Humanities and Cultural Industries 42 / 43 Heritage Management
01 02 Employability The ways in which we understand and Careers in the heritage sector include manage ‘heritage’ are changing rapidly, roles in collections management, education and learning, exhibition while the physical remains of our past – planning and implementation, community engagement and outreach, and marketing buildings, landscapes, city streets, archives, and fundraising. You might also become artefacts and archaeological sites – and the involved in operational management, 03 events planning, retail and visitor services. intangible associations of tradition, language Not everyone will want a job in the ‘heritage industry’. Therefore, the course and memory continue to shape the ways in includes a range of generic skills and opportunities which are aimed at which we live our lives. increasing employability for Bath Spa postgraduates in the voluntary sector, This course poses challenging questions management, and will reflect both your social enterprises, fundraising, and a wide about our thinking and practice, and offers needs and interests and the changing range of administrative and management students the opportunity to explore this nature of the sector itself. It has been roles. As well as studying heritage through a series of practical projects, designed to provide everyone with a common management, you will be fostering links working in partnership with a wide range starting point, but it also offers a chance to with external partners and with other of heritage organisations across Bath, explore particular themes and to become departments across the University. the region, and beyond. We will help you involved in substantial pieces of work. These may be the connections which set heritage in its social, political and help lead you into other roles, including economic context, and support you in a Modules education, the cultural industries or to series of placements so that you can see Developing Heritage Thinking and self-employment. how this plays out on the ground, for real. practice for the 21st Century 04 05 This module introduces the key concepts “ I want to know the relationship between we will use throughout the course, and this wooden object … and where it has been. asks how far heritage practice has kept I want to be able to reach the handle of the pace with changes in heritage thinking door and turn it and feel it open. I want to and in society, politics and the economy. be able to walk into each room where this It poses two major questions: How did object has lived, to feel the volume of the we get here and where next? space, to know what pictures were on the walls, how the light fell from the windows. Leadership, Management and Governance And I want to know whose hands it has How are heritage organisations managed? been in, and what they felt and thought How can they meet current challenges? about it – if they thought about it. I want What skills will you need to meet the future to know what it has witnessed.” needs of the sector? This module will give Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber everyone the opportunity to consider the Awards - A skills-based Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance (Chatto & practical challenges involved in managing course which Windus, 2010) a heritage attraction. - Master of Arts combines (MA) Heritage practical activities, The hare with amber eyes – a tiny Japanese Understanding and Analysing Management placements and netsuke – is part of de Waal’s personal Current Practice - Postgraduate projects with robust inheritance, knotted into the threads of This module revisits the thinking Diploma (PG Dip) thinking and family and world history, but the questions we explored during the first trimester Heritage analysis he asks of it belong to us all. We are moved and applies it to current examples of Management - Your opportunity by the evidence of the past because of what heritage practice. This module will take - Postgraduate to work in an it is, whether a torn family photograph or you beneath the surface of a new gallery, Certificate (PG Cert) outstanding the soaring arches of a great cathedral; a restored garden, or a period interior, Heritage heritage setting, the pages of a letter or the sweep of a and ask you to consider: why this? It will Management including the battlefield. We are moved by the stories enable you to develop a more sophisticated World Heritage contained in such fragments, and by the understanding of the ways in which the Course location Sites of Bath and events they witnessed. heritage sector really works. Stonehenge- This course asks the same questions Corsham Avebury of historic buildings, museum collections, Supported Placement sector. These will be complemented Assessment methods Court campus parks and gardens, archaeological sites, The placement provides you with an by guest lectures, offering you the chance You will be assessed through a mix Applications public and private archives. It also asks opportunity to undertake a substantial to become involved in thinking about of project work, formal essays, reports Course length questions about the ways in which these piece of work, supported by workshops major heritage issues as they develop. and a final Dissertation or Project. Your Application forms resources are managed, presented and led by leading heritage practitioners, There will also be practical sessions, final project might include producing a - MA full-time three are available on the explained, and explores these through many of whom will continue to act as encompassing research skills, financial film, developing a website, or preparing trimesters (one website. For any a series of encounters with heritage mentors throughout the rest of the management and business planning, learning materials for a range of different calendar year) admissions enquiries practitioners and heritage places. What module. Your placement might involve project planning and implementation and audiences. Alternatively, a more traditional - MA part-time six please contact: challenges are heritage bodies currently work on funding and fundraising, information literacy. These will be tailored Dissertation might lead you to further trimesters T: +44(0)1225 875624 facing? What choices do they make in developing volunteers, researching for you and the organisations you research and a PhD. - PG Dip full-time E: admissions@ dealing with them? How will pressures collections, or marketing, communications work with. two trimesters bathspa.ac.uk on public funding for heritage in the UK – and advocacy. We see this as the focal We will be making extensive use of Entry requirements - PG Dip part-time and further afield – shape our experience point of the course, and potentially of the extraordinary heritage of Bath and Applicants will normally have a four trimesters Enquiries of visiting and working in museums and enormous value to you and to the the surrounding area, including the good first degree (2.1 or above) in - PG Cert full-time heritage sites in the future? And how will organisations with whom you’ll be working. University’s own campuses at Corsham any academic subject. Applicants one trimester For all enquiries our wider understanding of heritage Court, where this course is based, and without a first degree may be considered about the course, change as a result? Final Project or Dissertation the main site at Newton Park. A number if they can demonstrate considerable Fees please contact Trying to answer such questions Your final project may represent an of major capital projects in the region relevant experience; they may be asked course director provides a framework for practical work extension of your placement work, the have recently come to an end or are now to attend an interview. Please see page Dr Alison Hems: in the sector, underpinned by hands-on, opportunity to complete a new project, nearing completion, and you will have If English is not your first language 12 for full details. T: +44(0)1225 876363 supportive teaching. As well as thinking or a more traditional, research-based opportunities to consider these in depth, then you will need to provide evidence E: a.hems@ about heritage, we want you to become dissertation. Project work might involve exploring the challenges involved in of proficiency in written and spoken Key Features bathspa.ac.uk involved in a range of projects, working preparing a learning programme, initiating and implementing schemes English. The normal minimum with our partners in local, regional and accompanied by appropriate materials; on such an ambitious scale. There are requirement for admission onto - A chance to national heritage organisations, and to producing a film or developing a website. two World Heritage Sites on the one of the programmes is an overall develop your own 01 The new modern extension to the gain experience on the ground. University’s doorstep: the iconic landscape score of 6. 5 on the British Council experience and Holburne Museum Teaching methods and resources of Stonehenge and Avebury and the City of IELTS test or 600 on the TOEFL test. understanding in Bath Course structure and content The course will be delivered mainly Bath itself. Managing these involves lots of The British Council organises regular partnership with 02 The Last Drop 03 Detail of a historic door The course offers a broad basis for through intensive workshops, often run partners and a range of complex issues, language tests in most countries. leading players in 04 The Roman Baths developing your skills in heritage by leaders in their own field in the heritage and we will be analysing a number of these. the heritage sector 04 Stonehenge Bath Spa University School of Humanities and Cultural Industries www.bathspa.ac.uk Literature and Landscape
of computer mapping techniques within 01 02 The MA in Literature literary studies as well as within cultural and Landscape geography are more recent developments which this MA will exploit. It will enable examines how students to address such questions as: how does literature debate humanity’s literature reflects relationship with ‘Nature’? How do the conventions of representing various and shapes the way landscapes change over time? What makes in which we see the ‘the country’ or ‘the wild’ what it is? How is ‘the city’ characterised in literature? How landscape and the does literature represent environmental destruction? Is it influenced by modern environment and it environmental movements?
gives students the Course structure and content opportunity to study The programme aims to provide students with an excitingly wide range of issues and the kind of analyses approaches in relation to the representations that are becoming of various kinds of landscapes. It will present: - a mix of thematic topics, types increasingly important of landscape and regions to the direction of - a balance between literature pre– and post–1900 modern English - a range of methodologies (for example Marxism, historicism; ecocriticism; Environmental Writing and Ecocriticism (ECCO), Early English Books Online (EEBO), and private sector research careers, literary studies. archival research; mapping technology) Two topics from the indicative list below British History Online, and GEOBASE. book and publishing industries) - although its main focus is literary, will be offered each year: ‘Place and Students will also be to able to gain access - Environmental sector and ‘Green’ careers Why choose this course? inevitably – given the subject – material Ecology’; ‘20thC. American nature writing’; to research libraries such as the British (e.g. advocacy, communications, charities, The MA draws upon our staff’s culture or real places may also be ‘Postwar British nature writing’; Library and the Bodleian Library. We also education, internships, ecotourism, internationally recognised expertise examined (for example the iconography ‘Representations of Canadian wilderness’; have established links with bodies such urban planning) in the field; our location in a World and design of an English Country Estate; ‘Colonial/postcolonial natures’; as the Science Museum collection at - Heritage and tourism sector (for Heritage site; and it offers tremendous the materiality of the London Lord ‘Contemporary environmental fictions’; Swindon and Bath Central Library, as well example, charities and trusts, visitor opportunities for students Mayor’s show; the Eden Project; the ‘Globalising environments’; ‘The as our close connections with archives at centres, private estates, local to access unique regional resources. specific topography of journeys environmental tradition in English literature’. the city of London (for example, the London government, planning, management, or locales). Metropolitan Archives, the Guildhall Library, communications) “ The first hour was allotted to making Chorographies: case studies in region and the Centre for Metropolitan History at - Creative industries (for example, radio, themselves comfortable, for they Teaching and learning on the taught or place the Institute of Historical Research). TV, cable and satellite broadcasters, complained of having a very dirty walk, modules will primarily be via seminars, Two topics from the indicative list below In addition, the MA draws upon Bath book publishing, web media, news as they came on foot from Snow-Hill, but the programme will also include will be offered each year: ‘Georgian Bath’; Spa University’s location in a World Heritage and magazine media). where Mr Branghton keeps a silver- opportunities for research skills ‘Environmental writers of south-west Site and in a region with many unique smith’s shop; and the young ladies had workshops, presentations, field-work England’; ‘Early modern London’; ‘Gothic literary and historical associations. The Award and regions (for not only their coats to brush, and shoes to and independent research associated London’; ‘Modernism and rural/suburban region has specific associations with writers example: urban, dry, but to adjust their head-dress, which with the Dissertation or Project. Assessment London’; ‘Postcolonial London’; ‘Writing from the past: for example, Coleridge, Master of Arts wild, natural, their bonnets had totally discomposed”. will be via essays, proposals, and a final Los Angeles’; ‘Twentieth-century Dublin’; Nether Stowey and the Quantock Hills; (MA) in Literature British, American). Fanny Burney, Evelina (1778) Dissertation or Project. ‘Hardy and Wessex’; ‘Wordsworth’s lakes’; Hardy, Dorchester and ‘Wessex’; Pope, and Landscape. - Offers the ‘Literary journeys’. Fielding, Burney, Austen and Bath. The opportunity for “ The casual glimpses which the ordinary Modules South West has also been a fruitful locale Course location field-work with, population bestowed upon that wondrous The programme will consist of one Dissertation/Project for contemporary environmentally- for example, world of sap and leaves called the Hintock 30-credit research methods module; Students can opt for either a traditional conscious writings and is the location of Corsham regional heritage woods had been with these two, Giles three 30-credit core modules; one written Dissertation or the Project. The the landmark ecology programme, the Court campus organisations, and Marty, a clear gaze. They had been 60-credit dissertation/project module. Project offers students the opportunity Eden Project. resources or possessed of its finer mysteries as of to create a different output, and it can The region is blessed with many fine Course length archives. commonplace knowledge; had been able Research Methods and Writing for take the form of an applied research examples of that iconic vision of the English to read its hieroglyphs as ordinary writing”. Postgraduate English Studies or knowledge-transfer type project (for landscape, the landscaped country estate. - One year full-time Applications Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders (1887) Enables students to make the transition example, the use of cultural geography In the immediate region one can find, for - Two years part-time from undergraduate work to researching mapping techniques). This module will example, Stourhead, Prior Park, Dryham Application forms These scenes, from two novels over a and writing English studies at postgraduate also include the opportunity to further Park and Bowood House, in addition to Fees are available on the hundred years apart, both depend upon level. This module will be an introduction pursue links with external organisations our own campuses at Newton Park and website and for any ways of reading the landscape. Burney’s to postgraduate-level research strategies and some refresher workshops on Corsham Court. Stourhead (NT), for instance, Please see page admissions enquiries depiction of the Branghton daughters alongside