MA Contemporary Crafts

at Hereford College of Arts

Stage 1  
 

Post Graduate Certificate
 

This Postgraduate Certificate is the diagnostic stage of the programme.
 

Your initial purpose or suggested area of inquiry is developed through contextualising research and experimental visual assignments. You can choose to broaden and deepen your knowledge in the subject of first degree, or investigate an associated area.
 

You will amass new study skills in research methodology, and use critical and creative practice to achieve Postgraduate Certificate objectives.

Stage 2
 

Post Graduate Diploma
 

This is the applied research and development stage of the programme. You’ll be expected to develop advanced skills of enquiry in your specialist discipline, or obtain new interdisciplinary skills in the furtherance of a generalist approach.  You’ll also consider the entrepreneurial, business and professional skills that underpin your specialist field of practice.
 

Consolidating at the end of the Postgraduate Diploma, you will have positioned your individual study area ready for evaluation for the final stage of MA.

Stage 3
 

MA is the advancement of individual practice.  This is the consolidation and outcome of the programme.
 

Your proposal from the Postgraduate Diploma is progressed and substantiated by critical analysis and contextualising evaluation. You’ll be expected to use advanced knowledge and skills and demonstrate your understanding by conducting a complex enquiry in both theory and practice.  You will be required to use sophisticated critical judgement and visual discrimination to achieve MA objectives.

• Applicants should have an personal understanding of their particular discipline and be able to demonstrate their ability to sustain research at MA level.
• Applicants should be (or about to become) graduates. Preference will be given to good honours graduates although exceptional applicants from a non-academic background will also be considered.
• Professional makers, designers, photographers, craftspeople and fine artists who wish to reposition their practice may also qualify.
• Applicants should submit a short proposal of up to 500 words, detailing why they are applying to the programme of study, supported by a portfolio of current practice, which will form the basis of discussion within the interview.

Hereford College of Arts Tuition Fee

The tuition fee for 2022-23 for a full time Higher Education course has been set at £6,000.

The course fosters post graduates in their realisation of their individual creative ambitions and goals. The programme provides a platform for the building of skills and confidence to nurture and drive independence, creative engagement and critical awareness, essential elements of contemporary designer-maker and artist-maker identities.
 

Many post-graduate students on completion of the course establish themselves as ‘sole traders’ or creative professionals with portfolio careers. The broad range of transferable skills developed over the course allows graduate Master practitioners wide opportunities in the creative arts sector through consultancy, community arts, teaching and residencies whilst others want to further extend their research and practice by studying for a PhD.