Course summary
This innovative approach to Design Management enables you to develop the management, enterprise and academic skills and attributes that ensure you will be able to know how to commercialise your practices and make social impact.
- In this module, you'll engage in a number of the key debates and concerns that influence contemporary Design Management.
- You'll explore strategies for working with designers to manage both the people and the products and services.
- You'll develop an understanding of sustainability which is vital in today's design industry.
- The MA will be taught in partnership with a number of departments within Goldsmiths and with key individuals and organisations in the creative and cultural industries sector.
- Our collective approach is to integrate entrepreneurship within the development of creative practices and to take a ‘creative’ approach to the development of new businesses and the infrastructure that supports them.
Modules
The programme contains four taught modules and a further dissertation/portfolio component. Attendance is mandatory for all taught sections of the programme. To encourage collaborative learning we try to teach all students together wherever possible, irrespective of their particular pathway. Compulsory modules You'll take the following compulsory modules: Theories of Capital 30 Credits Entrepreneurial Modelling 30 credits Design and Fashion Management 30 credits You will also complete either a Dissertation or a Project. Dissertation 90 credits or Project/Portfolio 90 credits Optional modules Additionally, you will also take one of the following modules: Business of Design 30 credits or Industry Placement 30 credits or Business of Creative Industries 30 Credits Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.
Entry requirements
You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject. You might also be considered if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level. We accept a wide range of international qualifications. If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0 to study this programme.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Additional fee information
For details of fees and funding please visit https://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/fees-funding/ or the programme page on our website.
Provider information
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
Lewisham
SE14 6NW