the focused study of literary texts. research skills. offers a learning space with talks and 12 for full details. please contact: depends on the reader being able to access to archival material, and has T: +44 (0)1225 875624 decipher the social geography of Core modules Teaching methods and resources welcomed the prospect of students Funding E: admissions@ London: the women have come from the In order that we can offer as wide and The MA is founded upon our staff’s shadowing the estate guides. bathspa.ac.uk mercantile middle-class City to the elite varied a programme as possible the core expertise and substantial publications We are also uniquely positioned to Studentships and fashionable West – and on foot too modules below will act as a ‘shell’ module: record in the areas of ecocriticism, build links with other regional organisations; available – see page Enquiries rather than by coach – and their aspirations each will consist of two themed strands. contemporary environmental writing, for example, environmental organisations 12 for full details of fashionability are subtly derided. Hardy’s Opportunities for field trips and/or directed early modern London, postmodern (such as the RSPB or the Forestry Please contact portrait of Giles and Marty as themselves research trips may be offered as an American cities, and literary journeys in Commission), country estates, the National Key Features course director readers of the landscape also implicates alternative to seminars, depending upon modernist/postmodernist literature. One Trust, English Heritage, Bath Preservation Dr Stephen Gregg: the reader of the novel with the suggestion the nature of the thematic strand. of the programme’s staff is chair of the UK Trust, archives at Dorchester (Hardy) and - Internationally- T: +44(0)1225 875482 that we, unlike them, have no longer such branch of the Association for the Study of places of literary heritage tourism (such recognised staff E: s.gregg@ an innate and Edenic ability to read the The Country and the City in History Literature and the Environment: its journal as the homes of Austen, Hardy, T. E. expertise. bathspa.ac.uk world of ‘sap and leaves’. Two topics from the indicative list below Green Letters is published via the Artswork Lawrence, Coleridge, John Cowper Powys). - Access to unique Ever since Raymond Williams’ seminal will be offered each year: ‘The politics project at Bath Spa University. The MA regional resources study The Country and the City, literary of place in early modern literature’; draws upon and is supported by three Entry requirements and a location in a 01 View of the lake at the critics have become increasingly conscious ‘Civic and national consciousness in early research centres: Book, Text and Place We expect all applicants to have a good World Heritage Site. Newton Park campus of the way landscape is represented. This modern literature’; ‘Staging the nation 1500–1750; Contemporary Writing; honours degree (2:1 or above), in an area of - Examines literary 02 Bench alongside the path that runs on the has gained considerable momentum with in early modern London’; ‘The city and Writing and the Environment and students literary studies or related humanities subject. works from a broad edge of the Blackmore the spatial and environmental turns of the the country estate from Marvell to Austen’; will become members of the research historical range Vale from the Dorset 1990s and the rapid growth of ecocriticism ‘Transforming poetry: industry in centres and, therefore, part of the School’s Employability (Early Modern Gap to Bull Barrow Hill – the path is the route – literary criticism focused on the landscapes of the eighteenth century’; research culture. Typical career destinations include: period to the Tess takes from representation of the natural world and ‘Colonial landscapes and the metropolis Our Library offers access to high- - Traditional English postgraduate present) and covers Flintcomb Ash Farm environmentally-conscious writings. in the eighteenth century’, ‘Romanticism quality electronic resources such as destinations (for example, higher a wide range of to Martock, in Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of Literary heritage tourism and the use and Ecocriticism’. Eighteenth-century Collections Online research degree programmes, public landscapes the D’Urbervilles. Bath Spa University School of Humanities and Cultural Industries 44 / 45 Scriptwriting
and the different media. But the emphasis reworking of earlier pieces, but will often 02 The MA in Scriptwriting is on how to tell a story – a well made plot. be completely new work. At the end of is a professional Students will read and view widely, but the September students submit this script. academic side is not separate from the The final assessment is based on training course for working side. This module is to help three things. The most important is this you write. script. The second is a 3,000 word essay working writers. The other module in the first trimester explaining exactly where in the market is a workshop in Writing Theatre and it is aimed and how it is shaped to fit that Why choose this course? Radio. This is delivered in three intensive niche. The third is a cold pitch for this script. Most scriptwriters work across several weekends. All of the time is devoted to When we speak of the market, we are media, and the course reflects this. All our the students’ own work, and much of the thinking quite broadly. Some students tutors are working writers. We aim to turn time we work on our feet. At the end of the will want to write for Hollywood, British out writers who understand the structure trimester each student finishes a 45 to independent films, soap operas, or theatre. and craft of drama, have a finished script 60 minute play or radio script, and a 3,000 Others will want to write radio plays, they can use as a calling card, know the word essay that explains the structure of documentaries, puppet shows, theatre industry in all its variety, and can pitch and that script. in education, training videos or school sell their work. The second trimester, from February plays. The emphasis is, however, always The MA is taught in seventeen weekends to June, also has two modules. One on getting your work to a produceable form. of intensive workshops. It is not, however, is Professional Skills, again over three ‘low residency’. There are as many hours intensive weekends. All our experience is Teaching methods and resources of teaching as on Bath Spa University’s that the ability to write alone is not enough All courses will be taught by intensive established MA in Creative Writing. to make your way in the various industries workshops. Over the years we have found The course is taught at our beautiful of theatre, television, film and radio. You this is far and away the most productive Corsham Court campus where we are also need to be able to pitch, and to talk way of teaching writing. It is particularly Assessment methods Having an MA qualification in Scriptwriting developing performance, capture and intelligently and flexibly about your own suited to scriptwriting, which is very much Assessment is by coursework only. should show potential employers that editing facilities. We also work closely with work and others’. One of our tutors facilitates a social and collective art. In the first two trimesters work will be I have the dedication and determination the School of Music and Performing Arts, this module, and various industry assessed as work in progress. The final required to build a career in this highly and their students will have the opportunity professionals come in for a day each Tutors and visiting professionals submission will be examined on the script competitive field. The experience that to help act in and produce our work. to inform, rehearse and challenge you. All of our tutors are writers working in (60%), and the essay on the market and the I have gained through editing and Although this is an intellectually The other module this trimester is the industry. Among those working on pitch (40%). formulating feedback on other students’ challenging postgraduate course, there Workshop in Screenwriting, also over the course will be: scripts will hopefully be advantageous is no ‘academic’ side detached from the three weekends. Here you write a script Entry requirements when applying for a job as a script reader working side. Everything theoretical is for film or television. We pay particular - Ursula Rani Sarma (Course Director) Most students accepted onto the course or script editor for a production company.” geared to help the students as writers. attention to genre, to the visual and time writer for theatre, radio and screen will have either a first degree or a thorough The MA in Scriptwriting also offers requirements of the screen, and to writing - Steve May who writes radio and novels professional training in acting, theatre, 03 each of its students a free copy of Final for particular markets. At the end of this - Robin Mukherjee who writes theatre, television, or film. Some students, however, Draft scriptwriting software, a must for trimester each student finishes 50 to 60 television and film will be accepted on the basis of equivalent professional Scriptwriters. minutes of TV, or a short film script, or - Hattie Naylor who writes film, theatre, life experience. Applicants are asked to a treatment for a full-length film plus radio and opera libretti submit one or two pieces of creative writing Course structure and content at least 45 minutes of polished script. - Jonathan Neale who writes theatre, with their application form, about twenty The course is full-time from October to The third trimester runs from June to radio and novels pages in all. This can be part of a novel, September, or part-time over two years, the end of September. Here there is only short stories, poems, or script. Do not and is taught in modules. The first trimester one double module, the Final Script In the second semester we have visits assume it has to be drama. Submit your runs from October to January and there Workshop. This is taught in workshop from several professionals in the industry. best work rather than your best script. are two modules, each delivered in three sessions over two intensive weekends Each conducts a one-day workshop with intensive weekends. and a single Saturday between June students, outlining the industry and giving Student profile One is the module on Dramatic and September. them rigorous practice in pitching their Hannah Willcock Structure. This aims to give you an In this module each student writes a work. Typically, we will have an agent, a MA Scriptwriting 2010 Award intellectually understanding of the full range of ways full length play, a full length film script, TV producer, a radio producer, a theatre – serious. that plays and scripts can work. You are or the equivalent in television or radio. director or literary manager, and a film “In the third year of my undergraduate MA Scriptwriting - The course is introduced to dialogue, character, genre, This script can be a development and script editor. degree in Creative Writing with English taught at our Language & Linguistics, I did a module in Course location Corsham Court 01 screenwriting, which I particularly enjoyed. campus where I discovered that scriptwriting provided the Corsham Court we are developing opportunity to be as creative as when writing campus performance, prose, yet within a specified structure. capture and editing I chose to do the MA in Scriptwriting to Course length facilities. learn more about this structure, and how it operates across the different mediums - One year full-time Applications of theatre, radio, television and film. from October I chose Bath Spa because the university to September. Application forms has excellent connections with practising - Some students are available on the industry professionals. The course also may be accepted website and for any gives students the opportunity to write to do the course admissions enquiries scripts for all four mediums; theatre, part- time over please contact: radio, television and film. Many of the two years. T: +44 (0)1225 875624 courses I looked at only focused on one E: admissions@ area, yet the reality is that most working Fees bathspa.ac.uk writers cross-over to different mediums. Bath Spa has a great campus and Please see page Enquiries a very relaxed atmosphere in which to 12 for full details. study. The best thing about the course Please contact is that the tutors are so helpful and Funding course director approachable. They are all working Ursula Rani Sarma: writers themselves, so are able to provide AHRC Studentships T: +44 (0)1225 876358 invaluable insights into how the industry available – see page E: u.sarma@ is operating now. The tutors also have a 12 for full details bathspa.ac.uk lot of professional contacts in the fields of writing, producing and directing, who Key Features will visit the class to answer questions, share their insights, and offer advice - We expect the based on their own experiences. The atmosphere on course has given me a lot of confidence the course to be in myself and my abilities, and my tutors 01 A basic film set relaxed, playful, 02 Theatre script in action and fellow students have encouraged me supportive and 03 Hannah Willcock, all the way. MA Scriptwriting 2010 Bath Spa University School of Humanities and Cultural Industries www.bathspa.ac.uk Travel and Nature Writing
tutorial and peer critiques. Students 01 01 Enjoying nature The Master of Arts in Travel and Nature will read extensively and are expected 02 Golden eagle over mountains to be familiar with the subject and its 03 Coin operated Writing is designed for writers seeking contextual literature. binoculars on Lycabettus advanced skills in the growing field of creative Hill on top of Athens Tutors city, Greece. non-fiction inspired by the natural world and Bath Spa University can draw on the experience of professional writers, contemporary journeying. tutors and industry professionals of the highest standard. Why choose this course? Modules The course focuses on the application The course begins with an intense six- Assessment methods of writing skills to match the requirements day residential session for induction, The course totals 180 credits: modules of the travel and nature writing sector. introduction to distance learning, taught in the first semester account for 30 To this end, students will learn from modules and mentoring sessions. The credits, the second semester also engagement, encounter, workshop, first two semesters involves writing accounts for 30 credits, professional tuition and mentoring; they will develop regular pieces which are critiqued by practice develops through semesters their professional practice and produce tutors and peers. Through a business one and two accounting for 30 credits a portfolio of work to help establish their and context module, students can explore and the portfolio amassed throughout all 02 careers in this highly competitive field. the ethics, history and development of a three semesters accounts for 90 credits. Award particular area of travel or nature writing. Course structure and content The second residency takes place in Entry requirements Master of Arts This is a low residency course over January or February. Throughout the A first degree, a formal application, (MA) in Travel and three semesters. It will normally course students will develop a portfolio samples of travel and/or nature Nature Writing consist of three week-long residential of their best work and a journal tracking writing and interview. sessions, meeting visiting writers and their submissions to publications; in this Course location industry specialists; distance learning they will be supported by a mentor. The Employability modules designed to familiarise third residency will involve fieldwork, The course is designed to introduce - Corsham participants with the standards, interests normally outside the UK. students to the workings of various Court campus and publishing requirements of the travel and nature writing publishing - Distance learning sector; one-to-one tutorials and Teaching methods and resources opportunities and prepare them for with residential mentoring providing the opportunity Face-to-face seminars during intensive the submission of their own work. It sessions or to turn experience into well-crafted residency weeks, individual tutorials, will also equip them with the practical equivalent writing of publication standard. directed study in writing and rewriting, and business skills to operate as online tutorials, Wikis, discussion boards, freelance writers. Course length
- MA low residency 03 (one calendar year) - Two residencies in UK - One residency outside of UK
Fees
Please see page 12 for full details.
