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MA
MA courses challenge students with the task of engaging with their ideas in order to redefine their individual approach to their practice. It is the opportunity for students to build on their achievements and to study at an advanced level.
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Research Degrees
Postgraduate research students registered for MPhil / PhD study for the first time in October 2011. This is an exciting new venture that builds upon our established excellence in undergraduate and Masters level study in the areas of art, design, media and performance.
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Master of Architecture
Master of Architecture - Arts University Bournemouth offers students an exciting and unique opportunity to study on a highly creative postgraduate architecture course. Although students will be embarking on a professional MArch which shares with other QAA Architecture Final Awards in the UK criteria set down by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), here at AUB they will be engaging with a very special context, and with a distinctive approach to architectural education. This course is accredited by ARB and offers RIBA Part 2.
- Full Time
- 2 Years
- Course Leader
- Simon Beeson
- Home/EU Fee
- £8,600 per annum
- International Fee
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MA Animation Production*
New for October 2013
This course will enable students to refine and invigorate their working practices in animation. It is aimed at students who have achieved a bachelor’s degree in animation and/or related practices. It will offer you the opportunity to engage in rigorous and detailed specialisation through the production of a film or body of animation work. *Subject to Validation- Full Time
- 1 Year
- Course Leader
- Dr Paul Ward
- Home/EU Fee
- £8,000 per annum
- International Fee
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MA Architecture: Spatial Practices
The MA Architecture: Spatial Practices course engages you in the potential and complexities of space and spatial design. You may come to the course with a background in architecture, interior design, landscape design, urban design or planning, or may have studied subjects from across the humanities, arts, and social sciences including geography, sociology, psychology, anthropology, fine art and performance.
- Full Time
- 1 Year
- Part Time
- 2 Years
- Course Leader
- Russell Gagg
- Home/EU Fee
- £4,950 per annum
- International Fee
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MA Arts Management Practice*
New for October 2014
This course is aimed at students with an understanding of arts management, who wish to extend their study and those from a creative production background, who wish to develop skills in production management. It is also suitable for those wishing to get an understanding of different types and styles of management practice and the implications that they have on creative production. This MA seeks to draw together the realities of creative production and practice and the best of management thinking and theory. It will look at a strategic skillsets – e.g. creative vision, finance, leadership and marketing and the historic, social and political contexts that artists and organisations operate in. This will include production contexts such as indoor, outdoor, commissioned and educational work. Students will be encouraged to work with an agreed host partner arts organisation which may be of their choosing or drawn from the University’s well established networks. The MA seeks to examine and identify good management practice. It will enable students and the creative organisations they study sustain and develop their productive capacity through innovative thinking and leading industry practice. For more details contact Admissions on +44 1202 363228 *Subject to Validation- International Fee
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MA Contemporary Performance
The MA Contemporary Performance course encourages students to engage with a broad range of theoretical and practical approaches to ‘performance making’.
- Full Time
- 1 Year
- Part Time
- 2 Years
- Course Leader
- Sean Aita
- Home/EU Fee
- £4,950 per annum
- International Fee
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MA Costume Scenography
The MA Costume Scenography course engages the student in the potential of performance design and garment construction to explore complex ideas that may stray into other areas of artistic experimentation.
- Full Time
- 1 Year
- Part Time
- 2 Years
- Course Leader
- Rebecca Pride
- Home/EU Fee
- £4,950 per annum
- International Fee
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MA Design Interactions*
This course is suited to students from a variety of backgrounds including those with experience in the following subjects: product design, graphic design, new media and web design. *Subject to Validation Apply now
- Full Time
- 1 Year
- Part Time
- 2 Years
- Course Leader
- Peter Phillips
- Home/EU Fee
- £4,950 per annum
- International Fee
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MA Fashion
The MA Fashion course is designed to enable students from a broad range of Fashion related areas to engage with Masters level study. The course embraces the distinctive characteristics of the provision including a multi-disciplinary learning environment that supports the student’s individual creative journey.
- Full Time
- 1 Year
- Part Time
- 2 Years
- Course Leader
- Anthony Bednall
- Home/EU Fee
- £4,950 per annum
- International Fee
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MA Film Production*
New for October 2013
MA Film Production is a ‘hands on‘ film production course, where originality and creative exploration is encouraged within a forcing ground for proven talent. This course is designed to hone and develop your filmmaking skills and individual vision in preparation for a future career in the exciting, but capricious world of professional storytelling for the screen. This intensive, 15 month, four-term practice based course has been designed by experienced practicing film professionals as a bridge to the industry. *Subject to Validation- Full Time
- 1.3 Years
- Course Leader
- David Munns, Malcolm Mowbray
- Home/EU Fee
- £12,000
- International Fee
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MA Fine Art
The MA Fine Art course enables you to develop your practice as an artist within a supportive, analytical and critical environment. It engages with the forefront of contemporary art practice and seeks to contribute a dynamic voice within it.
- Full Time
- 1 Year
- Part Time
- 2 Years
- Course Leader
- Mike Griffiths
- Home/EU Fee
- £4,950 per annum
- International Fee
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MA Graphic Design
The MA Graphic Design course encourages designers to explore ways of developing understanding between co-communicators. You will do this by systematically interrogating design practice, through using design methods to analyse and comprehend situations and behaviour and by generating alternative and novel visual solutions.
- Full Time
- 1 Year
- Part Time
- 2 Years
- Course Leader
- Phil Jones
- Home/EU Fee
- £4,950 per annum
- International Fee
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MA Illustration
The MA Illustration course encourages practitioners to question the nature of their practice and its context and position relative to the creative industries. It recognises an expansive understanding of illustration through the exploration of relationships between illustrator as author, their audience and presentation, and sites and contexts for the work.
- Full Time
- 1 Year
- Part Time
- 2 Years
- Course Leader
- Lisa Richardson
- Home/EU Fee
- £4,950 per annum
- International Fee
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MA Interactive Media
The MA Interactive Media course supports advanced artists and designers who wish to develop and refine their practice in a wide range of digital media. It is of particular relevance for practitioners wishing to engage directly with skills in interaction design, installation and user-centered design, whilst challenging perceptions of the production and delivery of content in new-media.
- Full Time
- 1 Year
- Part Time
- 2 Years
- Course Leader
- Phil Beards
- Home/EU Fee
- £4,950 per annum
- International Fee
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MA Photography
The MA Photography course recognises and celebrates a photographic practice that is an increasingly demanding, diverse, complex, challenging and compelling experience. Students engage in a practice within a resource that understands the importance of antiquarian processes through to contemporary forms.
- Full Time
- 1 Year
- Part Time
- 2 Years
- Course Leader
- David Hazel
- Home/EU Fee
- £4,950 per annum
- International Fee
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MPhil / PhD
Arts University Bournemouth is committed to offering a unique and innovative programme of Postgraduate study and provides a specialist environment for those who wish to engage with their chosen discipline in greater depth and to enhance their potential for professional practice or academic progression.
- Full Time
- 3 Years
- Home/EU Fee
- £4,550 per annum
- International Fee
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