Design, Communication and Experiences MA
The University of Northampton
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This new multidisciplinary programme allows you to explore the communicative potential of a range of media channels to propose rich and immersive experiences that respond to complex social and commercial needs. By challenging norms and pushing critical, creative, and strategic processes we seek to equip you with the skills to become innovative, transformative, and disruptive communicators in the post-digital age.Design, Communication and Experiences MA is suitable for those with interests in ...Read more

This new multidisciplinary programme allows you to explore the communicative potential of a range of media channels to propose rich and immersive experiences that respond to complex social and commercial needs. By challenging norms and pushing critical, creative, and strategic processes we seek to equip you with the skills to become innovative, transformative, and disruptive communicators in the post-digital age.

Design, Communication and Experiences MA is suitable for those with interests in graphic communication, visual communication, spatial design, fine arts, advertising, UX/UI, XR transformation and more.

This studio-based MA encourages the free exchange and sharing of ideas, experimentation, peer group research, analysis, and critical evaluation within a positive and supportive environment. It seeks to develop graduates with strong self-belief and the ‘soft skills’ to confidently present their work and opinions.

Specifically, the MA Design, Communication and Experiences programme allows a space to think broadly around emerging societal and commercial visual communication needs and offers students from industrial or academic backgrounds opportunities to experiment with ideas and concepts to create a portfolio of conceptual and speculative work.

Course Details

On MA Design, Communication and Experiences we welcome students from backgrounds in art, design, and technology, who wish to explore their practice through a mixture of traditional design practices and emerging technologies. This creative programme provides a post-graduate route for design professionals and academics to enter a global community, armed with the thinking skills they need to become the transformative communicators of the future.

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50/101
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120th
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Lauren
03 Mar 22

I have had an overall great experience so far at uni with support offered whenever I have needed it. I have had no bad experience at all during the two years I have studied..Read more

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Louis
03 Mar 22

It has been good but Covid has got in the way of a typical uni experience..Read more

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Entry requirements

Applicants will normally have an honours degree with a first or upper second classification in a related creative, graphic, media or interactive design discipline. Other candidates with relevant industrial experience may also be accepted on a case-by-case basis.

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£8,250 per year

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£16,995 per year

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Buildingy23m02, University Drive Waterside Campus Northampton NN1 5PH United Kingdom
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