Course summary
Why study this course? Pursue your ambitions as a graphic designer with this specialised visual communication master’s degree. Based at The Cass, you’ll benefit from everything our revered school of art, architecture and design has to offer – from its central London location and the collaborative, multidisciplinary nature of the School to the esteemed visual communication staff and their strong industry networks. Completing our Visual Communication: Graphic Design MA course will enable you to hit the ground running as you begin a career in your chosen field. More about this course Our Visual Communication: Graphic Design course will allow you to develop a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to your practice as a visual communicator whose specialist expertise lies in graphic design. With an emphasis on research, experimentation and creative risk-taking, the course will empower you to graduate as a professional practitioner at the forefront of your field. You’ll leave the course with a clear sense of your own role as a designer in the world. During this master’s degree in graphic design you’ll find theory and practice meet and inform one another as you implement an interconnected approach to research and design. In turn, this will help you to refine your portfolio of professional-level work and thus demonstrate your advanced problem solving, creativity and critical thinking skills. This course will expand your critical thinking abilities through design practices, which will enable you to work both speculatively and on fully realised outcomes. Through design research methods and design project development you will develop a project proposal to complete as your final major project. With a particular focus on socially-engaged design, our Visual Communication: Graphic Design course will encourage you to explore the social, cultural, ethical and economic impacts of graphic design practice. The course will provide opportunities for:
- professional industry practice – take part in live project briefs with industry partners
- situating your practice – learn about formulating a clear direction for your practice
- complex problem solving and critical thinking
- collaborative and multi-disciplinary working
- building knowledge through research and development
- challenging your approach to communicating and presenting your thinking and outcomes
- exhibiting your work
Modules
For full module details please visit the course page on the university website. Example modules for this course include: Design Research for Practice, core module (40 credits); Design Project Development, core module (40 credits); World Building, optional core module (20 credits); Experience and Environment, optional core module (20 credits); Democratising Luxury, optional core module (20 credits); Design for Change, optional core module (20 credits); Project as Professional Practice: Graphic Design, core module (60 credits)
Assessment method
Your written, visual and physical project work and research will form a portfolio that best represents your skills, interests and abilities, and that will be used to assessed you. These projects will relate to the specific practice requirements of graphic design and visual communication. Your MA will come to an end in the form of a final major project. This is a chance for you to pursue your interests and devise an argument or stance from which you will produce an independent body of work. Whilst challenging your creative ambition, this project will help you demonstrate your relationship with the area that interests you. Your final graphic design project will be exhibited at the MA graduation show hosted at our central London campus.
Entry requirements
You will be required to have: a good lower second class honours degree (2.2) in a relevant field (eg graphic design, illustration, animation, branding, photography, architecture, marketing, 3D design, multimedia, interiors), or an equivalent EU/international qualification You will also be expected to present a portfolio and provide a statement demonstrating your ambition for the subject area and for studying at postgraduate level. Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) If you don’t hold one of the qualifications outlined above you may be considered based on proven related academic or work experience, a strong personal statement and/or academic or professional reference.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £1170 | Module |
| Northern Ireland | £1170 | Module |
| Scotland | £1170 | Module |
| Wales | £1170 | Module |
| EU | £2020 | Module |
| International | £2020 | Module |
| Channel Islands | £2020 | Module |
| Republic of Ireland | £2020 | Module |
Additional fee information
Please note, in addition to the tuition fee there may be additional costs for things like equipment, materials, printing, textbooks, trips or professional body fees. Additionally, there may be other activities that are not formally part of your course and not required to complete your course, but which you may find helpful (for example, optional field trips). The costs of these are additional to your tuition fee and the fees set out above and will be notified when the activity is being arranged.
Provider information
London Metropolitan University
Admissions Office
166-220 Holloway Road
City of London
N7 8DB