Key Features
- Applied creative non-fiction, hands-on experience, tuition from industry professionals. - Ideal for writers inspired by the natural world and contemporary journeying ambitious to become published professionals.
Applications
Application forms are available on the website and for any admissions enquiries please contact: T: +44(0)1225 875624 E: admissions@ bathspa.ac.uk
Enquiries
Please contact course director Dr Paul Evans: T: +44(0)1225 875875 E: p.a.evans@ bathspa.ac.uk Bath Spa University School of Humanities and Cultural Industries 46 / 47 Writing for Young People
01 in 11 weekly three hour sessions on the 03 Corsham Court campus. The manuscript is taught via one-to-one tutorials, working with a tutor with particular knowledge of your field of work. Throughout the course, there will be special events to bring in writers to discuss their work, plus literary agents and editors with practical advice on the publishing process. Our writer in residence in 2011 was Marcus Sedgwick.
Tutors This course is taught by publishing writers and depending on timetables will include: Student profile Maudie Smith, MA Writing for Young - Julia Green: her novels for young adults People 2010 include Blue Moon, Baby Blue and – Hunter’s Heart (Puffin), Breathing “I chose to do the MA in Writing for Underwater and Drawing with Light Young People as I felt it would give me the (Bloomsbury) confidence to take myself seriously as a - Steve May: author of Dazzer Plays writer and to confirm for me the areas of On and One Chance (Egmont). writing to which my style was most suited. - Jonathan Neale: his novels for children Also, to help me find the self-discipline to are Lost at Sea and Himalaya. write regularly. It has done all this. The - Mimi Thebo: author of Wipe Out, Hit the course was also strongly recommended Road Jack, Get Real (Harper Collins); to me by previous graduates. Drawing Together (Walker). I thoroughly enjoyed the friendly - Steve Voake: his novels include The atmosphere at Bath Spa and the rather Dreamwalker’s Child, The Web of Fire, luxurious environment at Corsham Court The Starlight Conspiracy, Blood Hunters, – peacocks included! I particularly liked Fightback and Dark Woods (Faber & the way the workshops were run in an Faber), plus his Daisy Dawson and atmosphere of supportiveness and Novels by Gill Lewis, Sam Gayton, Elen with tutors who are practising and Hooey Higgins series for younger encouragement. We all very quickly became This specialist creative Caldecott, Jim Carrington, Alex Diaz, published writers in their field. readers (Walker Books). much more astute critics of each other’s Marie-Louise Jensen, Sally Nicholls work and also of our own work. I felt writing MA course and C.J. Skuse and picture books by Karen Modules Assessment methods very inspired by the opportunity to explore Hughes have all been published in the last Writing Workshops The assessed coursework for each Writing enlists the expertise published children’s literature and to five years. ‘Ways to Live Forever’ by Sally In the first semester’s writing workshop Workshop is a folder of creative writing. attempt writing for all ages – from picture Nicholls won the Waterstones Children’s you will explore a variety of formats and For the first Context Module the coursework of our team of writer- books for the very young to writing for Book of the Year Award and the Glen approaches, gaining a sense of the different is an essay of approximately 2,500 words teenagers and young adults. lecturers, five of Dimplex New Writers Award 2008. age-ranges and forms. This is also an and a folder of creative responses. The Since finishing the course I have secured Marie-Louise Jensen and Elen Caldecott introduction to the writing workshop second context module is assessed by a a three book deal with Orion Publishers whom are currently were both shortlisted for the 2009 experience which is the heart of the course. portfolio of writing tasks connected to the for my Opal Moonbaby stories – novels for Waterstones Prize, and Elen was longlisted In the second semester’s workshop you children’s publishing industry, including published in the field 7–10 year olds. I am currently writing the for the Carnegie award for ‘How Kirsty will be asked to choose your area of writing, two book proposals. The manuscript is second of these books. Having the name Jenkins Stole the Elephant’. and use the workshop’s feedback and 35,000–40,000 words, or the equivalent of children’s writing. It of the course on one’s CV is alone a big help encouragement to explore it in more depth. in poetry or picture book texts. in opening doors. The course has given is supported by visiting Course structure and content Full-time students take one writing me the ability to be critical of my work while The course is for writers for children of all workshop in Semester One and one in Entry requirements inspiring me with the confidence to believe speakers from the ages, from the picture-book age through Semester Two. Part-time students take We offer places on the basis of our that I can write and get published too. to adolescent and ‘crossover’ writing which one workshop each year. assessment of the student’s quality, children’s publishing The course definitely lives up to its aims at markets among adults as well as potential and commitment as a writer reputation. If you’re serious about writing young people. Though prose fiction is Context Modules and their ability to benefit from the course. world, including and have a big idea, or maybe a few likely to be the main area studied, students Each full-time student takes one of these Normally, but not invariably, a student will half-finished projects stuffed in a drawer agents, editors, will have the chance to look at writing in in the first semester and one in the second have a degree. Applicants will need to somewhere, go to Bath Spa and refresh all forms, including poetry, picture book semester. The first semester’s context submit a short piece of creative writing for your mind and your interest. Keep an open publishers and texts and non-fiction. module, Writing for Young People: Forms, young people with their application form: mind and things may well flourish for you. The course supports students to create Ages and Stages, is concerned with the for example, six poems or two short authors. Not only will you be a better writer by the a significant body of writing, with practical writer’s relationship with their audience, stories or not more than 20 pages of a novel. end of the MA, you’ll also have the plans for its place in the real world of a sense of the history of and issues raised Leading Children’s Literary Agent Jodie opportunity to meet many published publishing. It is based on the principle by children’s writing. The second semester’s Employability Marsh (United Agents) offers an annual writers, agents and editors and discover that most writers learn and benefit from module looks at Contemporary Children’s Most of our students want a career prize for the ‘most promising writer for all the ins and outs of the publishing world.” young people’. We have an excellent track working closely with their fellow writers, Publishing, and aims to give a realistic as a published children’s author, record of graduates achieving publication. in a disciplined supportive setting, and grasp of the choices open to new writers and many have gone on to achieve 01 Publications from staff and students in the field. Part-time students take one this. Others have found work in the 02 Children reading 03 Maudie Smith, MA Writing for Young People of these modules in each year of study. children’s publishing industry, or in 02 libraries, bookshops and teaching or Manuscript other work with young people. writing for children Applications This is the development of a manuscript and young adults. as near to publishable quality as possible. - Taught by Application forms It is supported by tutorials with a manuscript experienced are available on the supervisor. It may be a novel, a book of Award Fees lecturers who website and for any stories, a collection of poems or picture are all published admissions enquiries book texts. MA Writing for Please see page writers for children. please contact: Young People 12 for full details. - Excellent links with T: +44 (0)1225 875624 Teaching methods and resources authors, agents and E: admissions@ The course is modular and offered for full Course location Funding publishers, and a bathspa.ac.uk and part-time study. Part-time students programme of take the same course over a two-year Corsham Court AHRC Studentships visiting speakers. Enquiries period, taking one module each semester. campus available – see page - Annual prize for Students complete four taught modules 12 for full details the ‘most promising Please contact (two writing workshops and two context Course length writing for young course director modules) plus a manuscript (double Key Features people’ awarded Julia Green: module). - One year full-time by a leading T: +44 (0)1225 875693 Modules are normally taught via - Two years part-time - Creative writing literary agent E: j.a.green@ tutor-led writing workshops, organised MA specialising in bathspa.ac.uk Bath Spa University School of Music and Performing Arts www.bathspa.ac.uk School of Music and Performing Arts
Joe Bennett, Head of School “ The School is a vibrant and creative community of students and staff – over 1000 musicians, actors, dancers, composers, choreographers, writers, producers and technicians. Performance is at the heart of what we do, and our Bath Spa Live programme combines visits by internationally- renowned musicians, theatre and dance companies with frequent student performances, both on campus and in professional venues.” Taught postgraduate degrees Creative Sound and Media Technology Performance Songwriting Performing Shakespeare Theatre for Young Audiences Bath Spa University School of Music and Performing Arts 48 / 49 Bath Spa University School of Music and Performing Arts www.bathspa.ac.uk Creative Sound and Media Technology
01 02 from undergraduate-level project work to the sort of projects that will be undertaken in Semesters 2 and 3. Students will choose three from a wide selection of such projects. In each case, the student will undertake a small practical project and also submit an evaluative log of the technology concerned.
Context and Methodology This module is intended to fulfil the requirements of a research methodology module. However, since a large part of the this programme is practice-based, and the methodology for this aspect of students’ work will be covered by other modules in the programme, it is intended to combine a study of research methodology with a study of context in terms of the student’s own practice – specifically of 03 a set of paradigms that characterise the field’s current, creative boundaries. The primary teaching method for this module will be a weekly lecture/seminar, with some tutorial sessions that focus on pathway specialism. The assessment item will be a 5000–word topic review, demonstrating an understanding of the methodologies covered by the module and an awareness of the contextual siting of the student’s own practice.
