Birmingham School of Art is based at the heart of the city centre, just round the corner from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Take a look at where you will be studying and the facilities available to you.
If you’re serious about working in the creative industries, Birmingham City University’s postgraduate degrees offer the specialist resources and opportunities needed to launch a successful career. Join a community of like-minded creatives to drive transformation and celebrate your individuality.
This course will help you develop your professional practice, contextual understanding and research skills. You will work across a range of mediums and processes, including:
Find out more: MA Art and Design: Interdisciplinary Practices
This MA, based in Birmingham School of Art, provides a unique platform for the art educator. During the course, you will explore the arts and their value as taught subjects, both within the institution and outside of it.
Find out more: MA Arts and Education Practices
This course is conceptual at heart, considering art in relation to philosophy, history and theory, contemporary discourse and global contexts. You will have the freedom to take risks and be driven by your imagination. Modules change to reflect contemporary practice and have included the following topics:
Find out more: MA Fine Art
This course is interdisciplinary in its approach, reflecting the dynamic practices within the creative industries. Enjoying an immersive learning experience, you can choose to specialise in one of the following areas:
Find out more: MA Visual Communication
You will develop advanced approaches to art and design techniques through the creative exploration of your ideas within a studio environment.
You will learn how to critically assess arguments and evidence from a range of academic sources, as well as gaining an understanding of effective critical reading at postgraduate level.
During this module, you will learn advanced skills in topics such as:
You will gain an understanding of research methods and methodologies for postgraduate study, as well as learning how to plan and undertake effective research at postgraduate level.
This module will equip you with the advanced skills you need to develop and shape your own creative practice through the production of a final project.
* Three-semester programme only
You must submit a good portfolio if you are entering the two-semester programme without a related academic subject.
All students accessing the 3D workshops, plaster room, glass room, water-jet cutting room and the kiln room will need to wear safety footwear with toe caps. Such footwear can be purchased from any safety footwear provider (e.g. Sports Direct) and can be as affordable as £12. The shoes should be S1P and comply with EN 20345.
There is no long-term storage facility for personal items in the workshops, so you will need to bring the safety footwear with you each day you are accessing the workshops.
Birmingham School of Art is based at the heart of the city centre, just round the corner from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Take a look at where you will be studying and the facilities available to you.