The Arts University College at Bournemouth
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The Arts University College at Bournemouth has developed into one of the leading specialist education institutions in Europe focusing exclusively upon contemporary arts, design and media. Such providers are widely recognised as offering the best education in arts and design, and the University College believes that in such environments the most creative and ground breaking work is produced.
The University College remains passionate about its subjects and continues to encourage curiosity, risk-taking and adventure in exploring and pushing subject knowledge and its boundaries, providing students with a well resourced environment in which to practise to the highest professional standards.
Postgraduate Programme
The University College has an excellent reputation in the creative industries and many of its specialist courses are considered to be among the best in the country. The postgraduate courses are taught by a team of truly committed expert lecturers who continue to push the boundaries of their specialist fields. The MA course acknowledges that practice, in whatever form, is the basis for study on each pathway. At the heart of the course is an exploration of the relationship between specialism, critical theory and discourse, allowing the exploration of a discipline outside its traditional boundaries. Students from each discipline study together creating the potential for innovation and the collaboration of ideas and research methods.
MA Pathways
MA: Animation
The Animation pathway seeks to explore and develop creative and critical practice within the Animation field. The emphasis is on MA students building upon the foundations of their own existing portfolio of work (produced during undergraduate studies, or past professional work). The pathway focuses on integrating practice with the emerging and exciting critical, historical and theoretical currents in Animation Studies. Areas of expertise within Animation include a range of expert practitioners in traditional drawn and computer animation, as well as a designated specialist in animation theory and history.
MA: Contemporary Performance
The Contemporary Performance pathway offers the opportunity to focus on theoretical and practical approaches to this discipline, to explore a broad range of methodologies, and to strengthen individual performance-making skills. The pathway will appeal to students who are inspired by engagement with a diverse range of performance possibilities including live art, digital, post-text, and radical theatre practice and who are stimulated by the potential to work with other students on cross-disciplinary collaborations, supported by the specialist facilities of the University College. Graduates from an arts background interested in becoming part of the next generation of International contemporary performance artists, theorists, critics, or dramaturgs will be encouraged to develop their understanding of professional practice through the exploration and interrogation of themes such as audience, staging, and identity, in relation to the delivery of live and mediated performance. Study will culminate in the creation of a body of work and/or performance outcome which will demonstrate students' greater understanding of the subject discipline, and their engagement with the delivery of unique, engaging, and relevant artistic work for specific audiences.
MA: Costume
The Costume pathway supports and develops advanced practitioners who have ambition to explore, challenge and redefine the roles and relationships between costume and 'audience'. The MA student will, through research, scholarship, conceptual enquiry and the making of work, strive toward innovative solutions to complex and individual creative proposals which are the central focus for their personal and artistic development. Research specialisms include live art practice as well as academic, theoretical and critical emphases. The pathway is supported by lectures and seminars in areas of performance to enable students to critically reflect on (and to consider their place of practice within) the discipline. Seminar discussion will invite critique of students' own work and that of other advanced practitioners. Areas of expertise within the course team focus on: world performance and the interaction of East and West in theatrical cultures and stereotypes, examination of the boundaries of design across disciplines, post-modern opera, experimental dance and abstract performance art.
MA: Fine Art
The Fine Art pathway supports emerging artists who are eager to explore and confront their practice in the endeavor to redefine their position in relation to contemporary art. The MA student is engaged in focusing on the context for practice, where it is aligned with other specialisms and the importance of process and material. Ideas are generated through research, scholarly activity and conceptual enquiry and brought to realisation in an individual body of work that is tested in the public domain. Audience and space are two major factors considered in the process of making work. Students engage with one another in the practice and research of art. Discussion and presentation of ideas and the examination of outcomes form the basis for learning. Areas of expertise within the course team focus on the transformation of materials in the pursuit of meaning, drawing, renewal of painting, the objectness of sculpture, installation and space, performance, video, the document, photography and new media.
MA: Graphic Design
The Graphic Design pathway encourages designers to explore ways to develop understanding between co-communicators, through systematically interrogating design practice, and by generating alternative visual solutions.
MA students enquire into ways that users make meaning from graphic design in order to take into consideration a range of factors (such as materiality and site) that potentially contribute to communication processes. Students seek to anticipate the possible consequences of their design interventions, including the meanings constructed through their practice, in relation to ethical and
sustainability issues as well as to other relevant contexts. Creative approaches are required that respond to complex situations in which many problems reside. Methodologies are therefore developed on the course that identify particular research foci; where practice is supported by relevant lines of enquiry, research methods, and appropriate theoretical frameworks. Outcomes are not constrained by media or by limited interpretations of what it is to be a graphic designer. Consequently an outcome might involve the design of an experience or service, as much as it might concern more conventional forms of graphic production.
