Master of Arts - Glass

1 year: Duration

18,000 GBP: Price

Rolling admission: Start

Rolling admission: Deadline

Master: Degree

Campus: Format

Farnham / United Kingdom: Location

UCA - University for the Creative Arts: School

Program description

Our MA Glass course at UCA Farnham gives you the freedom, facilities, and inspiration to create the items you most want to produce, whether they are functional, whimsical, traditional, or cutting-edge.

With your own set of glassworking talents, you will enter this course prepared. You will build on this to completely realise your unique style through in-depth research, practical application, and theoretical investigation, putting you in a position to operate at the cutting edge of your industry.

This programme, which is taught alongside our MA Ceramics and MA Jewellery programmes, gives you the ability to gain information from outstanding specialised designers, artists, and craftspeople from other fields as well as from your instructors' expertise and experience.

Extensive workshops and equipment are available at our Farnham location to help your academic ambitions. The Crafts Study Centre, a specially constructed museum, research facility, and gallery devoted to crafts, is also located there.

You can choose the Integrated International Pre-Masters, a year-long preparatory programme of study to get you ready for your master's in the UK, improving your speaking and writing skills in English along with your specialty skills, research knowledge, and self-confidence.

Program structure

Term one

The University, its technical workshops, and other resources will be introduced to you. In the first term, you'll take part in a variety of lectures and seminars and begin to investigate your creative practise.

Theory and Analysis

This unit is all about pushing yourself and thinking about your practise. You can do this by practising critical reading, careful observation, handling items and craft artefacts, conducting contextual research related to your line of work, and thinking thoroughly about them.

Exploratory Practice

With the use of a questioning, analytical, and interrogative approach to your work, you will be able to evolve into a reflective practitioner by turning your practise into a type of inquiry.

Term two

You start working on your MA project during term two, analysing and testing the objectives of your proposal during an extended period of self-directed study.

Reflective Practice

One of the most crucial ideas for a creative practitioner is reflective practise. You can build your critical awareness and independently advance your practise thanks to it. The work done in this unit ought to start addressing the research topics you looked at in the lesson on exploratory practise. The work produced for this unit should be much more well-resolved and provide a coherent line of investigation using relevant materials, ideas, and a context that is well-stated. During this course, you'll also have the chance to finish a professional practise period.

Term three

You'll use the knowledge you learn through your research to produce a final body of work in the third term of the course.

Major Project

Your studies will come to a close with this, which will serve as an explanation of the key ideas and concepts that you've learned during the programme. Through demonstration of increased conceptual, theoretical, and technical skill over a prolonged period of self-directed study, it aims to show the resolution of prior project units.

Price

Fee for two semesters (1 year) is 18,000 GBP for international students

We have offer a range of scholarships and fee discounts.

Requirements for applicants

If you do not have qualifications from the United Kingdom, we will accept equivalent qualifications from your native country for admittance into our programs.

In addition to academic credentials, some of our courses require a portfolio of previous work.

For our Master's courses, we usually require that you have successful completion of your Bachelor's degree or equivalent from a recognised university.

English Language requirements for MA/MSc & MBA courses:

IELTS UKVI or Academic - Listening 5.5, Reading 5.5, Speaking 5.5, Writing 5.5, Total 6.5
Test of English as Foreign Language (TOEFL) iBT - Listening 17, Reading 18, Speaking 20, Writing 17, Total 90
Pearson Test of English (Academic) - Listening 59, Reading 59, Speaking 59, Writing 59, Total 59
Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) or Cambridge English Proficiency - Listening 162, Reading 162, Speaking 162, Writing 162, Total 176
Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English (ISE) - Listening Pass, Reading Pass, Speaking Pass, Writing Pass, Total ISE III
LanguageCert International ESOL SELT - Listening 38, Reading 38, Speaking 38, Writing 38, Total B2 Communicator High Pass

Portfolio requirements

We'll need to examine your written or graphic portfolio for these courses in order to review it. Once you've applied, we'll send you an invitation to submit your portfolio via your applicant portal; more details will be given at that time. This can also be arranged for you if you would prefer to evaluate your work with the Academic Team in person while on campus.

About the university

The UCA team firmly believes that creativity enhances the vitality, innovation, and humanity of global communities. That is why the university has been a fervent supporter of creative research and teaching for the past 160 years.

Architecture, crafts, fashion, graphic design, illustration, fine art, photography, film, media, the performing arts, and creative business are among areas of study offered by the university. Employers in the creative sector hold a high regard for this programs because of their excellent teaching standards.

We want to inspire people to use their creativity to drive change, overcome challenges and improve the lives of others.

So we’ve designed our university to be an inclusive, dynamic environment. Our campuses across Surrey and Kent, our Institute for Creative Innovation in Xiamen, China, and our homes within partner organisations such as the Maidstone Television Studios all have one thing in common: they are places to forge inspiring partnerships, make work with purpose and build real solutions to human problems across the globe – whether that’s as part of our vibrant teaching and research community, or as a student on one of our courses.