Visual Communication (with Advanced Practice) MA course
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-01 | 2023-07-09 |
| 2024-01-01 | 2023-11-26 |
Program Overview
Course overview
Accredited
This specialist programme reflects the dynamic contemporary practices within the creative industries. It stimulates you to create challenging solutions to real-world design issues to create innovators and leaders in the field of visual communication. You identify the key transferable skills to help you create or respond to career opportunities or undertake further research.
You consider branding, graphic design, illustration, marketing, user experience, new media and future technologies – exploring and visually representing important information. You explore scenario building, fore sighting and future proofing as important factors in establishing the direction of your work and potential developments in design, communication and cultural industries.This course prepares you, as a creative individual, for professional practice in developing new business ideas, products, systems and artefacts. And it provides a stimulating environment to support high-level enquiry into emerging and future aspects of creative practice, through individual and collaborative action. You benefit from existing work that staff are doing around interactive technology and social design.The one-year programme is a great option if you want to gain a traditional MSc / MA qualification. The two-year master’s degree with advanced practice enhances your qualification by adding a vocational or research based internship to the one-year master’s programme.A vocational internship is a great way to gain work experience and give your CV a competitive edge. A research internship provides you with the opportunity to develop your analytical, team-working, research and academic skills by working alongside a research team in an academic setting. We guarantee a research internship, but cannot guarantee a vocational internship. We will, however, provide you with practical support and advice on how to find and secure your own vocational internship position should you prefer this type of internship.
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Program Outline
Extracted Information from Teesside University's Visual Communication (with Advanced Practice) MA Course
Degree Overview:
- Focus: Communicating small and big data in visual ways, including graphic design, visual communication, and infographics.
- Objectives:
- Create challenging solutions to real-world design issues.
- Become an innovator and leader in visual communication.
- Develop key transferable skills for careers or further research.
- Program:
- One-year program with the option for an additional year of Advanced Practice.
- Full-time, on-campus program.
Outline:
- Stage 1:
- Group research projects
- Development of professional skills, ideas, and research
- Opportunity for co-working, partnerships, and collaborations
- Evaluation of interests for enterprise potential
- Proposal of innovative outputs
- Stage 2:
- Culminates in a feasibility study for a research project
- Stage 3:
- One semester of full-time work in industry, a major research project, studying or working abroad
- Opportunity to develop analytical, teamwork, research, and academic skills
- Stage 4:
- Directing and displaying major project work
- Supported by tutorials and studio interaction
- Future ambitions and plans for the project
Assessment:
- Primarily in-course assessments: submitted throughout the module
- No end-of-course exams
- Design modules are project-based and assessed through portfolio review and presentations
- Focus on development work and problem-solving process, not just final result
Teaching:
- Active student role in structuring their own learning
- Tutorials, seminars, and workshops
- Individual support through personal tutor
- Research as an essential part of study
- Lectures and briefings to introduce topics
- Hands-on experience with practical workshops, independent learning, project work and critiques
- Critical reflection as key to problem solving and design process
Other:
- Creative UK membership opportunities
- Association of Illustrators membership benefits
- Launchpad module preparing students for exiting to industry
Careers:
- Design-related employment
- Develop new business propositions
- Creative director
- Designer maker
- Freelance designer
- Creative entrepreneur
- Doctoral study
- Vocational internships: gain work experience in industry (one-year program only)
- Research internships: develop research and academic skills (one-year program only)
Note:
This program is also available part-time, but this information is not included in the provided context. I hope this information is helpful! Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Tuition Fees and Payment Information:
Tuition Fees:
- UK Applicants: £4,770 per year
- International Applicants: £10,000 per year
Additional Information:
- More details about fees can be found in the following links:
- UK Applicants: https://www.tees.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/visual-communication-with-advanced-practice/fees/
- International Applicants: https://www.tees.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/visual-communication-with-advanced-practice/fees/international/
- The length of the program depends on the start date:
- September enrolment: 20 months
- January enrolment: 2 years
- Start dates are available in September or January
- The program is not available part-time
