Entry requirementsYou will normally have an Honours degree in an art or design discipline, but if you are visually literate, you will be considered on your merits. All applicants must demonstrate experience or knowledge of hybrid new media in convergent arts-related activities, and a capacity for critical thinking and writing. Overseas students should submit a portfolio of artwork or slides with their application.
Academic titleMedia Arts Master in Arts
Course descriptionDesigned from our successful Design and Digital Media MA, this course will provide you with the opportunity to explore and develop the creative possibilities of art in new media contexts. Course content includes visual language, animation, a research module and an additional major project module required for completion of the MA degree.
Future prospects
The course from which the Media Arts MA derives has an excellent record of preparing students for employment. Graduates are currently working in such areas as new media, digital video, digital imaging, animation and experimental research. Students enrolled for the Media Arts MA will have the option of changing to the Design and Digital Media MA at the Postgraduate Certificate stage of the course.
Course content
The course may be taken either full-time over 12 months or part-time over 24 months. In its part-time mode with one day spent at the University each week the course is particularly suited to working artists, teachers and other professionals who wish to develop their knowledge of media arts and emergent creative technologies. It will also help you extend your skills in fields that utilise experimental art and visual languages for hybrid forms of publishing/exhibiting/delivery.