The proliferation of information and data available today provides both challenges and opportunities for how we understand, navigate and communicate our complex world. It also places communication designers in a potentially influential role as interpreters, facilitators and activators of knowledge, truth and insight.

Communication is at the heart of how we construct and convey power, how we motivate and mobilise, and how we shape our societies, communities and identities. This course understands communication as deeply intertwined with complexity. It is an increasingly vital skill in empowering responses to our most pressing and complex challenges – without resorting to simplification.

MA Communicating Complexity is a creatively led communication design course in a world-leading graphic design Program. On this course you will be encouraged to advance experimental approaches to communication. Project briefs set in collaboration with a range of industries and sectors, as well as by your student cohort provide a springboard for creative and future-facing approaches. Course Learning Outcomes are referenced to UNESCO’s Learning objectives for achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Innovation in communication design is critical to even the most ambitious ideas and technologies as well as organisations seeking to make an impact at scale. By foregrounding complexity, this course encourages more inclusive, accessible, and culturally resonant inroads into the world’s challenges with the ambition to equip you with the ability to bring clarity, context, and criticality to engaging with and communicating complexity.

The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows:

An honours degree in any relevant field of design, humanities, or science

Or an equivalent EU/international qualification

IELTS level 6.5 or above, with at least 5.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking

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Admissions Option 2

Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.

Scholarships and Funding Option 2

Unit 2: Relational and Material Practices for Common Good

Unit 3: Knowledges, Publics & Innovations

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Tuition fees for Home students are £6,350

Tuition fees for International students are £14,665

This fee is correct for 2023/24 entry and is subject to change for 2024/25 entry.

Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.

Program Tuition Fees Option 2

The course is delivered extended full-time over 60 weeks across two years. MA Communicating Complexity is designed to allow students to study while also undertaking employment, independent creative and professional practice or caring responsibilities.

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Master

Design Studies

Media Design

Graphic Design

Communication Design

University of the Arts London (UAL) is ranked 2nd in the world for Art and Design according to the 2023 QS World University Rankings®, for the fifth year in a row. It has an international reputation in art, design, communication, fashion, media and performing arts. Home to a diverse body of 18,000 students from 130 countries, UAL has over 100 years’ history of teaching across its institutions – Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion, Wimbledon College of Arts and UAL Creative Computing Institute.

MA Communicating Complexity

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