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Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Practice

Unitec Institute Of Technology

Auckland, New Zealand

Tuition Fee NZ$ 24,850
Country Rank-
Duration12 Months
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Program Overview

Programme overview

The Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Practice enables artists, designers, photographers, animators, educators, performers, directors, producers and other creative thinkers to advance their professional careers within Unitec’s Creative Industries cultural hub.

In the first semester, a combination of taught, negotiated or studio courses allow you to tailor the learning experience to your specialist creative research interests, whether these fall into traditional (graphic design, industrial design, photography, animation, visual arts, performance) or hybrid domains (service design, experience design, design for social innovation, performance or production design, transmedia, interdisciplinary practice).

Your second semester involves conceptualising, proposing and implementing advanced creative research. You will be supervised and mentored by academic staff and/or industry professionals. Creative projects may take place on campus or be integrated into a relevant workplace.

Highlights

Create a body of new work, improve your job opportunities, and refresh or re-orient your profession.
Develop critical self-reflection, creative thinking and research skills by taking your practice to an advanced level.
Work in an evolving multi-disciplinary environment where you will get exposure to a wide range of approaches, practices, and theories.
Improve your communication and project proposal skills through studio critiques and written components.
Learn from supervisors that include notable artists, designers, and educators.
Enhance your creative portfolio with a significant advanced research project.

Course Content
Courses and timetables

Compulsory courses

Level 8
- Creative Practice Project (ICIB8005)30 credits (0.25 EFTS)
  To critically analyse creative practice as both a process and an outcome. This course allows participants to devise and conduct a small creative practice based research project that demonstrates intellectual independence and analytical rigour within a framework of information and principles related to contemporary creative industry practice. This course is designed to enable participants to explore their creativity in a practice based learning environment.
- Creative Practice Project (Extended) (ICIB8007)60 credits (0.5 EFTS)
  To critically analyse creative practice as both a process and an outcome. This course allows participants to devise and conduct an extended creative practice based research project that demonstrates intellectual independence and analytical rigour within a framework of information and principles related to contemporary creative industry practice. This course is designed to enable participants to explore their creativity in a practice based learning environment.
- Comparative Critical Reading (ICIB8071)15 credits (0.125 EFTS) 15 credits (0.125 EFTS)
  To analyse critical and theoretical dimensions, key principles and approaches for a specialist area of creative arts practice through the comparative critical reading of selected texts (written word, oral presentations, creative works and researched essays, etc.). This course is designed to challenge existing ideas about creative practice by surveying the landscape of contemporary theory and to enable the positioning of those ideas into the students personal frame of practice.
Elective courses

Level 8
- Research in the Creative Industries (ICIB8072)15 credits (0.125 EFTS)
  To provide both a documentation and record of understanding of research methodological practice for collaborative creative arts practice, which incorporates a demonstrated understanding of the theories and methodologies of key practitioners/theorists associated with a specialist study area. This course is designed to enable students with a methodological foundation with which to design, implement, and analyse research projects in a variety of contexts.
- Negotiated Study (ICIB8906)15 credits (0.125 EFTS)
  To enable a student to pursue an individualised course of study of particular interest, and which is empathetic with the aims of the programme and will contribute to the graduate profile. The course content may comprise of an agreed selection of the Workshops, Seminars and Masterclasses offered as part of the Specialist Electives for this programme, or may contain other negotiated outcomes.
- Negotiated Study (Extended) (ICIB8907)30 credits (0.25 EFTS)
  To enable a learner to pursue an extended individualised course of study of particular interest, and which is empathetic with the aims of the programme and will contribute to the graduate profile. The course content may generally comprise of an agreed selection of the Workshops, Seminars and Masterclasses offered as part of the Specialist Electives for this programme, or may contain other negotiated outcomesTo analyse critical and theoretical dimensions, key principles and approaches for a specialist area of creative arts practice through the comparative critical reading of selected texts (written word, oral presentations, creative works and researched essays, etc.). This course is designed to challenge existing ideas about creative practice by surveying the landscape of contemporary theory and to enable the positioning of those ideas into the students personal frame of practice.
Entry Requirement
Admission requirements

To be admitted to this programme all applicants must be at least 16 years of age on the date of the programme’s commencement for the semester in which they wish to enrol and meet the following::

General Admission:
- A recognized Bachelor’s degree in the same or similar discipline, with merit achievement deemed to be an average grade of B- or higher in all Level 7 courses; or
- A professional qualification in a relevant discipline, recognized as being equivalent to merit achievement in a bachelor degree.
English Language Requirements
- 8 credits at NCEA Level 2 in English (4 in reading, 4 in writing)
- If English is not your first language, you’ll need one or more of the following:
  
  Achieved NCEA Level 3 and New Zealand University Entrance
  
  Provide evidence you satisfy our criteria for existing English proficiency
  
  Achieved at least one English proficiency outcome in the last two years
Don't meet the requirements? We also accept:
- Provide sufficient evidence to be eligible for special admission.
Fees & Scholarships
ANNUAL TUITION FEES

Domestic/NZ students

$7,700(NZD)

(Approximate fees only - includes GST but excludes the Compulsory Student Services Fee (CSSF) levy. Your final study costs depends on a number of factors including the courses you select to study)

International students

$24,850(NZD)

Save $2,500 (NZD) on your first year with the International Student Study Grant.
Career Prospect
CAREER OPTIONS/
- Artist
- Creative director
- Curator
- Digital artist
- Director
- Graphic designer
- Photographer
- Producer
- Visual artist
- Choreographer

Cost Of Studying At Unitec Institute Of Technology

Interest rates as low as 8.9% ^*

250K+

Students Assisted

800Cr+

Loan Amount Disbursed

5000+

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