MA Communication Design*

<p>The comprehensive Masters structure, which is shared across our specialist subjects, is a taught degree which enables a focus on creative strategies and processes through three sequential units which support you in investigating, testing and developing your ideas. The core tuition focuses on training, research methodology, critical thinking, design, practice-led research methods and professional and conceptual frameworks. All of our programmes have access to outstanding workshop facilities in the university.</p> <p dir="ltr">A unique component of our postgraduate curriculum is a programme of Research Intensives which invites all MA students to participate in short format, deep learning sessions in areas of creative expertise led by the university’s research-active staff and external specialists. These Research Intensives enrich subject-specific study with adjacent practices, cultural theories, and creative methodologies that will challenge historical assumptions of your subject and inspire innovative, cross-disciplinary approaches, giving you the opportunity to lead your discipline with original insights. </p> <p dir="ltr">You will be supported in your MA study by a Subject Tutor who is a specialist in your chosen discipline, to provide a consistent touchstone for the critical development and formal progression of your creative or theoretical work. In addition to your Subject Tutor, you will have ongoing tutorials, critiques, and discipline-specific seminars taught by other members of the postgraduate faculty who lead the curriculum units. </p> <p dir="ltr">By combining learning units with specialist assignments and personal project proposals, you will be able to achieve depth and specialisation within your subject area, while at the same time develop a critical methodology through techniques that can be applied across the commercial, social and public sectors.</p> <p dir="ltr">All students are asked to submit an initial statement on application to the course. This sets out your ideas for the MA programme you have selected. Creative practice is about change and development, and this statement will form the starting point for a dialogue about your work and your study journey. <br /></p> <p>Take a look at the <strong>full course information</strong> within our <strong><a href="https://aup.lon1.digitaloceanspaces.com/production/files/courses/2025-MA-Course-Specs-and-Unit-Specs-CUF/Arts-University-Plymouth-Postgraduate-Unit-Specification-Forms-2024-25.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Unit Specification</a></strong> and our <strong><a href="https://aup.lon1.digitaloceanspaces.com/production/files/courses/2025-MA-Course-Specs-and-Unit-Specs-CUF/Arts-University-Plymouth-Postgraduate-Course-Specification-form-2024-25.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Course Specification</a></strong> documents.</p>