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Study Details: MA 15 months full-time
MA Illustration enables you to build on your visual practice in a variety of conventional and non-conventional contexts. You’ll develop your visual thinking, research and storytelling abilities.
You’ll be working on ambitious projects alongside students from diverse creative and cultural backgrounds. This will help you to extend the range of your practice to adapt to a rapidly changing professional landscape.
What to expect:
The standard minimum entry requirements for this course are:
Entry to this course will also be determined by the quality of your application, looking primarily at your portfolio of work and personal statement.
APEL - Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning
Applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered in exceptional cases. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:
Each application will be considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.
For fees and funding information, please see website
Unit 1 - Locate, identify and position
This unit is an introduction to your course, the College and the University. You’ll identify, map and develop your methods as an illustrator. You’ll expand your visual approaches by exploring a range of materials and media. Your written work will articulate your position as an illustrator. You’ll have an introduction to enquiry and practice methods and a programme of critical and theoretical study.
Unit 2 - Intersect, converge, focus, trajectory
You will focus on your own enquiry and consider how to build sustainable momentum in your practice. You’ll work with a group of peers to create a collective publication on a topic that is of shared importance . Contemporary practice will be explored through a visiting speakers programme. Seminars, tutorials and workshops will deepen your knowledge of illustration.
Unit 3 - Realisations
The final unit of the course will focus on the production of your major project. You’ll take part in professional development and practice workshops, seminars and a series of lectures and visiting practitioner talks.
Note: 120 Credits must be passed before the final unit is undertaken.
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