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Study Details: MA/PGDip/PGCert One year full-time or two years part-time.
The MA Ceramics & Maker course aims to enable you to identify your true interests and concerns as an artist, designer or maker and to develop appropriate methods to explore your ideas and articulate or express them effectively in imaginative or innovative ways through a range of media.
This Master’s degree encourages you to engage with key theories and contemporary debates, fostering your understandings of the ways in which these influence the development, expression and communication of your ideas, which will impact upon the success of your future practice as an artist, maker or academic.
The MA Ceramics & Maker course is for individuals seeking to extend and develop their practice as well as deepen their knowledge and understandings of the subject, as future practitioners, researchers or academics.
The MA programme allows each student to:
You will normally have achieved a first class or second class upper division first degree (1st or 2.1 degree classification) in an appropriate subject, and/or equivalent professional standing or experience in a design, design crafts, or creative Industries discipline (based upon assessed Accredited Prior Learning or assessed Accredited Prior Experiential Learning), or a discipline associated with their programme of study.
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The MA Ceramics & Maker programme enables students to enhance their careers as, or to become, established artists, makers, or designers leading towards a career, a PhD, or to a Professional Doctorate in either art or design. Cardiff School of Art and Design offers Professional Doctoral programs in both Art and Design.
The MA Ceramics & Maker programme is designed to enable students to achieve the attributes of greater flexibility, adaptability, and individual responsibility and autonomy as professional designers or researchers. The course aims to develop individuality, creativity, self-reliance, initiative, and the ability to perform in rapidly changing environments as well as increasing competence with research skills and methods which will make graduates highly employable as academics and/or researchers, or enable them to develop an active and sustained practice as designers.
Semester 1
In Semester 1 you will undertake two integrated parallel modules: Question and Methodologies.
The Question module is bespoke to the programme, designed to cultivate your ability to position your ideas within a critical framework that highlights issues arising within contemporary Ceramics & Making and beyond whilst advancing your scholarship in your chosen area of research to inform a research and enterprise proposal.
Semester 2
In Semester 2 you will undertake two integrated parallel common modules: Idea and Contexts.
These modules are designed to support continued advanced scholarship to contextualise and put into action the research proposal you developed in Semester 1 in relation to global, ethical, social and political concerns.
Semester 3
In Semester 3 you will undertake one module: Output. The module is comprised of two integrated activities equivalent to 60 credits.
The Output module consolidates the research findings through the realisation of your major project to form a curated exhibition (June/July) and a written paper or article. (September).
The MA Ceramics & Maker exhibition will showcase your practical work consolidating your creative vision.
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