入学要求 Requirement:
学术要求 Honours degree; evidence of experiential learning equivalent to a degree; or 3 years relevant professional experience.
英语要求:English language requirement for entry is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in any one paper, or equivalent.
学费 Tuition Fee:Fees for 2013 will be published as soon as they are available
课程特征 Course Features:
MA Applied Imagination takes a position that challenges the tradition of defining knowledge as something that can simply be learnt from the experience of others.
You embark on a learning journey that begins with co-creation and the unblocking of individual and collective resistance to change, and concludes with a very personal research project that has the potential to change your life.
课程内容 Course Content :
We utilize a two-step strategy to enable you to develop and apply new creative knowledge
Unit One - Imagination
This unit involves opening and informing your imagination and we facilitate this by exploiting the interdisciplinary and cultural cross-fertilization that our postgraduate programme provides.
The principal strategy involves teamwork in which rotating groups of students work with each other to respond to projects that are deliberately created to get your adrenalin pumping. Briefs are freshly created each year to challenge contemporary expectations and assumptions.
Project are short and demanding, rarely lasting more than two weeks and deliberately asking questions that defy predictable answers: For example we might ask you: 'If money had a smell what should it smell like?'
A question like this tends to challenge everyone not least because it acknowledges our capacity to utilize our embodied knowledge in a strategy of sensuous scholarship that employs the full range of our multi-sensory capability.
This strategy of taking you outside of the familiar conventions of creativity tends to quickly locate the discipline and culturally condition resistances to change. We are concerned to build awareness of personal and collective resistances that may inhibit the creation of new paradigms.
Unit Two - Application
This unit becomes a much more personal journey in which each student devises and completes their own research project.
We never predict or prescribe the best way forward but we support our students in finding their own 'best way.'
For some students this will be personal and entrepreneurial, for others it may be the opportunity for a radical reassessment of themselves, their values and their potential.
We enable this ambition for productive change by a deceptively simple educational strategy that is based on the concept of a 'journey of discovery' in other words 'your journey.'
We require all students to create a question to frame their research mission and to give that question dimension through a series of artefacts that enable you to take your question into the real world in order to ascertain evidence of resistance and support.
The journey is fully documented in a series of diaries in which you record what you have done, why you did it and what you have learnt.
The MA Applied Imagination journey is completed with an exhibition that comprises evidence of the journey taken and the knowledge gained. The exhibition will feature your question, your artefacts, your diaries and a 650-word synopsis of the knowledge that you have gained.