Trimester 2 disciplines (film– and theatre-makers, Electroacoustic Composition dancers and choreographers etc.) as well and Performance (option) as musicians. The third trimester is This module will centre around a weekly research-based, with students seminar series. Each seminar will look at undertaking an individual Major Project a set of techniques and their application which allows them to explore a chosen within a creative framework. These will area in depth. range from classic techniques derived from the fields of Musique Concrete, Modules Elektronische Musik and Computer Music to contemporary techniques from areas Trimester 1 such as Acousmatic Art, Soundscape, Skills Portfolio Microsound and Electronica, as well as This module is offered to allow students incorporating elements of performance to garner any technical and creative skills practice where relevant. Students will they will need for the rest of the course. produce a portfolio of creative practical It is recognised that students at this level work exploring these techniques, as well will already have a strong skill-set, but also as a self-evaluative written assignment that they may have areas they wish to which will explore the application of these strengthen, or indeed areas they have not techniques to their individual practice. previously engaged with. Students will be offered a selection of skills-based ‘bolt- Visual Music (option) ons’ – small, self-contained bespoke A weekly seminar series will explore the practical projects based around particular history of visual music, from pre-cinema technical (in the broadest sense) skills. artists such as Kandinsky and Klee, through The skills on offer will cover a broad range Early Abstract Cinema pioneers such as of styles and approaches, and will be of on multimedia-based skills as part of the of sound and media skills. This will provide Max Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar This course is interest to those involved in such areas Skills Portfolio module, while the optional an opportunity for students from different Fischinger, to the modernist, fluxus and intended primarily for as electro-acoustic/acousmatic music, Visual Music module will give further backgrounds to reach a parity in terms of underground artists of the 60s and 70s soundscape, acoustic ecology, computer opportunities to specialise in this area skill set, and will also provide a progression (the Whitney Brothers, Mark Boyle, Glenn those with experience music, sound/sonic art, electronica, in trimester 2. visual music and audiovisual work. 04 of music technology The emphasis of the course is largely Course structure and content practical, giving students the opportunity In full-time mode, the course runs over who wish to explore to produce a substantial body of creative three trimesters, September to September. the field in more work over the duration of the course. The first trimester gives a thorough Students engage with a wide variety of grounding in research methodology in the depth, or broaden technical and creative skills – these range Context and Methodology module, and the from classic techniques derived from areas Skills Portfolio module offers a toolkit of their experience in such as musique concrete and visual music optional skills-based projects designed to more contemporary practice, and include to allow students to improve on specific interdisciplinary and advanced skills such as software technical and creative skills as required. multimedia work. development using Max/ MSP/Jitter and The second trimester offers a choice; multimedia skills. The course will also where students can opt to explore sound It would also benefit those with a include a grounding in postgraduate-level within a multimedia context in the Visual general musical background who wish research methodology, and opportunities Music module, or to take the Electroacoustic to gain more experience working with to collaborate with other musicians, Composition Techniques module which technology, and those with experience in performers and media practitioners. focuses purely on audio work. All students media-based technologies who wish to The multimedia aspects of the course will take the Collaborative and focus on sound. are optional. Students can choose at what Interdisciplinary Practice module, which We take a creative and experimental depth to engage with this area, or indeed gives an opportunity to work with peers approach, whilst remaining non genre- to focus entirely on sound. In the first and across subject boundaries, with the specific. The course spans a wide variety trimester there is an opportunity to take possibility of working with other creative Bath Spa University School of Music and Performing Arts 50 / 51
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McKay, Nam June Paik etc.). It will also will use the skills acquired in their 07 cover contemporary artists such as undergraduate work and the first two Awards Key features Kurt Ralske, Jeremy Goldstein and Scott trimesters to produce a substantial portfolio Pagano, as well as more commercial of practical creative work. The exact nature - Master of Music - A creative course, practitioners such as Chris Cunningham, of this work is to be negotiated with the (MMus) Creative for musicians Alex Rutterford and the Pleix and Shynola module leader, but it must represent the Sound and Media rather than collectives, and new media creatives. This quantity of work required by a double Technology engineers seminar series will be informed by a range module. The practical portfolio will be - Postgraduate - Options to work in of high-level practical input in areas such supported by a dissertation of 5–8000 words. Diploma (PG Dip) visual media as well as video editing, animation, motion graphics It is envisaged that this dissertation will be Creative Sound and as pure audio and interactivity. Students will produce a used to contextualise the practical work in Media Technology - Opportunities to portfolio of creative and practical work terms of existing ‘repertoire’ and current - Postgraduate collaborate with a exploring the concepts and skills explored practice, and to discuss any issues raised potential and commitment, and their Student Profile Certificate (PG Cert) wide variety of other by the module, and a selective topic review through the creative process. The module ability to benefit from the course. Normally, Patrick Dunn, MMus Creative Creative Sound and musicians and further exploring some of the areas will be largely student-led, with most of but not invariably, a student will have a Sound and Media Technology Media Technology artists covered by the seminar series. the work centred around individual practice. first degree. Applications are invited from – - Professional-level Students will receive tutorial support at candidates with a range of academic “Before starting this course I was Course location resources, Collaborative and Interdisciplinary the beginning and end of the module. disciplines and from a variety of national working as a learning technology including our new Practice backgrounds. Applicants should submit a consultant and completing Newton Park campus MusicLab studios This module encourages students to Teaching methods and resources portfolio with their application, comprising independent e-learning. Bath Spa collaborate, with students on the Creative Modules are normally taught via lectures, no more than three pieces of representative is my local university and I chose Course length Applications Sound and Media Technology course, with seminars and practical workshops. The work. The form of this portfolio will depend to do this course as it has a very students taking our other MMus courses, Major Project is research-based and on the music you make: we are happy to good reputation and I was impressed - MMus full-time: Application forms or indeed with creative individuals outside student-led, with supporting tutorials. receive CDs, DVDs, scores, documentation by the Course Director. The course three trimesters are available on the of the course. It allows students who are Visiting speakers and other activities of performances or installations, or online has a slightly unusual profile with a (one calendar year) website and for any so inclined to look beyond their core are arranged as appropriate. You are material as appropriate. diverse and esoteric mix of subjects - MMus part-time: admissions enquires discipline and undertake interdisciplinary encouraged to make full use of library and areas, with an emphasis on creativity six trimesters (two please contact: projects, but can also provide an opportunity and IT resources within the University, Employability rather than engineering. I particularly calendar years) T: +44 (0)1225 875624 to work in new ways within their core and ample time will be scheduled in Potential career destinations include: liked the focus on independent study, - PG Dip full-time: E: admissions@ discipline through collaborative practice. studios and workstation labs for - Composition coupled with the enthusiasm and two trimesters (one bathspa.ac.uk Delivery will centre around small-group independent study. - Composition for media competence of the tutors. There is academic year) seminars (focused on particular interest - Other media work (web, games etc.) also a good mix of students, and as a - PG Dip part-time: Enquiries areas), and assessment will be based on Assessment methods - Studio engineering/production thoroughly mature student just being four trimesters a portfolio of creative work and a self- Assessment takes the form of individual - Programming with younger people who are learning - PG Cert full-time: Please contact evaluation/collaborative process document. assignments for each module. These things is incredibly exciting. I think in one trimester course director generally consist of a portfolio of practical general this course is as much about - PG Cert part-time: Dr Joseph Hyde: Trimester 3 work with supporting written documents. the increased sense of confidence and two trimesters T: +44(0)1225 875640 Major Project Context and Methodology and the Major competence as providing new skills. E: j.hyde@ This double module represents the Project involve small-scale dissertations. I would advise anyone considering Fees bathspa.ac.uk culmination of the MMus, and a chance this course to achieve a good level for students to work in a research-oriented Entry requirements 01–03 Music technology in action of technical competence in music Please see page 04 Former student Tom Harrison performing 12 for full details. environment dependent largely on personal We offer places on the basis of our at the Watershed Media Centre in Bristol technology skills and approach direction and working methods. Students assessment of the student’s quality, 05–07 Control Room 1 in our MusicLab studio complex it with a very open mind." Bath Spa University School of Music and Performing Arts www.bathspa.ac.uk Performance
and anticipate grouping teaching on a a substantial portfolio of practical creative Students may explore areas of their This course is aimed at performers with a single day each week to facilitate this. work. The exact nature of this work is to own interest, which may relate to staff strong interest in live or recorded performance be negotiated with the module leader, but specialisms such as contemporary Modules it must represent the quantity of work clarinet, early music and music of the in jazz or classical styles, wishing to develop required by a double module. The practical Georgian period and romantic and early Trimester 1 portfolio is supported by a dissertation of twentieth-century music. and extend their repertoire and experience. Performance 1 5–8000 words. This dissertation is used to Students will also benefit from This module gives you an opportunity contextualise the practical work in terms the involvement of the many vocal and There is an emphasis on developing Course structure and content to develop your performance skills and of existing ‘repertoire’ and current practice, instrumental teachers from the Music high-level solo performance skills In full-time mode, the course runs over technique, and to extend your repertoire. and to discuss any issues raised through Department as well as from a well- alongside ensemble and collaborative three trimesters, October to October. Your development is supported by regular the creative process. The module will established masterclass programme. activities. As with the other MMus pathways, The first trimester gives a thorough one-to-one lessons with a specialist teacher. be largely student-led, with most of the Recent visitors have included Dame there are modules which involve producing grounding in research methodology in The module is assessed through a recital work centred around individual practice. Emma Kirkby (voice), Isobel Buchanan a collaborative project, developing research the Context and Methodology module, on your instrument or voice and through Students receive tutorial support at the (voice), Stefano Parrino (flute), Badke skills and academic writing, and a final while Performance 1 is designed to a reflective commentary on your process. beginning and end of the module. Quartet (strings), Florian Uhlig (piano), project, which will normally culminate in develop your performance skills and Professor Colin Lawson (clarinet), Andy a public performance. technique, and to extend your repertoire. Context and Methodology Teaching methods and resources Sheppard (saxophone), Ensemble Bash Your development as a performer is This module is intended to fulfil the Modules are normally taught via (percussion) and Madeleine Mitchell (violin). 01 supported by regular one-to-one lessons requirements of a research methodology one-to-one lessons, seminars and practical This culture of high-level performance with a specialist teacher. module. However, since a large part of the workshops, supported by individual tutorials will be relevant and attractive to potential The second trimester further extends this programme is practice-based, and and online activity within the university’s MMus (Performance) students. your development as a performer. The the methodology for this aspect of students’ Virtual Learning Environment. The Major performance module develops skills and work is covered by other modules in the Project is research-based and student- Assessment methods repertoire whilst also furthering your programme, it is intended to combine led, with supporting tutorials. Visiting Assessment takes the form of individual understanding of performance history a study of research methodology with a speakers, masterclasses and other activities assignments for each module. These and practice. All students also take the study of context in terms of the student’s are arranged as appropriate. You are generally consist of a portfolio of practical Collaborative and Interdisciplinary own practice – specifically of a set of encouraged to make full use of library work with supporting written documents Practice module, which gives you an paradigms that characterise the field’s and IT resources in the University, and Context and Methodology and the Major opportunity to work with peers and across current, creative boundaries. The ample time will be scheduled in studios Project also involve small-scale dissertations. subject boundaries, as well as to take part primary teaching method for this module and workstation labs for independent in ensemble activities of different kinds. is a weekly lecture/seminar, with some study, as appropriate. In addition to the Entry requirements The third trimester is research-based, tutorial sessions that focus on pathway facilities available on the Newton Park We offer places on the basis of our with students undertaking an individual specialism. The assessment item will be campus, including the Michael Tippett assessment of the student’s quality, Major Project which allows them to explore a 5000-word topic review, demonstrating Centre, we have access to the University’s potential and commitment, and their a chosen area in depth. an understanding of the methodologies Corsham Court centre. ability to benefit from the course. Normally, The course may also be taken covered by the module and an awareness Performers are encouraged to but not invariably, a student will have a first part-time over two years. In this case, of the contextual siting of the student’s collaborate with each other and with degree. Applications are invited from the first year comprises Performance 1, own practice. other students from the School of Music candidates with a range of academic 01 Orchestral practice followed by Collaborative and and Performing Arts (whether in music disciplines and from a variety of national 02 On the way to rehearsal Interdisciplinary Practice. The second Trimester 2 or in other disciplines). Students are also backgrounds. Applicants should submit year comprises Context and Methodology Performance 2 required to participate in two ensembles a DVD recording with their application, and Performance 2, and concludes with This module is designed to extend your of their choice within the Department comprising two contrasting works. the Major Project over the summer. We performing skills and repertoire as well of Music. Applicants should also submit an example welcome applications for part-time study, as to explore performance practice and The Music Department currently of written work, particularly where this performance history. Through a weekly runs a wide range of ensemble activity, relates to their own practice, focusing 02 seminar, you are introduced to a wide all of which will be relevant to MMus on technical and/or aesthetic concerns. range of performance-related issues Performance students. Such ensembles and techniques, which will extend and include those in the western classical Awards Key features enhance your current practice. In the tradition (such as orchestra and Georgian seminars you analyse repertoire, recorded Band) and jazz (BB1 and BB2) as well - Master of Music - Instrumental/vocal and live performances, there is set reading as in other areas (such as Gamelan and (MMus) in tuition and listening, group discussion and experimental music). BSU Music Performance - Vibrant music presentation of research and performance. Department has developed close links - Postgraduate department with Students also explore strategies for with high-profile promoters of live music Diploma (PG Dip) a wide range of marketing themselves in this module. (including Bath International Music Festival, Performance ensemble activities The module is assessed through reflective Bath Philharmonia, Bath Mozart Fest, - Postgraduate - Staff who are highly writing and through a lecture recital. Pump Room Series, Iford Arts) and these links will enable some significant Certificate (PG Cert) regarded Collaborative and Interdisciplinary performance-related opportunities for Performance performers Practice MMus Performance students. Course location Applications This module encourages students to collaborate, with students on the Creative Staff and visiting lecturers Newton Park campus Application forms Sound and Media Technology course, with MMus Performance is led by Dr Charles are available on the students taking our other MMus courses, Wiffen and Professor Roger Heaton. Roger Fees website and for any or indeed with creative individuals outside is a renowned clarinettist and conductor admissions enquiries of the course. It allows students who and performs throughout Europe as Please see page please contact: are so inclined to look beyond their core a soloist. He has played with the Arditti, 12 for full details. T: +44 (0)1225 875624 discipline and undertake interdisciplinary Kreutzer and Smith String Quartets, and E: admissions@ projects, but can also provide an opportunity was a member of the London Sinfonietta Course length bathspa.ac.uk to work in new ways within their core and Ensemble Modern. He plays with the discipline through collaborative practice. Gavin Bryars Ensemble, with whom he - MMus full-time: Enquiries Delivery centres around small-group records regularly for CD and radio. He was three trimesters seminars (focused on particular interest Music Director and conductor of Rambert (one calendar year) Please contact areas), and assessment is based on Dance Company, 1988–93, and Clarinet - MMus part-time: course director a portfolio of creative work and a self- Professor at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse six trimesters (two Professor Roger evaluation/collaborative process document. für Neue Musik, 1982–94. Charles Wiffen has performed calendar years) Heaton: Trimester 3 extensively in Great Britain, Europe, - PG Dip full-time: T: +44(0)1225 875628 Major Project North America, Israel, China, Japan two trimesters (one E: r.heaton@ academic year) bathspa.ac.uk This double module represents the and Southern Africa. Recent festival - PG Dip part-time: culmination of the MMus, and a chance appearances have included the BBC four trimesters for students to work in a research-oriented Proms as well as numerous other - PG Cert full-time: environment dependent largely on personal festivals. He is a member of the London one trimester direction and working methods. Students Archduke Trio and Contemporary Consort. - PG Cert part-time: use the skills acquired in their undergraduate Charles has taught at the Royal College two trimesters work and the first two trimesters to produce of Music and at Trinity College of Music. Bath Spa University School of Music and Performing Arts 52 / 53 Songwriting This is the world’s first and only Master’s Degree in Songwriting.
