Course summary
Develop genuine skill, understanding and confidence, and take your practice to a professional level with our MA Design.
- Reach your creative potential through exciting professional projects and exhibitions.
- Learn from accomplished design professionals, with excellent academic and technical support.
- Work in dedicated studio spaces and benefit from excellent workshop and fabrication facilities.
Modules
This Design Master’s runs over one year and is divided into three trimesters. Trimester one From the start of the programme we encourage playfulness and risk-taking. You’ll begin by making work that responds to a range of instructions in ways that will help you to interrogate your practical approach, and to learn from lecturers and other students as you progress. You'll develop primary and secondary research that will feed directly into your practical work and assessments, and the project that you produce will form the basis for your developing practice. We introduce a range of key issues in design and communication practice that allow you to explore how your specialist pathway relates to the wider field and to gain professional, critical and collaborative working skills. We introduce a range of key issues in design and communication practice and allow you to explore how your specialist areas relate to the wider field. You’ll also begin to develop your professional practice skills such as marketing, social media, IT, collaborative working and exhibition installation. Trimester two Maintaining an experimental approach, you'll consolidate what you are leaning and begin to narrow your focus within your chosen pathway or subject area. Academic staff will help you evaluate your development and refine your approach to support your project outcome. You’ll be encouraged to scrutinise the way in which your project functions and engages its audience. With help from our excellent subject specialists, technical demonstrators and technicians, you will hone the conceptual, technical aesthetic and contextual components of your project. Trimester three In the final trimester, you will work exclusively on your Masters Project. This is a self-directed, double practice module and you’ll be working towards your final Degree Show. By this stage you'll have established a line of enquiry for your practice and will be working to a proposal for the show that you have developed. You’ll work in the studio with increasing independence to produce a body of work that demonstrates your advanced knowledge and understanding of your professional practice. The final MA Show exhibition will take place at the Locksbrook campus and will be open to the public.
Assessment method
Your progress is evaluated by formative assessment (throughout the duration of the course) and summative assessment (at the end of each trimester), through a mixture of exhibitions, verbal/visual presentations, research folders/blogs and written assignments.
Entry requirements
We're looking for energetic and self-motivated individuals who can work on their own but also see the value in working in collaboration with others. They should enjoy asking questions and solving creative problems. You’ll need a good undergraduate degree in a design, visual communication or art specialism, or its equivalent in terms of learning or experience, and a good working knowledge of design, visual communication or art contexts. Fundamentally, you’ll be selected on your ability to thrive on this course, as demonstrated by your portfolio and interview.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £9950 | Whole course |
| Northern Ireland | £9950 | Whole course |
| Scotland | £9950 | Whole course |
| Wales | £9950 | Whole course |
| Channel Islands | £9950 | Whole course |
| Republic of Ireland | £9950 | Whole course |
| EU | £18560 | Year 1 |
| International | £18560 | Year 1 |
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
Bath Spa University
Newton Park
Newton St Loe
Bath
BA2 9BN