入学要求 Requirement：
学术要求：MA Communication Design are: 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：2012/13 £9,900 per year
课程特征 Course Features：
Communication is one of the profound achievements of human evolution. Its ever-developing complexity, its unpredictability and its application possibilities are at the heart of MA Communication Design at Central Saint Martins. As the 'operating system of the 21st century', communication design touches every sphere of human and political interest, impacting profoundly on culture, finance, globalisation, localisation, policymaking, socio-economic development, sustainability and much more.
课程内容 Course Content ：
MA Communication Design is offered in a two-year, 60-week, extended full-time (EFT) mode, requiring approximately 30 hours study per week. Taught delivery is normally timetabled across three days per week including self-directed study.
MA Communication Design is credit-rated at 180 credits, and comprises two units as follows: Unit 1: 60; Unit 2: 120 credits.
Students must pass both units to be considered for the award of MA, with the award of a distinction being based on the achievement in Unit 2 only.
Unit 1: Shared Language
This unit acts as an induction into the College and to the subject of communication design by establishing a shared language and foundation for your postgraduate learning. Through an immersion into communication design as a problem solving discipline and service, we encourage you to engage with the subject’s purpose, context and opportunities.
The unit introduces you to critical thinking and discourses within the subject debate, utilising a collaborative, team- based approach to learning. It supports you in establishing the necessary contextual knowledge and research skills needed to explore the subject and locate yourselves within it, whilst establishing what is, or might be possible in terms of communication design and its responsibilities. The unit offers the opportunity to experiment, take informed risks, engage with uncertainty and learn from failure.
This Unit helps to re-enforce and define the critical position of your practice, and in particular the development of a Programme of Study for your Major Project in Unit 2.
Unit 2: Communication question
Unit 2 acts as a natural extension to Unit 1, providing the opportunity for manifesting and materialising Masters level processes and methods of enquiry and evaluation in the form of a substantive, coherent and extended collection of practical and written product relating to the exploration of the communication design question. It lasts for 40 weeks, from term 3 in Year One until the end of the course, and builds in regular formative assessment opportunities.
The emphasis of the Unit is your interrogation and gradual focusing of your research question, manifested through a variety of visual and text-based outcomes, as appropriate. Towards the end of the course, you complete and present a research paper at a College-hosted Symposium – using the experiences of Unit 2, your projects and their outcomes to explain and substantiate the communication question you have been interrogating.
The unit’s teaching and learning is essentially self-directed supported by regular supervisory points of contact consisting of seminar discussions, presentations and individual tutorials.
Throughout the unit professional practice talks and UAL research network events provide the necessary professional and research currency