01 of your own work songwriting combines analysis of existing may choose to work as a songwriter or - To provide opportunities for you to repertoire with a focus on song crafting in a related field such as music publishing. discuss current developments in technique and students are encouraged to Others may use the critical skills they have songwriting with songwriters, producers develop by writing new songs throughout acquired to work elsewhere in the music and publishers the course. Lectures, seminars and tutorials industry, perhaps for a record label or as - To encourage you to develop re-writing combine to offer a range of expert and peer a music journalist. and collaborative songwriting skills critique that seeks to enable the student Upon graduation from the programme, - To help you to develop technical skills to examine original and known works in it is the aim of course tutors that students relevant to songwriting practice a range of critical and technical contexts. will have acquired the core problem-solving, - To develop your academic writing skills The curriculum is supported by a Virtual analytical and critical skills needed to adapt at ‘M’ level Learning Environment, so course materials to the changeable and unpredictable work - To guide you in planning and recording can be accessed from any web link. environment of the twenty-first century. a portfolio of high-quality songs Faculty and Campus 03 Modules The University’s Corsham Court Centre Solo Songwriting has been established with an emphasis This module aims to enable students on postgraduate study, offering the space to develop critical thinking skills in and incentive to write within a community relation to songwriting and to use of inspirational and imaginative artists. practical songwriting and reflective All instructors at Bath Spa University writing skills to interpret, assimilate and are practising professionals and have evaluate the critique of others. multi-platinum selling status, representing almost every genre of popular music. History of Song Student Profile This module aims to enable students Recording facilities Chris Turpin, MMus Songwriting 2010–12 02 to gain knowledge and understanding While our studio facilities are designed – of strategies used in popular songwriting to enable the capture of high quality Current MMus Songwriting student, and to develop the ability to place original recordings, in keeping with contemporary Chris Turpin, is a songwriter and musician songs within the context of that knowledge songwriting industry practice it is anticipated published by Kassner Music Publishing, and understanding. that learners will become self-sufficient home to Ray Davies amongst others. Chris’ in the sense that, following completion of band, Kill It Kid, are signed to One Little Collaborative and Interdisciplinary the course, they will be able to repeat the Indian Records and their eponymous debut Practice core processes of writing, planning and album has been released to universal critical This module encourages students recording without incurring recording studio acclaim in the music press. Labelled to collaborate with each other on the expenses. To enable mastery of the home ‘an outstanding British record’ by Clash Songwriting pathway, with students on recording process, students have access, magazine and ‘Impressive stuff’ by the Creative Sound and Media Technology on a first come first served basis, to laptop the NME who awarded it 9/10 and 8/10 pathway, with students taking our other based ‘notepad’ setups and industry- respectively, Chris’ songs blend delta blues MMus pathways, or indeed with creative standard plug-ins (Stylus, MachFive, and roots to striking effect, producing individuals outside of the course. It allows BFD, Trilogy, Waves etc) throughout blistering, unapologetic rock ‘n’ roll one students who are so inclined to look beyond their studies. Our facilities include: moment and a smoky film-noir ambience their core discipline and undertake the next. interdisciplinary projects, but can also - Four dedicated songwriting rooms, provide an opportunity to work in new each including Apple Macs running Award of its type in the ways within their core discipline through Pro Tools, Garageband and Logic Studio. world, the MMus collaborative practice. Delivery centres - Dedicated performance venue, plus Master of Music Songwriting offers upon small-group seminars (focused on lighting and PA system. (MMus) Songwriting a unique programme particular interest areas), and assessment - Lecture facilities. of study. is based on a portfolio of creative work - Selection of instruments and microphones. Course location - Strong links with and a self-evaluation/collaborative - Acoustic piano and electronic keyboards. music industry Why choose this course? involved in the songwriting industry visit process document. Corsham bodies and Offered in both attendance-based and regularly to teach, host Q and A sessions Assessment methods Court campus publishers. distance learning formats, it is aimed and give masterclasses. Context and Methodology Assessment takes the form of individual at unpublished songwriters wishing to This module is intended to fulfil the assignments for each module. Typical Course length Applications develop their craft to a professional Distance learning requirements of a research methodology assessments include audio CD, level, or published songwriters wishing We offer a low-residency ‘distance learning’ module. However, since a large part of presentation, essay, and evaluative - MMus full-time: Application forms to achieve academic accreditation and version of MMus Songwriting that will be the programme is practice-based, and the account. Assessment is continuous three trimesters are available on the continue to improve creatively. open to both UK and overseas applicants. methodology for this aspect of students’ and there are no written exams. (one calendar year) website and for any The course, which is based at Corsham Initially, students spend an induction week work is covered by other modules in the - MMus part-time: admissions enquiries Court will help you to develop a range of at our Corsham Court Campus (in mid- programme, it is intended to combine a Entry requirements six trimesters (two please contact: critical, practical, communicative, industrial September) performing and writing songs, study of research methodology with a We offer places on the basis of the student’s calendar years) T: +44 (0)1225 875624 and research-based skills. During the getting to know tutors, and working with study of context in terms of the student’s experience, potential and commitment as - Also available E: admissions@ programme you will learn to: other students. own practice – specifically of a set of a songwriter. Normally, but not invariably, as a distance bathspa.ac.uk During the induction week tutors paradigms that characterise the field’s applicants will have a first degree (or learning route - Comment critically upon your own and host a series of lectures and seminars current, creative and industrial boundaries. equivalent music industry experience) plus Enquiries others’ material that serve to introduce you to the themes a substantial body of recorded work, equal Fees - Examine the musicological roots of of the programme. From then onwards the Major Project to that which would be obtained as part of For further your craft course is delivered using a range of tutor This double module represents the a related undergraduate course. Applicants Please see page information - Consider the commercial value of your and student-led e-learning methods. culmination of the MMus, and a chance should submit a portfolio of work with their 12 for full details. please contact: songs in the marketplace Like the on-site version, the ‘distance for students to work in a research- application comprising a four-track CD Richard J. Parfitt - Rewrite and collaborate learning’ option will be available on either oriented environment dependent largely of original songs with lyrics in the English Funding T: +44 (0)1225 876521 - Conduct academic research a full-time study (one year) or part-time on personal direction and working methods. language accompanied by printed A4 lyric E: r.parfitt@ - Develop technical skills study (two year) basis and course fees are Students use the skills acquired in their sheets. Applications are invited from AHRC Studentships bathspa.ac.uk - Create a professional-standard portfolio identical. Similarly, the course aims: undergraduate work and the first two candidates with a range of academic available – see page Distance Learning: of your work trimesters to produce a substantial portfolio disciplines and from a variety of national 12 for full details T: +44 (0)1225 876199 - To enable you to write and record songs of practical creative work. The exact nature backgrounds. Where an applicant does E: d.moore@ Course structure and content to a professional level of this work is to be negotiated with the not have a degree, he or she is required to Key features bathspa.ac.uk The course is available on either a full- - To develop critical awareness relating module leader, but it must represent the complete an APEL (Accreditation of Prior time (typically one year); part-time to your own songs and others’ quantity of work required by a double module. Learning Experience) form. - Taught by published (typically two year); or distance learning - To develop your ability to perform/ Seeking to establish interdependence of songwriters. basis. The academic year is 12 months present your songs enquiry, the module will be largely student- Employability - Bath Spa has long and comprises three semesters: - To inform you of historical and led, with most of the work centred upon MMus Songwriting is designed to enable pioneered the October–January; February–June; and musicological developments in individual practice. students to develop a broad range of teaching of June–October. Taught sessions are songwriting intellectual, practical and transferable songwriting. 01 Rehersal 02 Songwriting in action held during the daytime. Professional - To enhance your understanding of Teaching methods and resources skills. Given the practical nature of the - As the only course 03 Chris Turpin, MMus songwriters, music publishers and others the market value (and artistic value) Bath Spa’s approach to the teaching of course, it is envisaged that graduates Songwriting 2010–12 Bath Spa University School of Music and Performing Arts www.bathspa.ac.uk Performing Shakespeare
01 by completing a dissertation or developing through the Virtual Learning Environment demonstrate your foundational skills and a Shakespeare project from start to finish. (VLE) and assessments may include knowledge through an audition, interview This course is valuable for actors, directors, performance projects, research or both. Overseas students may be asked teachers, scholars or other future assignments, literature reviews, to send a recorded audition and the Shakespeare enthusiasts and equips you performance reviews, and assignments interview may be conducted over the with the knowledge, skills and experience tied to your learning experience. telephone or via Skype. to pursue a professional career in the study Students accepted onto the and/or practice of performing Shakespeare. Performing Shakespeare Thesis programme are expected to work Most of the contact hours and In this module you choose one of two often in teams and in collaboration with foundational skills classes, workshops, degree pathways leading to either an students, staff, researchers, and industry seminars, directed productions/ MA or MFA degree. Students taking the professionals and therefore personal performances and lectures take place MA pathway identify and undertake a profiles and recommendations will be in the first trimester (usually October – research thesis topic that culminates strongly considered. February) and these classes are likely to in a 12,000 word dissertation. Students be scheduled in afternoon-late evening taking the MFA pathway undertake a Please note: hour slots (depending on each specialist’s major professional quality performance This course is subject to final availability). The second trimester project and submit a practical portfolio. approval (at the time of printing) (beginning about mid February) usually Tutorials to prepare for this thesis module Visit www.bathspa.ac.uk/pgrad begins with a visit to Shakespeare’s Globe are conducted in the second trimester. In for the latest information Theatre (which could be for up to a week this module you engage in independent The MA/MFA in Performing Shakespeare is away in London) and/or the RSC and study/practice in order to develop your Stratford Upon Avon (possibly several days). autonomous research and/or professional designed to appeal to students interested in You will find after these off-site visits (at practice. You are further supported through 07 about March) that most of your work will tutorials, meetings and the VLE. the performance of Shakespeare and studying be independent and via the VLE (Virtual the original and contemporary practices of Learning Environment), leading into your Teaching methods and resources final dissertation work; which can be The degree is delivered through a variety Shakespeare’s theatre. The course is unique produced independently and remotely of workshops, lectures, seminars, master should you wish. It is suggested that you classes, off-site visits, performance and in that it is delivered with a practice-based prepare to be resident in Bath from production work, and through the VLE. October until March (depending on course You will benefit from working and learning research model in mind. You learn by ‘doing’ scheduling) but that there will be more with an ever-expanding list of lecturers, and reflect on your developing practice. You flexibility in your schedules as the course specialists, artists and guest scholars. moves through each trimester leading to You also have access to a variety of can also tailor your experience to your own your dissertation. resources including performance studios and spaces such as the University Theatre, interests and needs. Modules Burdall’s Yard and Corsham Court. Further Shakespeare in Play and Practice departmental links with the Theatre Royal Why