Goldsmiths, University of London
MA Children’s Literature : Children’s Book Illustration
London, United Kingdom
MA
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About : The MA Children’s Literature: Children’s Book Illustration program focuses on enhancing your understanding of children's literature while developing your illustration skills. This course offers a blend of theory and practice over a one-year full-time or two-year part-time study model. You'll explore narratives, characters, and graphical storytelling, surrounded by a supportive creative community.
Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue various roles in the industry such as children's book illustrator, graphic novelist, or art educator. Opportunities also exist in publishing, animation, and media production. This program prepares you for a fulfilling career connected to children's literature and illustration.
Immerse yourself in exploring professional and practical approaches to children’s book illustration.
Why study MA Children’s Literature: Children’s Book Illustration?
- Refine your practical illustration skills and ideas by working on projects that focus on materials and their combination, colour, tone, creating atmosphere, addressing the reader, and the relation of illustration to text. At the end of the programme you'll have the opportunity to exhibit your work.
- You won't only develop your practical skills. We draw on both professional and critical perspectives from art and education, cultural studies, design, and sociology to deliver a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the subject of illustration. We'll expect you to interrogate the power relations that determine what is published, distributed and selected to be read by children in schools.
- You'll study a bespoke module in children’s publishing that will help you with promoting your work and establishing dialogues with designers, editors and agents. You'll also have the chance to benefit from exposure to professional networks such as the Association of Illustrators, guest lectures from established illustrators and visits to illustration studios.
- You'll be taught by leading teaching staff, including established children’s authors and illustrators.