Postgraduate Pathway in Art

Why study this pathway programme?

• The University’s Faculty of Arts, Design and Media has been placed 151-200 in the world for Art and Design! (QS World University Rankings 2019 by Subject).
• Birmingham City University has a strong international outlook – with former graduates now working in Shanghai, Spain, Malaysia, London, Hong Kong, India, Kuwait, Thailand and Taiwan, to name but a few!
• Birmingham City School of Art is a Grade I listed Venetian Gothic building located next to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and just a five-minute walk from the Library of Birmingham.

Birmingham City University is #24 in the UK for Art (The Guardian, 2018)

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Stage 1: Pre-Masters

Portfolio requirements

You will need to submit a portfolio for an Art and Design programme if:

• you want to enrol onto a 2-semester art and design programme*
• you have no academic background in art and design
• you have a Level 5 qualification (such as an HND or a Dazhuan).

* Providing your academic grades meet our minimum entry requirements.

Modules

• Creative Practice*
  
• Critical Thinking for Postgraduate Study
  
• Interactive Learning Skills and Communication
  
• Research Methods for Postgraduate Study
  
• Final Project
  

*three semesters only

Birmingham City University Degree Pathways

• MA Art and Design: Interdisciplinary Practices
  
• MA Arts and Education Practices
  
• MA Fine Art
  
• MA Visual Communication
  
• MA Visual Communication (Film and Animation)
  
• MA Visual Communication (Graphic Communication)
  
• MA Visual Communication (Illustration)
  
• MA Visual Communication (Photography)

Special entry requirements

Students must submit a portfolio if they are entering the two-semester Art and Design programme. Students must also submit a portfolio if they do not have an academic qualification in Art and Design.

Important:

All students accessing the 3D workshops, plaster room, glass room, water-jet cutting room and the kiln room will need to wear safety footwear that has toe caps. Such footwear can be purchased from any safety footwear provider – including Sports Direct – and can be as cheap as £12. The shoes should be S1P and comply with EN 20345.

There is no long-term storage facility for personal items in the workshops, so students are advised to bring the safety footwear with them each day they are accessing the workshops.