入学要求 Requirement:
学术要求:You will have an Honours Degree in a relevant subject, or a professional or academic qualification recognised as equivalent to an Honours Degree. If you do not have the required qualifications, but do have professional experience, you may be eligible to gain credit for previous learning and experience through the AP(E)L system.
Portfolio advice
Your portfolio should cover your most recent commercial or academic activity, showing your aptitude and ability in design. This can be supported with documents showing your working processes and research (i.e. sketchbooks). Also include any other projects that indicate your personal areas of interest in this aspect of communication.
英语要求:IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL 90
学费 Tuition Fee:2011/2012 £13,300
课程特征 Course Features:
The MA Graphic Moving Image course references traditional moving image - such as documentary, short narrative film and broadcast design. However, it also recognises that convergent technology has changed the pattern of our society. We have now all become authors actively engaging and communicating through viral networks, blogs and accessible graphic user interfaces.
课程内容 Course Content :
Phase 1
•Unit 1.1 Design Literacy
•Unit 1.2 Research Methods (Visual Research)
•Unit 1.3 Major Project Proposal
Phase 1 involves a process of reflection on the design process itself, through a practical project exploring the fundamental principles of design literacy and visual grammar alongside a series of lectures and seminars reflecting upon research methodologies in theory and practice and the wider contextual framework for contemporary graphic branding.
Phase 2
•Unit 2.1 Workshop Options Project
•Unit 2.2 Design + Rhetoric
•Unit 2.3 Research Methods: Major Project Definition
•Postgraduate Diploma (Exit Award)
Phase 2 of the course moves your Major Project Proposal forward through a series of practical and contextual stages toward a clearly defined and evaluated research question for the final Major Project in Phase 3.
Phase 3
•Unit 3.1 Major Project Resolution: Practical and Report
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•Unit 3.2 Major Project Resolution: Thesis
The MA Major Project undertaken during Phase 3 builds on the knowledge and skills acquired during the earlier phases, together with the defined and tested rationale developed in the Major Project Proposal and Definition stages of the course, and applies these in the creation of an original design research project.