choose this course? Course structure and content This module is a highly practical module Bath, the Rondo Theatre, the egg, The You choose either an MA or MFA degree The MA/MFA in Performing Shakespeare in which you will learn a wide range of Ustinov, the Tobacco Factory, Circomedia, pathway. The MA pathway is designed introduces you to the historic and performance skills taught by Bath Spa The Scoop @More London, and the Salisbury for students interested in submitting contemporary practices of performing and external specialists in the industry. Playhouse may also prove fruitful for a traditional research-led dissertation, Shakespeare. Students of both pathways Foundational performance skills will be students on this course. whereas the MFA pathway is designed share most of the modules, skills classes, taught such as acting, directing, staging for students seeking a practice-based performance and production work, and voice. In addition, other technical Tutors dissertation project. Regardless of workshops and off-site experiences; skills may be taught including Clowning - Dr Terri Power (Course Director) which pathway you choose, you will the distinction between the two degrees is and Fooling, Stage Combat, Movement – Performing and Staging Shakespeare benefit from a wide range of opportunities made through your choice of dissertation and Music. The module is taught through - Dr. Matthew Spring, Elizabethan Music Awards Applications to work with industry specialists, resident outcome. MA students are required to mostly workshops and seminars, and - Mark Langley, Voice Specialist scholars, and educational opportunities submit a written dissertation and MFA assessments may include presentations, - Gordon Kemp, Stage Combat MA in Performing Application forms with professional companies such as students to submit a performance performances and productions (directed - Pat Welsh, Comedy Specialist Shakespeare are available on the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and the project and supporting portfolio. and self-directed). - Dr Laura Purcell Gates, MFA in Performing website and for any Royal Shakespeare Company. This course gives you the opportunity Movement Specialist Shakespeare admissions enquiries The course allows more flexibility to creatively apply Shakespeare Shakespeare and the Globe - And guest lecturers and artists please contact: for international and mature students performance practices to your own work This module covers the theoretical, Course location T: +44 (0)1225 875624 than other courses in the sector. It also and ideas, and will aid in developing your historical and practical research of Employability E: admissions@ benefits from Bath Spa University’s unique autonomous and collaborative learning Shakespeare’s Theatre in classic and Students completing the degree will be Newton Park bathspa.ac.uk location – a beautiful rural setting that and performance skills. You are also able contemporary contexts. The module qualified to enter the industry in a wide campus is historically significant (only minutes to explore Shakespeare in depth through includes specialist lectures and off- range of jobs. MA graduates, for example, Enquiries away from the ancient city of Bath) and a variety of research methods and are site visits with Shakespeare’s Globe may elect to continue their academic Course length its proximity to London, Bristol and given the support and freedom to build Theatre and the RSC. You will engage scholarship and enrol in Doctoral or Please contact Stratford Upon Avon. upon your practice and research profile in independent study on topics introduced MPhil programmes at Bath Spa or Full-time (one year) course director elsewhere. MFA graduates may find Part-time (two years) Dr Terri Power employment opportunities as actors, T: +44 (0)1225 875711 02 03 06 directors, designers, producers, teachers, Fees E: t.power@ arts managers, company directors, etc. bathspa.ac.uk Employment opportunities will be as Please see page varied as the students and their interests. 12 for full details.
Assessment methods Key features Assessments is varied and include essays, literature reviews, written documentation - Practice-based of work, presentations, portfolios, leading learning workshops, performances, written - Staff who are evaluations, reviews, rehearsal and highly regarded specialists 04 05 practice blogs, written dissertations, practical dissertation projects, critical - Unique flexible play reviews, and similar models delivery model of assessing skills and learning. - Excellent links with industry Entry requirements 01 Taming of the Shrew at the Scoop at More London You will have a proven academic and 02 Students Sword-fighting professional profile. You should have 03 Shrew at the Bath Comedy Festival a good first degree and some knowledge 04 A Speech Workshop 05 On tour in Devon and experience of theatre, acting and 06 Inside Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Shakespeare. You will be asked to 06 Stage practice at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Bath Spa University School of Music and Performing Arts 54 / 55 Theatre for Young Audiences
01 Award
MA Theatre for Young Audiences
Course location
Various Bath Spa locations
Course length
Full-time (one year) Part-time (two years)
Fees
Please see page 12 for full details.
Key Features
- Collaboration with the egg, one of the country’s leading providers of theatre for young audiences - Practical alongside contextual study, with culmination in showcase in conjunction with the egg
Applications
Application forms are available on the website and for any admissions enquiries please contact: T: +44 (0)1225 875624 E: admissions@ bathspa.ac.uk
Enquiries
Please contact course leader Dr Laura Purcell Gates: T: +44 (0)1225 876246 E: l.purcellgates@ bathspa.ac.uk arts for young people, including a combination of methods including 01 A child at the theatre The MA in Theatre for Young Audiences workshop facilitation and experiential residencies, master classes, workshops, (TYA) is a multi-disciplinary programme learning paradigms seminars and online resources. As the appropriate, the interview and/or application - The performance field through course uses the egg as its centre of form and the portfolio of work presented. designed for entrepreneurial theatre makers examination of the work of key operations, the delivery pattern will companies and playwrights also incorporate and use the ongoing Employability and practitioners including actors, directors, - The role of digital technologies and programme of activity at the egg. At the As this course is based in partnership with traditional scenography in the creative close of the academic year the course the egg, a venue specialising in theatre for scriptwriters, producers, scenographers and process and product aims to present a showcase of work in young audiences, the programme creates others with a relevant background in theatre - The arts business, associated funding conjunction with the egg, to include opportunity for sustainable career models and market infrastructure in touring performance, new writing and development to occur in three main areas: and performance. which the work is situated. other work. - By designing the learning environment Why choose this course? of one of the most innovative venues for Modules Assessment methods as entrepreneurial, work-based and Storytelling, new writing and visual theatre, TYA in the country: the egg “is a fantastic Modules will include: Assessment methods will include both collaborative, you will establish including puppetry, are a particular focus theatre that offers some of the best written and practical work, including a connections with wide industry of the course. Applicants will also have a work for children and family audiences” - Theatre for Young Audiences: final showcase presentation in and field-specific networks. desire to learn more about the structures (Lyn Gardener – The Guardian). Content and Context conjunction with the egg. - By branding final products as being of creative enterprise and business Coupled with the considerable - Methodologies and Processes developed in partnership with the egg, that surround this burgeoning field of resources of the Department of Performing - Design and Aesthetics Entry requirements you will have a product and/or portfolio performance making. Arts, this unique environment will give you - Creating and Communicating Normally, but not exclusively, an applicant with market value and longevity. The course intends to foster an the opportunity to work with others within Stories for Young People will have a good first degree (2:1 or above). - The final showcase of work is used as a intensively collaborative experience situated your chosen specialism to create a new - Professional Product and Portfolio This may be in an area related to the creative launch platform to attract commission at Theatre Royal Bath’s the egg, one of the piece of theatre for young audiences. industries. However, it is acknowledged and further contacts. country’s leading providers of theatre and This creative journey will be informed Teaching methods and resources that background career paths of applicants related practice in the field of Theatre for and underpinned by you gaining a The MA Theatre for Young Audiences may be diverse. In fostering an ethos of Please note: Young Audiences. practical, critical and analytical will consist of four 30-credit modules interdisciplinary creativity and collaboration This course is subject to final understanding of: and one 60-credit module (180 credits) on the programme, we would welcome approval (at the time of printing) Course structure and content delivered over three trimesters. This candidates who have arrived at this career Visit www.bathspa.ac.uk/pgrad Crucial to your experience of this new - Practical methodologies and processes totals a 12-month period of study for choice through alternate pathways. In all for the latest information course is the use of the egg as the base for creating theatre and storytelling for full-time students and a 24-month applications, we will assess the application of practice. You will be given the opportunity young audiences period of study for part-time students. on the basis of Accreditation of Prior to immerse yourself in the operational life - Educational pedagogy in the creative This MA will be delivered through Experiential Learning (APEL) where Bath Spa University School of Science, Society and Management www.bathspa.ac.uk School of Science, Society and Management
Professor Rob Mears, Head of School “ Our central aim is to provide high quality academic and vocationally oriented programmes that will challenge and inspire you, and will prepare you for your future career. All our subjects have been reviewed favourably by external quality agencies, and we have extensive contacts with national subject centres dedicated to developing excellence in teaching and research, so you can be assured of the highest standards of teaching. You will be taught by experts in their disciplines who aim to ensure that your time here is both productive and enjoyable.” Taught postgraduate awards Business and Management Biology: Graduate Certificate and Diploma Geography: Graduate Certificate and Diploma Principles of Applied Neuropsychology
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Welcome to the MA in Business and through them in a positive and 02 effective manner. Management with specialist pathways in If you are preparing yourself for the skills and understanding that you will need Marketing and Creating and Developing Your to enter self-employment or to create and develop your own business idea the specialist Business. This exciting new programme is pathway (Creating and Developing your specifically designed to help you to develop Business) will provide a framework around which you can make this a practical reality. your knowledge and understanding of business Alternatively, you might be seeking to deepen current knowledge and management and be able to implement and understanding of business and management from the marketing this effectively across a wide range of complex perspective. The specialist pathway in business-based scenarios. Marketing will enable you to achieve this. Modules Why choose this course? Participants take a mix of taught Trimester 1 You will engage in the advanced modules in the first two trimesters (120 By the end of the first trimester you will study of a diverse range of organisations credits) and complete a dissertation/ have developed a core of knowledge about and the rapidly changing environments research project (15,000–20,000 words) the contemporary business environment in which they operate both nationally and in the third trimester (60 credits). To achieve and managing in the 21st century. In addition 03 04 internationally. You will enhance both your the MA you will need to complete 180 you will have begun to gain insight into the academic research skills and the practical credits in total. key themes that will comprise your final management skills that you will need For those whose previous degree, taking one further compulsory in order to manage human resources, undergraduate study has been in an half-module dependent upon your degree complex organisational systems and the unrelated discipline, the programme pathway choice, together with one challenging issues affecting business in a will provide you with the skills and additional optional half-module. rigorous, pragmatic and effective manner. knowledge that you will need to gain a broad understanding of the complexities Managing in the New Millennium Course structure and content associated within modern day organisations This module introduces all Business The Master’s degree is offered in a modular and their effective management. It will and Management Master’s students format offering participants the greatest prepare you to feel confident and assured to the holistic and complex nature of choice in tailoring their final degree content in your own capacity to analyse complex organisations today and will provide a to match their academic interest and issues and situations and to be able to springboard to subjects that are then studied future career development. manage yourself and the organisation in depth throughout the programme.
