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MA - Master of Arts
City Centre Campus (Millennium Point)
Full Time
Jan 2027
1 Year
Visual Communication at BCU is a dynamic and progressive course, that challenges the way we look at images and text in a present-day context. The world is saturated with visual stimulus and our students are trained to navigate through this, finding ways to impart new information, through graphic design, typography, moving image, illustration and photography. Students on the course are adept at communicating through visual language. Staying ahead in an ever-changing field requires embracing technological advances; you will learn to employ the essential knowledge and skills needed for the new emerging creative industries, and you will be expected to explore, experiment, and push the boundaries of design and image making, whilst being part of a mature and relevant course that has existed for over 50 years. You'll have the chance to learn in our studios and workshops, as well as with our partnerships, with organisations, and industry. You will be involved in learning, teaching, researching, and demonstrating professional development within visual communication.
This module develops analytical, reflective and evaluative design skills, which, through creative thinking, experimentation and iterative design processes, enables you to define your specialist area(s) of professional practice.
This module develops deeper analytical and evaluative skills, promoting critical awareness within your specialism, and advancing your professional relationships through engagement with externally generated professional briefs (Competition or Live), OR self-directed negotiated proposals or brief(s).
The process of constructing and delivering a lecture or other creative forms of presentation to a peer group is an immersive learning process. It requires advanced subject knowledge and a critical thinking approach. Peer learning is a fundamental component of this module.
The purpose of the module is to enable you to undertake a sustained, in-depth and theoretically informed research project exploring an area that is of personal interest to you. It is important that we can support you appropriately, so you will be guided towards choosing a research topic which is relevant to your discipline and in which your lecturers have expertise. The outcome may take the form of a written dissertation or a practical outcome with accompanying reflective, critical and contextual material. The main consideration when choosing your topic is that it must be relevant to your programme and you should consider the relevance of this topic to your future academic or professional development.
4.2Birmingham City University (BCU) has over 31,000 students from over 100 countries. We are a large and diverse university...
