Normally an honours degree in a related discipline, a recognised equivalent qualification or professional experience.
IELTs 6.5 with minimum of 5.5 in each component
PTE 61 (with no less than 51 in each component)
TOEFL iBT: 85 overall, 18 in writing, 10 in reading, 10 in listening and 17 in speaking
Cambridge: 176 with no less than 162 in each component
Portfolio and interview
Interviews normally take place in person but temporarily from March 2020, we'll ask you to submit an online portfolio, alongside a 500-word proposal for a potential project.
Your portfolio, together with the project proposal, enables us to assess your abilities to carry out your chosen project. It should include selected examples of work from projects you have carried out, accompanied by examples of visual research and development work. It can include brief explanatory notes and relevant diagrams, notes, rough sketches, models and mock-ups you used.
Please note that your portfolio does not need to include work that relates directly to the project proposal you are submitting for your application. It is designed to give us information on how you approach your work to help us assess your potential
Project proposal
You are required to write a 500-word project proposal to accompany your application form. This is a provisional proposal as an example of your thinking. If accepted, you would have the opportunity to develop and change this by agreement with your tutors.
The following headings are suggested as a guide to writing your proposal:
the topic or theme of your project
the aims of your project
the form your project might take and the main materials you are likely to use
a very brief description of what the project might involve
possible technical requirements or methods that you might use
any other information you think is relevant
Learn to think about your craft in new ways, understand research as a craftsperson and become expert in your chosen practice and profession.
On this specialist MA you will develop both your creative skills and your ways of thinking, working with tutors who understand craft both as a profession and as personal expression. Module options can include extensive practical work with a wide range of materials including metal, ceramics, polymers, wood and more.
While focusing on the physical act of making, the Craft MA also covers the theory of craft, allowing practitioners to conceptualise and contextualise their practice with deeper insight. The history, theory and traditions of craft form a core component in every module, and are delivered through lectures, presentations and studio discussion groups.
You will learn from experienced professionals in a welcoming atmosphere that allows craftspeople to discuss and develop their ideas as a community.
Our MA strives to help you towards exemplary creative output. Through exploration of the traditional discipline categories, to the evolution of future interpretations and directions, you will be encouraged to fully engage with what the craft scene is today
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Syllabus
While focusing on the physical act of making, the Craft MA also covers the theory of craft, allowing practitioners to conceptualise and contextualise their practice with deeper insight. The history, theory and traditions of craft form a core component in every module, and are delivered through lectures, presentations and studio discussion groups.
Craft Practice
This module provides a reflective and productive environment for you to create new and innovative approaches to combine theory, concept and practice through your own craft work. Together with your supervisors, you will formulate a written proposal to guide you towards your own working practice, while undertaking a set project to explore and identify audience and context.
Craft in Context
The Craft in Context module exposes you to contemporary craft debates, allowing you to explore and critically reflect on the process, context and definition of craft as a creative pursuit and investigative methodology. You will investigate how craft practice can relate to and affect cultural and social issues such as the environment, health and wellbeing, the economy, sustainability, ethics and education. You will test and challenge the value of your ideas within a wider social context.
Research Skills and Training
This module offers a broad-based introduction to research and introduces its relationship to your practice. The module seeks to place your own practice and academic work in context. A series of seminar/workshop sessions will introduce you to the range of key research methods and help you develop your own research plans.
Creative Enquiry
Through this practice-based module you will develop a personal portfolio of research – digital or conventional – to inform the creation of artefacts and/or products relevant to your own creative practice. You will be introduced to a range of creative research methods – notational, physiological and improvisational – which will critically challenge and further develop your current practice.
Masters project
The masters project represents the synthesis and culmination of the modules taken on the programme. You will undertake a rigorous investigation into your personally defined area of craft practice, with the final body of work realised through three-dimensional artefacts, objects or other related forms.
Your work will be defined and structured through the personal research statement and plan, which you will develop together with a member of staff. This process of informed individual authorship and ownership enables you, as a creative practitioner, to move forward and pioneer distinctive territories of expertise and insight.
Options
You will be able to choose from a range of modules from across our arts and humanities courses. Options include:
Sustainable Design Presents
Political Economy of Globalisation
Professional Entrepreneurial Development
Fine Art: Mentoring
Historical and Critical Studies Dissertation
Professional Entrepreneurial Development
Professional Experience with Industrial Placement
After completing the course successfully, you will be able – as a master of your craft – to take opportunities across the craft professions, either in your own practice as an entrepreneur or in the use of craft for social and community engagement. Craftspeople find these opportunities in a range of fields including fine arts, design, museum curation, teaching, prop making and interior design. The course also provides a route into academia, teaching and research.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