01 Managing Marketing comprehensive business plan. Content The purpose of this module is to provide will include: entrepreneurship and an understanding of the importance of the the planning process, stakeholder marketing concept within any organisation. analysis, environmental analysis and The module outlines both the philosophical audit, assessing organisational readiness, underpinning supporting contemporary strategic objectives and direction, marketing theory and its application in product/service development, different organisational contexts. delivery method, implementation plan, self-development plan and Business Economics personal reflection. This module is designed to fulfil your need and interest with an in-depth background Services and Relationship Marketing analysis to both microeconomics and This module is designed to explore the macroeconomics with an emphasis various facets of managing in the service on their applicability to the analysis of industry. The emphasis of this module is contemporary business problems. It on the consistency in service delivery to introduces you to the key principles of benefit the range of stakeholder groups. economics that are relevant to a modern In addition to explore how businesses can day business, and how economists build achieve a competitive edge through better and use models to help make sense of understanding of the intangible as well as the sometimes messy and confusing the tangible part of their engagement with world around us. their customers
Financial Management Managing Innovation, Creativity This module enables you to understand and Change how and why organisations report on This module enables you to develop your their financial performance and position capacity in creativity and innovation, and in the way they do. You also develop an in the manner that you communicate understanding of how financial information and negotiate with colleagues and key is used for decision making purposes and stakeholders. It helps you to become how relevant financial information is more self-aware, both as a learner and effectively evaluated and communicated as a manager, in the way you apply across the organisation. these skills to the organisation.
Trimester 2 Marketing Communications All students take four half-modules. This module explores the key issues and Students within the specialist pathway challenges in contemporary marketing degrees take two compulsory half-modules communications. It covers strategic in Trimester 2 – each half-module forming issues of brand strategy, planning, and a key component of their discipline of choice. channel integration as well as the tactical Students can then choose two further considerations needed to execute relevant optional half-modules, designed to enable and appropriate marketing communications them to tailor their degree whilst campaigns that meet the needs of key demonstrating the broadening of their identified audiences. knowledge and understanding from an interdisciplinary perspective. Managing Information The purpose of this module is to Launching New Ventures provide an understanding of the key This module helps you to develop a approaches for managing information Bath Spa University School of Science, Society and Management 58 / 59
within organisations. Within this context, - Understand the major business them maintain deep practical experience - Individual presentation Awards Course location the module aims to provide students with functions – understanding markets, gained in business and management - Group project work the tools and capabilities to assess and developing plans, understanding engagement across the commercial, - Group presentation - MA Business and - Newton Park manage information together with the and improving delivery, managing public and the non-profit sectors. Our - Examination Management campus analysis and evaluation of the different relationships with people, managing tutors are committed to delivering the - MA Business and theoretical perspectives in developing finance, technology and other resources; highest quality teaching and learning Assignments are designed to integrate Management Course length and managing information and - Develop skills and techniques – in and the application of that learning to theoretical concepts with practical application. (Marketing) technology assets gathering, analysing and evaluating deliver effective practice in the workplace. - MA Business and - MA full-time three information, planning, applying concepts Entry requirements Management trimesters (one Entrepreneurship and models to the solution of problems, Employability Applications from a variety of backgrounds (Creating and calendar year) This module explores the contribution evaluating risk, making decisions, This programme is designed to prepare are welcomed. Normally a good honours Developing Your - MA part-time of entrepreneurship and of individual communicating, working in teams, participants for a wide range of careers in degree in any academic discipline or Business) 32 months entrepreneurs to future organisational thinking effectively and in flexibly general management across all industry a relevant professional qualification. - PGDip Business - PGDip full-time growth and sustainability. It defines the managing your own work and that sectors. It will prepare you for entry level Applicants who do not meet the academic and Management two trimesters different role of the entrepreneur in of others; into management and position you for entry standard, but who have relevant - PGDip Business - PGDip part-time different organisational contexts – small, - Evaluate and challenge both the progression to middle management work experience, will be considered and Management four trimesters medium and international, and identifies positive and negative effects of a range positions. The advanced learning that it on their individual merits by the Course (Marketing) the necessary requirements associated of business and management practices provides delivers practical management Director. Previous experience and learning - PGDip Business Fees with the creation and management of and be able to make judgements about based skills that are directly applicable can be taken into consideration. and Management an entrepreneurial culture. their value and implications; to a range of occupations. (Creating and Please see page - Apply your learning in a variety of Study within the specialist pathways Please note: Developing Your 12 for full details. Managing People business contexts ranging from the allows for further concentration of There are plans to introduce a new Business). Whatever your specialism, managers experience of large multinational skills and techniques in marketing specialist pathway within this programme: Key Features increasingly need to be managers of organisations to sole party ownership; and in business start-up and small and MA Business and Mangement (Health people, lead teams and undertake many through different industry and sector medium size business management. The Services Management). This will be 01 Entrepreneur - Flexible modular aspects of human resource management. specific experience; and through content of the programme is also directly of interest to professionals working 02 Launching a structure provides new venture It is also increasingly being recognised analysis of enterprise at different stages applicable those participants who wish or considering working as managers 03 Using business maximum choice that organisational performance can be of development – self-employment, to work in a self-employed capacity in in health, health and social care and models and tailoring of the enhanced and competitive advantage gained start-up and small business. the creative and performing arts sectors. allied fields. It will also be suitable 04 Setting up a degree to support new business through the strategic management and for new graduates who wish to pursue 05 Business acumen your career development of people. Tutors Assessment methods a professional career in this field. progression Your tutors offer you access to a wide A variety of assessment methods are For up-to-date information on this - Provides thorough Managing the Organisation range of academic and practical expertise utilised, including: please visit our website: grounding in the The purpose of this module is to provide in business and management. Many of - Individual report www.bathspa.ac.uk/pgrad principles and an understanding of effective operations practice of business and process management to meet 05 and management identified organisational goals. The - Strong focus on importance of quality management marketing, processes and procedures and their enterprise and management application across the developing a organisation are analysed and evaluated business as is the manner in which the quality - Directly relevant of operations impacts on stakeholder for those whose behaviour (staff, customers etc.) previous undergraduate Strategy and Governance study has been in This module focuses on strategy and its an unrelated importance to any organisation if it is to discipline, for be able to grow and sustain itself within continuing learners the contemporary global competitive with practical environment. The module identifies the experience and for key concept of organisational purpose those preparing for linked to both normative and technique self-employment based strategic tools and applies these or employment in in a variety of different organisational the creative and contexts. performing arts.
Non-Profit Management Applications This module explores the distinctive challenges associated with the Application forms management of non-profit organisations are available on the from a marketing perspective. Ownership website and for any and strategic imperatives are identified admissions enquiries alongside the contrasting demands please contact: of resource attraction, administration T: +44 (0)1225 875624 and application. E: admissions@ bathspa.ac.uk Trimester 3 Project/Dissertation Enquiries Between June and September Master’s students work (supported by a nominated Please contact supervisor) on their dissertation or course director detailed research project (15,000–20,000 Professor words). The module commences with Stephen Lee. a series of taught interventions designed T: +44 (0)1225 876209 to promote scholarly endeavour in the E: s.lee2@ research context – resulting in the bathspa.ac.uk formulation of clearly articulated research proposal outlining your research questions and the framing of the detailed work to be undertaken.
Teaching methods and resources By the time you complete the programme, you will be able to: Bath Spa University School of Science, Society and Management www.bathspa.ac.uk Biology: Graduate Certificate and Diploma
Graduate Certificates and Diplomas 03 Awards provide recognised awards for graduates Graduate Certificate: - Animal Behaviour and professionals who wish to update and - Ecological Impact Assessment extend their subject knowledge. They may - Waste and Environmental be undertaken as part of a programme of Management continual professional development or as - Biology Graduate Diploma: stand-alone qualifications. - Biology - Conservation 01 Biology
Course length
Modules run through the academic year from September. You can study at your own pace, but would normally be expected to complete a Certificate or Diploma in two years.
