Master of Arts [M.A] [Art and Design - Fashion Design Futures] From Cardiff Metropolitan University

The focus of the group teaching and individual discussion will be determined in part by the make-up of the group but will always be placed upon providing the intellectual and creative tools and advice to enable individual students to strengthen and develop their own practice and intellectual enquiry strengths by situating them in a self-defined career strategy.

The Master of Art in Art and Design - Fashion Design Futures at Cardiff Metropolitan University at Cardiff Metropolitan University will cater for for students who wish to develop their academic and research knowledge from within the practical disciplines and wider academic fields of Fine Art and Design.Ê

Typically this might include teachers, aspiring artists or designers, aspiring academics, or recent graduates in Fine Art or Design who wish to further their professional practice. It will also cater for those students with first degrees outside Art & Design who wish to convert their career path by following a more theoretical route in Art and Design.Ê

The MA Art and Design is designed as a gateway to research or advanced experimental practice. Students taking the MA Art and Design will align with specific research and experimental practice pathways, led by academic staff with established practice careers and/or advanced scholarship and research.

Employability & Careers:

The MA Art and Design acts as a gateway to research or advanced experimental practice. It has an option for students to focus on research (by taking the initial formal PG Cert Research Skills module) or by taking an alternative creative practice route both leading towards potential future MPhil/PhD study. Students taking the MA Art and Design align with specific research and experimental practice pathways, led by academic staff with established practice careers and/or advanced scholarship and research.

The MA Art and Design programme is designed to enable students to achieve the attributes of greater flexibility, adaptability, and individual responsibility and autonomy as professional artists, designers or researchers. The MA Art and Design programme aims to develop increasing creativity, self-reliance, initiative, and the ability to perform in rapidly changing environments as well as increasing competence with research skills and methods which will make graduates highly employable as academics and or researchers or enable them to develop an active and sustained practice as artists or designers.

All students' are expected to complete a portable 'record of achievement' and use their PDP to support employability and life-long learning, normally in the form of a blog, that integrates opportunities for self-reflection in programmes in order to help them develop as effective and confident learners.