Course summary
The MA Interior Design at Cardiff Met will prepare you to play a key role in tackling climate change through environmentally sustainable interior design and specification. The construction industry accounts for a significant proportion of the UK’s total carbon footprint, but responsible, innovative interior design can develop more sustainable solutions for new and existing buildings alike. Our Interior Design Masters degree examines strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation, exploring relevant theories and techniques within the discipline. Interior designers and architects have a unique opportunity to work directly with clients, advising them of their environmental and social responsibility, to creatively design functional and sustainable spaces that cater for human experience and habitation. The MA Interior Design challenges you to create interior spaces that account for climate change and longevity, with a focus on design for occupant health and wellbeing, alongside the specification of environmentally sustainable products, materials and techniques. This Masters degree in interior design will encourage you to engage with key theories and contemporary debates. This will foster your understanding of how these can influence the conception, development and communication of your ideas, which will impact upon the success of your future practice as an interior designer or architect. If you are looking to deepen your knowledge and understanding of what it means to be a climate conscious interior designer, and/or extend and develop your sustainable design practice to support your future as a practitioner, researcher or academic, the MA Interior Design at Cardiff Met is for you. Possible exit points - MA/PgD/PgC
Modules
Our Masters in Interior Design is driven by the student's self-defined project. To support this, each student is allocated a Personal Tutor and additional subject-specialist members of staff from within the Cardiff School of Art and Design. Together they form the student’s Supervisory Team. The nature of the discipline is such that the course will rely on skilled practitioners as the key facilitators of learning, and, reflecting this, a variety of delivery mechanisms will be deployed. However, they will all have a common focus in that they will seek to develop the skills of students as proactive and reflective independent learners. As a part of this programme students will study the following modules: Semester 1 In Semester 1 you will undertake two integrated parallel modules: ART7776 Vision (40 credits) ART7771 Context and Methodologies Part 1 (20 credits) Tailored to the MA Interior Design programme, these modules are designed to cultivate your ability to position your ideas within a critical framework that highlights issues arising within contemporary Interior design and beyond, whilst advancing your scholarship in your chosen area of research. Semester 2 In Semester 2 you will undertake two integrated parallel common modules: Idea and Contexts. ART7773 Idea (40 credits) ART7772 Context and Methodologies Part 2 (20 credits) 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 with a particular focus on climate conscious, environmentally sustainable interior design and specification. Semester 3 In Semester 3 you will undertake one module: ART7774 Output (60 credits) This module is comprised of two integrated activities equivalent to 60 credits. The module consolidates the research findings through the realisation of your major project to form an exhibition (June/July) and a written paper or article (September). The MA Interior Design exhibition will showcase your practical design work, including product and materials specification. Exit points:
- On completing 60 credits in total students may be awarded a Postgraduate Certificate.
- On completing 120 credits in total students may be awarded a Postgraduate Diploma.
Assessment method
The learning outcomes are assessed within the modules through a variety of methods including written essays, verbal presentations and project work etc, as outlined in individual module descriptors. Assessment takes place at strategic points in the academic year to enable and support your continued development. Group critiques and tutorials offer continuous feedback opportunities. Peer and self-assessment is used extensively.
Qualified teacher status (QTS)
To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:
- Course does not award QTS
Entry requirements
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 an appropriate subject, e.g. interior design, architecture, architecture design technology, or a cognate discipline, based upon assessed Accredited Prior Learning (RPL) or assessed Accredited Prior Experiential Learning (RPEL), or a discipline associated with their programme of study. International Applicants Students whose first language is not English will need to provide evidence of fluency to at least an IELTS 6.0 standard or equivalent. For full details about how to apply and English Language qualifications please visit the International pages on the Cardiff Met website. Before making an application, EU/International students are asked to contact Dr Fiaz Hussain [email protected] to discuss the necessary procedures in relation to studying with us.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| Republic of Ireland | £11000 | Whole course |
| England | £11000 | Whole course |
| Northern Ireland | £11000 | Whole course |
| Scotland | £11000 | Whole course |
| Wales | £11000 | Whole course |
| EU | £17600 | Whole course |
| International | £17600 | Whole course |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Cardiff
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