Course location
Newton Park campus
Fees
Fees for 2012–13 will be £1500 per 20 credit module
Applications Why choose this course? 02 You may find these awards of relevance if you are a teacher of biology or Application forms environmental science, an employee are available on the of a conservation NGO or Government website and for any body, or an environmental consultant. admissions enquiries You may even be a relatively recent please contact: graduate, with a desire to broaden T: +44 (0)1225 875624 experience at Honours level. E: admissions@ bathspa.ac.uk Course structure and content These awards are designed to provide you Enquiries with specialised knowledge, understanding and practical skills in certain aspects of one module (Marine Biology) has Please contact Biology at Honours level (Level 6). As part a residential field trip in March. course director of this, it is also intended that you gain some The Newton Park campus is an Dr David Watson: personal experience of the approach, practice excellent location for the study of Biology. T: +44 (0)1225 875755 and evaluation of scientific research. Module The campus provides a rich variety of E: d.watson@ content is underpinned by staff consultancy woodland, grassland and freshwater bathspa.ac.uk and research activity and so is up-to-date habitats, which are used extensively Biology Graduate Certificates: Graduate Diplomas: and highly relevant in terms of subject in practical and project research work. Module knowledge and professional practice. Our laboratories, glasshouses and Options You must complete two modules experimental areas provide specialist for a Graduate Certificate and four for a facilities for a wide range of practical Animal Ecological Waste and Biology: Biology: Conservation Graduate Diploma. See table for work including marine, ecological, Behaviour: Impact Environmental Biology: module options. anatomical and soil analysis. Assessment: Management:
Teaching methods and resources Entry requirements Animal C O O C Modules are delivered through a You should normally have either: Behaviour combination of lectures, practicals, field work and projects, and on-line - An Honours Degree allied to subjects Biodiversity C O O C materials. The balance of activities will within the Department of Biology, Assessment vary according to your choice of modules. such as Biological or Life Sciences, 01–03 Fieldwork However there is a strong emphasis on Environmental Science, Psychology, opportunities gaining experience of practical work, or Geography; or Environmental C C O O O fieldwork and research. Assessment is - An Honours Degree in any field with Consultancy strongly weighted towards coursework a postgraduate qualification allied and timed exercises rather than formal to Biology; or Marine Biology O O O examinations. Modules run in different - An Honours Degree in any field with formats, such as a one two-hour block appropriate professional experience Plants and O O of contact each week or as a three or in an area allied to Biology; or, People four hour block every other week. Please - Equivalent experience. contact us for further information. The Project Module C C C C exception is the Project Module (research), Neither Bath Spa nor external graduates which is scheduled in agreement with your can normally claim APL for previous C = Compulsory O = Optional. supervisor. In addition to weekly sessions, studies towards these qualifications. Bath Spa University School of Science, Society and Management 60 / 61 Geography: Graduate Certificate and Diploma
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Physical: Human Geospatial Geography Physical Human Geospatial Graduate Certificate: Fees for 2012–13 - Geospatial will be £1500 per Climatology Techniques 20 credit module
Quaternary C - Human Geography Environments - Physical Geography Applications Graduate Diploma: - Geography Application forms Coast C C - Geospatial are available on the and River Techniques website and for any Management - Human Geography admissions enquiries Why choose this course? combination of lectures, practicals, Tourism: C - Physical Geography please contact: Our tutors are professional geographers field trips, projects, and on-line Contemporary Issues T: +44 (0)1225 875624 who undertake research and scholarship materials, depending on your choice Course length E: admissions@ at the cutting edge of the discipline, of modules. Classes occur on a Historical C C Geographies bathspa.ac.uk publishing research papers in international fortnightly basis in alternation. Each Each module runs journals, textbooks, and speaking at has three or four hours of contact per The C Geomatics for one academic Enquiries international conferences, as well as fortnight. Assessment varies between Industry year, beginning making media appearances. All research modules, including laboratory exercises, Survey C C in September and Please contact within the department is of direct benefit field work, reflective diaries, projects, Practice ending in June. subject leader to students, much of it directly concerning posters, seminar presentations, C = Compulsory. Others are optional. To be eligible for the Graduate Diploma in Geography you must take a You can study at Dr Rebecca Schaaf improvements to student learning. essays, and exams. minimum of one Human Option and one Physical Option. your own pace, T: +44 (0)1225 876336 Modules may contain a field work but would normally E: r.schaaf@ Course structure and content element, one or two days away at a local be expected to bathspa.ac.uk - Graduate Certificates in Human destination with tutor and sometimes complete a Geography, Physical Geography or external guidance. Destinations include such as Physical Geography, Human Please note: Certificate or Diploma Geospatial Techniques – two modules Avebury, Oxford, the Gordano Valley and Geography, Environmental or Earth Neither Bath Spa nor external in two years. - Graduate Diploma in Geography – one the River Exe catchment. Field work Science, Remote Sensing, graduates can normally claim APL compulsory module and three optional allows you to view subject material from Geographical Information Systems, for previous studies towards these Course location 01 Total station Brittany modules (at least one human geography a different perspective and offers the Planning or Social Science. qualifications. 02 In the lab and one physical geography module) opportunity for training in the application - An honours degree in any field with Please contact the Course Leader 03 AGS survey students Newton Park 04 Stone talk – Avebury - Graduate Diploma in Human Geography, of specialised equipment and techniques. a postgraduate qualification allied for queries on entry requirements. campus 05–06 Monolith tin Physical Geography or Geospatial to Geography; – Portishead Techniques – four compulsory modules Entry requirements: - An honours degree in any field with To undertake any of these awards, appropriate professional experience Teaching methods and resources you should normally have either: in an area allied to Geography; Modules are delivered through a - An honours degree allied to Geography, - Equivalent experience. Bath Spa University School of Science, Society and Management www.bathspa.ac.uk Principles of Applied Neuropsychology
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In fact, we will encourage the submission of a research paper as the culmination of the Master’s experience. We also offer assessments in less formal writing for magazines or newspapers. We aim to consolidate your literature searching skills, something that is crucial to get right for a PhD thesis and for writing grant proposals.
Entry requirements This course is suitable for anyone with a good major Psychology degree. It is essential that applicants have a Psychology dissertation. It is not necessary to have studied undergraduate neuropsychology but it would be beneficial to show relevant experience or plans to obtain relevant experience of work in an appropriate area. introductory Cognitive Neuropsychology methods deal with applications to ethics Teaching methods and resources The MSc in module, Advanced Neuropsychology, committees, experimental behaviour Teaching methods include lectures, Awards in advanced Advanced Psychopathology and Issues analysis and outcome evaluation. seminars, individual tutorials, small neuropsychology Principles of Applied in Professional Practice. To gain the and large group work, lab work and - MSc Principles - Learn practical Neuropsychology MSc you must complete all four taught Advanced Neuropsychology neuropsychological testing experience. of Applied skills in preparation modules and the dissertation module. This module provides a clinical approach There will be guest speakers from Neuropsychology for a career as a examines the uses There is also a Postgraduate Certificate, to degenerative disorders, ageing, relevant employers as well as research - PGDip Principles scientist- gained by successfully completing two communication disorders visual disorders, talks from existing practitioners. of Applied practitioner of neuropsychology taught modules, and a Postgraduate and childhood developmental disorders. Neuropsychology - An opportunity to Diploma for the successful completion The module focuses on the functions and Tutors - PGCert Principles publish an in the clinical world. of four taught modules. dysfunctions of the frontal lobes. The Course Director: of Applied academic paper Studying the way the The course runs on one afternoon a embedded research methods include Dr Alison Lee Neuropsychology week to allow you time to obtain relevant performing a systematic literature review, BSc (London), PhD (Bristol) Applications brain works is crucial practical experience, should you wish to researching a patient population, and Course length do so. You can study on a full-time or using a test battery. Lecturers: Application forms to psychology and the part-time basis, subject to a maximum Dr Rob Irwin - MSc full-time three are available from of three years full-time or five-years Issues in Professional Practice BA (Kent) PhD (UWE) trimesters (one the website and for understanding of part-time for the MSc. This module introduces students to the Dr Nigel Holt calendar year) any admissions human behaviour. principles of applied psychology and the BSc (Reading) DPhil (York) - MSc part-time up to enquiries please Modules processes of recovery and rehabilitation. five years contact: Neuropsychology is central to the Cognitive Neuropsychology It focuses on the core skills expected of Employability - PGDip full-time two T: +44(0)1225 875624 debate about the spark of individuality This is a theoretical neuropsychology a practitioner of applied psychology: The course is centred on eventual trimesters (one E: admissions@ each human shows. This course looks module, centred on the study of healthy assessment; formulation; intervention; employment as a professional academic year) bathspa.ac.uk at social cognition and affective participants. It provides lectures in hearing, evaluation; communication skills; and psychologist. We aim to enhance your - PGDip part-time neuroscience, as well as studying the speech and language, memory, sensory self-management skills. The embedded skills as a scientist-practitioner, and four trimesters Enquiries emerging field of the neuropsychology processing and perception, motor processing research skills in this module relate to provide a step forward to meeting the - PGCert full-time of mental health problems. and perception. It features embedded the evaluation of clinical practice. criteria for assistant psychologist posts. one trimester Please contact The course is an employability- research methods including issues of The course also offers practical writing - PGCert part-time course director Dr centred extension to an undergraduate research practice, preparing a research Dissertation skills necessary for communicating two trimesters Alison Lee: psychology degree. It is focused on proposal and the misuse of science. This is the opportunity to investigate complex scientific ideas to both a lay T: +44(0)1225 875726 neuropsychology, but is suitable for an area of neuropsychology of individual and specialist audience. Course location E: a.c.lee@ any student interested in preparing for Advanced Psychopathology interest. As part of this module you are bathspa.ac.uk an eventual career as a professional This module includes a required to submit a 5,000–7,000 word Assessment methods Newton Park psychologist. neuropsychological perspective on paper ready for publication in a specified We have selected assessments with campus mental health problems. It features a journal, based on your research. You also the aim to maximise experiences that Course structure and content series of lectures on psychosis, affective have to demonstrate the ability to keep will help with further study. For example, Key features 01-02 Artists impression The course has four 30-credit core disorders, fear disorders, principles of a detailed research log. The research the dissertation element must be written of synapsis firing in the brain modules and a 60-credit dissertation cognitive behavioural therapy, and basic undertaken by students must have in the form of a paper that is ready for - The chance to study 03 Central nervous module. These modules are an pharmacology. The embedded research a neuropsychological focus. submission in an established journal. emerging theories system, Double-M Bath Spa University More information 62/63 N eed more Senior staff Index i n f o r m a t i o n ? and governors
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How to find us Liverpool Campuses Nottingham Bath Spa University has two campuses and a postgraduate centre; Newton Park is four miles Birmingham outside Bath, Sion Hill is in Bath and Corsham Court is 5 miles outside Chippenham. Cardiff Oxford Bristol London Bath Arriving by train For Newton Park campus Bath Spa is the nearest main line station; 5 Carry on along the A4 which is 4 miles from Newton Park and At lights get in right-hand 1.5 miles from Sion Hill. lane and carry straight on Exeter 5a At lights get in left-hand lane Plymouth Arriving by air and carry straight on Bristol International is the nearest 5b Bear left and turn right at lights airport; only 40 minutes away by road, onto dual carriageway (A4) while Birmingham and Heathrow are 6 Join the A39 from the A4 at the approximately a 2 hour journey. “Globe Inn” roundabout (2nd exit). The entrance is immediately on Local buses your left First Bus service 418 runs from Bath M4/M5 From Bristol and West A46 city centre to the Newton Park campus. Bristol 1 First Bus service 700 stops at the Sion For Newton Park campus A Sion Hill Hill campus. First Bus service 2 stops 7 Join the A39 from the A4 at the 431 2 “Globe Inn” roundabout (3rd exit). Royal United Lansdown at the junction of Lansdown Road and A4 Hospital (A+E) Cresent The entrance is immediately on River Avon Sion Road. A4 your left 3 A4 Arriving by car A39 Combe Park A4 From the East and major routes For Sion Hill campus carry on along the Wells 6 4 For Sion Hill campus A4 to Bath (1st exit) Globe A4 Royal A36
Marlborough Marlborough 7 Lane Cresent 6 Fork left just before the lights, Inn A36 5b 5a 1 Join the A46 from the M4 5 (junction 18) at the end of the dual carriageway 2 Turn right onto the A4 to Bath. 5 Turn left for Sion Hill/Somerset Place (signposted “Bath Spa Waterside Court Bus Station 3 From A4; get in right-hand lane Newton to carry straight on (from A36, University”) Park Campus Train turn left onto A4) Station 4 Take second exit at mini-roundabout 5 Turn right for Sion Hill/Somerset A367 Place (signposted “Bath Spa University”)
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Arriving by car Local buses From the east and major routes First Bus service 231/232 runs between Corsham Court Postgraduate Centre Bath and Chippenham via Corsham. - Join the A350 from the M4 (junction 17) The closest bus stop to Corsham Court - Turn right onto the A4 to Bath is Newlands Road, and from there it’s - Continue until you enter Corsham then just a short walk to the mansion house. Chippenham Corsham turn left at the mini roundabout adjacent Service X31 also runs half hourly from Court to Hare and Hounds Public House Bath Bus Station to Corsham. - Follow signs towards town centre - At the second roundabout, take the Where to Park Your Car in Corsham first exit left onto Newlands Road As you turn onto the High Street the A46 Corsham - At the next roundabout, take the Royal Oak public house is approximately A4 second exit right onto Post Office 45 meters on the right hand side. Lane (just past the Somerfield store) Parking for all visitors and students A50 - Follow the road around to the left and is located in the car park to the rear onto the High Street and follow parking (parking permission notice/sign required instructions below. email: [email protected] for info).
From Bath Bath Spa University - Take A4 towards Corsham / Chippenham Corsham Court Campus - Upon entering Corsham, take second Corsham Court, Corsham Bath exit at roundabout onto B3353 Wiltshire, SN13 0BZ Melksham Pickwick Road Tel: +44 (0)1225 876383 - Follow signs towards town centre Fax: +44 (0)1249 714293 - At second roundabout, take the [email protected] first exit left onto Newlands Road - At next roundabout, take the second exit right onto Post Office Lane (just past the Somerfield store) - Follow the road around to the left and onto the High Street and follow parking instructions below. Trowbridge
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