Master of Arts - Illustration

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

With an MA in Illustration from UCA, you may push your limits, challenge yourself, and discover your niche as a flexible practitioner in the field of modern illustration.

This course, which is taught at our Farnham location, examines the illustrated story. The field of contemporary illustration has expanded to include a wide range of possibilities for both image-makers and storytellers. There are new and exciting chances for the enterprising illustrator to make their mark as a result of the expansion of online digital cultures and the development of digital image creation for conventional image-making.

Working with like-minded creatives in a stimulating atmosphere, you'll explore every aspect of illustration within practise and context. We'll provide you with the resources and encouragement you need to carry out your independent research and create a body of work that is authentic to you and has a significant influence on the illustration community.

Visiting professors and practitioners will support and enlighten your professional development by challenging you to think critically and raise issues as your practise develops.

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.

Research Methods: Practice and Context

By considering the many history, practise, function, theories, and consumer practises related to illustration, this serves as the basis of your developing postgraduate studies. You will be able to use suitable research techniques in support of your creative development and critically examine and reflect on your creative practise.

Exploratory Illustration Practice

In this unit's self-directed practise section, you'll identify and create your own personal justifications and working procedures.

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.

Illustration Practice and Development

You will further develop and examine your practise in this unit in response to the project proposal you are currently working on. The research topics you posed and looked into in the Exploratory Illustration Practice course should be the foundation for the work you do in this unit. Over a protracted period of self-directed research, you'll keep assessing and testing the objectives of your plan. The investigation, creation, and improvement of unique working methods and techniques are encouraged by this unit.

Illustration: Collaborative Practice

In order to assess and reflect on the evolution of your creative practise and proposal in relation to prospective areas of collaboration and dissemination, this unit offers a framework.

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.

Illustration Final Project: Realisation and Dissemination

Actualization and dissemination of the illustration final project
It should be a completed piece or body of work that demonstrates evidence of advanced conceptual, theoretical, and technical capabilities during a sustained period of self-directed study. This is the pinnacle and consolidation of your studies.

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.