Postgraduate Certificate in Professional and Research Skills:Art & Design

The programme offers a comprehensive introduction to the range of methods,

strategies and debates that can apply to art and design professional practice

and research. It is built around the four key areas of: professional practice;

research methods; research design; and the criticality that is essential for the

generation of knowledge. The programme is ideal for artists and designers

who want to develop a research proposal or a professional intervention

project based on their practice.

The course runs annually from September to December. It is normally taught

on a Wednesday but can be taken via the University’s virtual learning

environment at any time in the academic year.

Practice-Based Masters and Professional Doctoratesfor Artists

Master of Fine Art (MFA)

This programme is designed to fit the requirements of contemporary

professional artists. The aim is to help students develop and strengthen their

existing practice within a critical academic context through a negotiated

programme of learning with the support of highly skilled staff and technicians.

Graduates of the MFA programme are well placed to continue to pursue a

career within the field of contemporary visual art.

Professional Doctorate: Art

The Professional Doctorate is a research degree programme, designed around

the concept of change agency, and is intended for professionals who wish to

make a step-change in the way their organization operates. The programme

is at the same level as a PhD, but it has a different objective. Whereas a PhD

makes a contribution to knowledge, the Professional Doctorate develops new

professional practice. As well as enabling professionals within organizations to

bring about change, the Professional Doctorate is also open to lone

practitioners who can contribute to professional practice through supervision

by a suitably qualified mentor.

The Professional Doctorate in Art is intended for professionals who wish to

create a step-change, for example, in the performance of art institutions, such

as museums, galleries and funding councils, or alternatively through art

practices as they intersect with or contribute to professional contexts, e.g.

benefits to a company from an artist-in-residence scheme can be the subject

of the study. Similarly, an artist’s own practice can be addressed through a

professional doctorate.

Practice-Based Masters and Professional Doctoratesfor Designers

Master of Design (MDes)

With emphasis on practice, the MDes is intended for those who have, and

wish to maintain, a career in any form of professional design practice. The

MDes provides an opportunity for advanced design study in the context of a

professional situation and to specialize in a particular area of design practice.

Typical career destinations include Professional Design Practice, Design

Enterprise, Design Management as well as careers in education and academia.

Master of Design (MDes) Samsung Art and Design Institute

The programme aims to cultivate, through practical projects, creative design

leaders with in-depth knowledge and strategic minds. Students are fostered

as talented individuals who will contribute to the design industry especially in

the areas of brand development, communication and user-centred design.

This can be addressed through product design, graphic communication,

architecture and fashion.

Professional Doctorate: Design

The Professional Doctorate is a research degree programme, designed around

the concept of change agency, and is intended for professionals who wish to

make a step-change in the way their organization operates. The programme is

at the same level as a PhD, but it has a different objective. Whereas a PhD

makes a contribution to knowledge, the Professional Doctorate develops new

professional practice. As well as enabling professionals within organizations to

bring about change, the Professional Doctorate is also open to lone

practitioners who can contribute to professional practice through supervision

by a suitably qualified mentor.

The Professional Doctorate in Design is intended for professionals who wish to

create a step-change in the performance of: design companies and

consultancies; design practices, as they intersect with or contribute to wider

professional or industrial contexts, e.g. through commissioner–client

relationships; or a designer’s own practice.

Professional Doctorate Ecological Building Practices

This award is intended for professionals who wish to create a step change in

the performance of: ecological and sustainable practice in the built and natural

environment professions, such as architecture, building and construction,

planning, development, engineering, surveying, biodiversity and ecology,

industrial production and manufacturing design; or other professions whose

work can or could relate specifically to an ecological or sustainable built and

natural environment.

Master of Arts (Cardiff School of Art & Design)

CSAD’s MA aims to help students develop their practical and theoretical

interests in relation to a body of creative work that is important in a

contemporary context. To do this, students:

► formulate an original project that extends the student’s knowledge and

understanding of their field.

► reflect on the knowledge, skills and understanding that are needed in

order to further this body of work.

► familiarize themselves with a range of contemporary research positions

and become involved in debate and discussion at an advanced level.

Toward the end of the course, produce a high-level final exhibition of

professional practice that synthesizes the knowledge, skills and understanding

acquired on the programme.

The MA is available in the following areas:

► Art & Science

► Artist Designer Maker

► Communication

► Death & Visual Culture

► Ecologies

► Fine Art

► Illustration

► Philosophy

► Photographic Practice

► Product Design

► Textiles.

Advanced Postgraduate Studies at Cardiff School of Art & Design

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Advanced Postgraduate Studies at Cardiff School of Art & Design At Cardiff School of Art & Design, we believe in being at the top of our game and that includes beingable to deliver postgraduate programmes that really make a difference. We give our postgraduatestudents every opportunity to explore all kinds of creative and professional possibilities, in anenvironment that recognizes the importance of taking risks and seizing the initiative.

