📖Program Curriculum
This Design Master’s runs over one and is divided into three trimesters
Trimester one
We encourage playfulness and risk-taking and ask you to respond to a range of instructions in ways that will allow you to interrogate how you work – without threatening your approach Right from the start you'll begin to gather primary and secondary research that will feed into your assessments
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 begin to narrow your focus Academic staff will help you evaluate your development and refine your work to support the project outcome You’ll be encouraged to pay greater attention to the way in which your project functions and engages its audience Technical staff will support you to bring your project to a level appropriate for the assessment submission
Trimester three
A self-directed double practice module leads to your final Degree Show You’ll establish a line of enquiry working to a proposal of your devising which positions your work within your specialist discipline You’ll work in the studio with increasing independence to produce a body of work that demonstrates your now advanced knowledge and understanding of your professional practice
