Design MA
University of Chester
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Advance your professional and personal design practice and develop your skills through the questioning of design methods and theory.Course overviewThis course is intended for practitioners from a range of design disciplines wanting to advance their design practice and develop their skill base while developing a greater understanding of the theoretical knowledge underpinning design processes. In a creative and challenging interdisciplinary environment, design theories are questioned and ...Read more

Advance your professional and personal design practice and develop your skills through the questioning of design methods and theory.

Course overview

This course is intended for practitioners from a range of design disciplines wanting to advance their design practice and develop their skill base while developing a greater understanding of the theoretical knowledge underpinning design processes. In a creative and challenging interdisciplinary environment, design theories are questioned and established while individual creative solutions are explored.

Why study this course with us?

Our course looks across traditional boundaries within visual design practices, encouraging you to develop design possibilities for your individual practice while examining theoretical and professional contexts.

We will encourage you to engage with design discourses and new directions, thereby contextualising your individual practice.

Our course will initially facilitate the contextualisation of your practice, through research methods, current contexts, and playful exploratory design practice. Then, you will have the opportunity to develop your understanding of project management, effective collaboration, and the communication of design practice to professional audiences. Lastly, the final major project provides a chance to undertake a significant self-initiated design project.

Assessment

Assessment is through a combination of practical and written work that will include:

  • design artefacts
  • academic papers
  • project reports
  • sketchbooks
  • self-reflective journals
  • presentations
  • exhibitions

Careers and Employability

Student Futures aims to deliver a service which is inclusive, impartial, welcoming, informed and tailored to your personal goals and aspirations, to enable you to develop as an individual and contribute to the business and community in which you will live and work.

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2/101
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56th
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Modules

Modules (Year 1)
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Entry requirements

Candidates will hold a 2:1 honours degree in an appropriate Design subject, or have evidence of recent professional work equivalent to honours degree standard. Through the submission of a portfolio and statement of intent on application, then further through interview, candidates must be able to demonstrate a level of knowledge and competence appropriate to the demands of the course and to demonstrate the potential to benefit from that study. Consideration will be given to those who hold a lower classification who can demonstrate they are capable of performing at the level required to complete the course successfully.

Tuition fees

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£8,505 per year

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Students from Domestic

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This is the fee you pay if the University is in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)

£14,750 per year

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Students from EU

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The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.

£14,750 per year

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University of Chester
Kingsway Chester Cheshire CH2 2LB United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Bache  0.4 miles away
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