MA: Illustration
The Illustration pathway encourages practitioners to question the nature of their own practice, its context and place within the creative industries and beyond. The pathway offers an expansive notion of illustration exploring the relationships between illustrator as author, audience/artifice, and site or context, and the contemporary blurring of boundaries across disciplines. Ideas will be researched and developed through specific individual approaches to practical research and reflective enquiry and applied using appropriate media and techniques. The pathway will appeal to students who are open to engagement with a diverse range of creative ideas and possibilities, from traditional illustration techniques including drawing and printmaking, to digital lens-based and time-based media, exhibition and performance.
MA: Interactive Media
The Interactive Media pathway supports advanced artists and designers who wish
to develop and refine their practice in and through a wide range of digital media. This pathway 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 this new-media world. This pathway provides the support necessary for such personal professional development: an informed critical environment, the use of professional creative design methodologies and exposure to industry-standard design and development processes. Areas of continuing interest that provide starting points for individual work include Future Cinema, Sensate Spaces, Interactive Narrative, Digital Post-Production and Web 2.0 Technology.
MA: Photography
The Photography pathway recognises and celebrates a photographic practice that is an increasingly demanding, diverse, complex, challenging and compelling experience. MA students engage in a practice within a resource that recognises the importance of antiquarian processes through to digital imaging and will have a curiosity about what these possibilities offer in the investigation and representation of social and cultural imperatives. Ideas are generated that provoke a wide diversity of outcomes which reflect demands on the meaning and position of photography in work that could be time-based, sculptural, site-specific, or which addresses issues raised by the document or other traditional means of representation. Practice is underpinned by history and theories; analytical, critical reflection that supports students in their consideration of the context; audience and professional relevance of their practice in an independent or commercially structured environment. The flexibility of this pathway reveals opportunities for applicants interested in the possibilities of interaction with other MA subject disciplines at the University College.
The Learning Experience
Students develop their individual practice which, in turn, informs and directs their research interests. Practice is regarded as a way of exploring and defining research and forms the basis from which the contextualisation of practice takes shape. The study is self-initiated and developed through the Study Plan, building upon the study proposal set out at interview. As students explore and interrogate their practice they are required to develop a body of work and to present their ideas, outcomes and related research in seminars. Each student is required to develop and maintain a Professional Development Portfolio.
Resources
Postgraduate Centre
This dedicated area comprises a reading room (which acts as a base for all Postgraduate students) and an adjacent seminar room. It is based within the Library and has a number of facilities including multi-media audio-visual equipment and wi-fi access.
University College Facilities
In addition to the Library and other areas, Postgraduate students may access the extensive equipment and facilities available to University College students across all areas of study; this includes film and photographic equipment, multi-media technology and workshops supervised by skilled technicians.
Location
The University College is situated between Bournemouth and Poole in Dorset on the South Coast of England. Dorset is a county of outstanding natural beauty, providing a unique location for creative work and boasts miles of sandy beaches, the rolling Purbeck Hills, Poole Harbour and opportunity for a wealth of recreational activities. London is less than two hours away and is easily reached by regular train and coach services or via good motorway links. Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam are within the same journey time using scheduled services from Bournemouth and Southampton international airports. There are regular sea crossings to the Continent from Poole and Southampton.
Entry Requirements
BA (Hons) in Arts, Design or Media (2:1 or above) Applicants will usually have a 2.1 or equivalent undergraduate level but, most importantly, will be interested in experimentation and innovative practice within a structured framework leading to Masters outcomes. This is a taught Masters award and candidates will need to be available for all of the taught sessions as the inter-disciplinary nature of the enquiries is an integral aspect of the programme. Applicants who are interested in graduate teaching assistant posts may also be considered, subject to their expertise and previous experience. Applicants with other than the required academic qualifications may be considered for entry if there is sufficient evidence to indicate that they have the potential to fulfill the objectives of the course of study and to achieve the standard of the final award.
Overseas Applicants
For non-UK applicants, please refer to our International Office. Contact +44 (0)1202 363233 or email international@aucb.ac.uk or http://www.aucb.ac.uk/international/welcome.aspx. Applicants whose first language is not English should have an IELTS score of 6.5 or higher.
Contact Details
For further information, please visit, http://www.aucb.ac.uk/default.aspx
For general enquiries please contact:
Astrid MacKellar
t: 01202 363384
e: amackellar@aucb.ac.uk
International students please contact:
t: + 44 (0)1202 363233
f: + 44 (0)1202 537729
e: international@aucb.ac.uk
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Poole
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