Courses
MA Design: Ceramics
The MA Design Ceramics course at Bath Spa University aims to develop individual abilities within the subject through practice and theoretical study in a department with high quality specialist facilities both in digital and craft based technologies.
The course is distinctive in offering the opportunity to specialise in ceramics as a medium allied to a breadth of possibilities, and establishing a negotiated individual mode of practice. Approaches range from sculpture and installation through to studio ceramics and design for products.
Theoretical elements are delivered alongside practical work using relevant research methodologies. In this way practice is firmly based in the theoretical and critical awareness of its context and potential market.
Course delivery includes seminars, lectures, tutorials, visiting speakers, group critiques and individual research using workshops, museums and libraries.
Students are expected to create a body of work and mode of operation that contributes to national and international definitions of contemporary ceramics practice.
Distance Learning Version
From September 2006-7 students have the opportunity to take some or all of the modules on this course via computer-based distance learning. This approach uses the university's Minerva Virtual Learning Environment (VLE); a simple-to-use system that can be accessed from home using a standard web browser. Students learn through a combination of lecture materials, group seminars and individual tutorials, all delivered online.
The diet of modules that students receive on the VLE route is identical to that on the campus based route described above. Students receive 'lectures' during the teaching semester, together with opportunities to take part in online seminar discussions with their peer group and with tutors. Students are also provided with online tutorials and with supplementary materials such as bibliographies, reading and illustrations to support studies. The exact pattern of activities varies from module to module, and is described and explained in a handbook that accompanies each of them.
In addition to learning via VLE, students attend the university for study visits (typically, once per semester) where they have the opportunity to meet other students and their tutors face-to-face.
The Department is part of School of Art & Design which provides a stimulating community of activity and research across the disciplines and also offers both practice and theory based PhDs.
For further information about this course, please visit the prospectus pages for this course within the main Bath Spa University website. To return press the back button.