Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
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Study Details: 1 (FT) / 2 (PT) year programme
Full-time or part-time study
Ready to deepen, reset or activate your existing creative practice across a global network? In this Royal College of Art MFA Arts & Humanities, you could be looking at health and care, spatial practices, experimental arts or AI and digital or affective infrastructures. Whatever the theme, you’ll be considering how to address future challenges.
Your live project is an opportunity to engage with the public through an external partner like a hospital trust or local council. Past projects have included everything from running a songwriting camp with patients to bringing a stretch of riverside alive with performances and podcasts, supporting you to bring the Arts and Humanities into contact with diverse people and places.
Experience the collaborative nature of the MFA Arts & Humanities as you work alongside writers, filmmakers, performers, artists and curators. Expand your thinking through external speakers from a range of backgrounds, such as contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects, authors, historians, curators, economists, and performers.
Candidates are selected entirely on merit and applications are welcomed from all over the world, as well as from mid-career artists and career changers. The selection criteria will consider creativity, imagination and innovation as demonstrated in your portfolio or equivalent professional experience, as well as your potential to benefit from the programme and to achieve high MFA standards overall.
You will typically require one or more of the following:
A level 6 qualification such as a Bachelor's degree or Graduate Diploma in a subject associated with the arts or humanities
A level 7, MA, qualification
An arts practice that evidences Master’s level engagement (evidenced via portfolio)
Given the interdisciplinary, outward-facing nature of the programme, alongside the ambition to expand the range of knowledges, approaches and positions that forge what contemporary arts and humanities might be, we also welcome applicants from a broad range of previous disciplines and backgrounds, beyond visual art.
Our programme will help you to situate and adjust your practice through a deeper understanding of the conditions shaping it, and help you build a global community for the future.
Term 1
Conditions (15 credits)
Positions (15 credits)
School Elective 1 (15 credits)
College-wide Elective 1 (15 credits)
Term 2
Live (30 credits)
School Elective 2 (15 credits)
College-wide Elective 2 (15 credits)
Term 3
Research Project (60 credits)
Ranked for twelve consecutive years as the world’s number 1 art & design university*, the Royal College of Art’s postgraduate programmes enable yo...
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