Our awards have been designed to give real opportunities for post-graduate students to explore their disciplines through

their own practice, employing challenging ideas that will enable a significant step forward. You design your own project

and we back you in the fulfillment of your intellectual, professional or artistic aspirations.

We are situated in the real world and recognize the roles that architects, artists, makers and designers can play. We are

especially committed to equipping all of our postgraduates with the courage and skills needed in a world where they will

have much to offer.

All of this happens in one of Europe’s most vibrant capital cities, where culture and the arts are extraordinarily lively and

the mountains and sea close at hand. It’s a city of architects, designers, makers and artists. It’s also a city of sport and

entertainment, not to mention Dr Who and Sherlock.

We look forward to meeting you and to welcoming you further to Cardiff School of Art & Design.

Professor Gaynor Kavanagh DPhil MPhil FMA

Dean, Cardiff School of Art & Design

www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/csad

Masters In Ceramics and in Advanced Product Design

MA Ceramics

The MA Ceramics programme is for individuals seeking to extend and develop

their practice as well as deepen their knowledge and understandings of the

subject, as future practitioners, researchers or academics.

The MA programme allows each student to:

► develop their authorship of advanced studio work

► be analytically rigorous

► develop a greater capacity for reflection

Students are encouraged to challenge norms and question conventions,

through fusing materiality and concept. This approach is underpinned by a

critical and historical approach discourse - a critical language for the both and

fine and applied art and design.

MSc Advanced Product Design

This one-year taught course is primarily aimed at design graduates who wish

to enhance their skills and knowledge of cutting edge product design practice.

It aims to produce successful individuals who can:

► understand the whole of the professional design development process

and how the initial phases flow to inform the latter stages.

► appreciate commercial realities and the designer’s role in business.

► design desirable products for bespoke, batch or mass manufacture.

► understand sustainability, inclusivity, and important ethical and social

issues.

Research Degrees: MPhil and PhD

The awards of MPhil and PhD are achieved through a sustained piece of

original investigative research leading to a thesis which can be theoretical or

practice-based.

The School welcomes research degree applications in the following fields: art,

design, design technologies, and the history and theory of art and design. It is

also keen to promote interdisciplinary research between art and design and

other fields of practice or enquiry.

Further Information

All Masters courses are one year full-time and two years part-time.

Entry Requirements: Applicants should have a good Honours degree (or

equivalent) in a field relevant to their proposed course of studies. We also

recognize the value of prior learning and experience within related fields.

csadpostgradstudies@cardiffmet.ac.uk for more information.

Master of Philosophy (MPhil) is 1-2 years full-time or 2-5 years part-time

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is 3-4 years full time or 4-7 years part time.

csadresdegrees@cardiffmet.ac.uk for more information

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► BA (Hons) Textiles

► BA (Hons) Graphic Communication

► BA (Hons) Illustration

► BA (Hons) Product Design

► BSc (Hons) Product Design

► BA (Hons) Photographic Practice

(Bridgend)

Taught Postgraduate

► Postgraduate Certificate in

Professional & Research Skills: Art

& Design

► Master of Fine Art (MFA)

► Master of Design (MDes)

► Master of Design (MDes) SADI

► MA (Cardiff School of Art & Design)

• Art & Science

• Artist Designer Maker

• Communication

• Death & Visual Culture

• Ecologies

• Fine Art

• Illustration

• Philosophy

• Photographic Practice

• Product Design

• Textiles

Undergraduate

► Cardiff Diploma in Foundation

Studies (Art & Design) (Bridgend) -

allied programme only

► Foundation Degree in Applied Art

& Design (Bridgend)

► Foundation Degree in Ceramics

(Cardiff and The Vale College).

► Foundation Degree in Contemporary

Textiles Practice (Cardiff and The

Vale College).

► Foundation Degree in Graphic

Communication (Cardiff and The

Vale College)

► Foundation Degree in Sustainable

Building Practice (Bridgend,

Pembrokeshire, Llandrillo College, &

Coleg Powys)

► HNC Building Technology and

Management (Ystrad Mynach)

► HND Architectural Design &

Technology

► BSc (Hons) Architectural Design &

Technology

► BA (Hons) Artist Designer: Maker

► BA (Hons) Fine Art

► BA (Hons) Ceramics

► MA Ceramics

► MSc Advanced Product Design

Doctorates and Research Degrees

► MPhil

► PhD

► Professional Doctorate in Art

► Professional Doctorate in Design

► Professional Doctorate in Ecological

Building Practices