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The University for the Creative Arts is now offering a number of scholarships on a competitive basis, for taught Masters (MA) students in the 2008/09 academic year.

Type of Award
Award of partial tuition fee waiver for Home/EU or Overseas MA (Taught) Postgraduate fees for the academic year 2008/09

Eligibility
Full or part-time Home/EU or Overseas postgraduate students studying on a taught masters course*

Students are not eligible for a fee-waiver scholarship if they are in receipt of one or more of the following:
Existing University for the Creative Arts Postgraduate Bursary or Scholarship
Externally awarded Postgraduate Bursary or Scholarship e.g. AHRC
Sponsorship or support for tuition fees by an employer or other organisation

Only one award per applicant is permitted

Eligibility Criteria

Academic merit and/or development potential

Value of Award

£1,200 (Full-Time) or £600 (Part-Time)

Duration of Award

One-year

Selection & Notification

All eligible students are invited to apply by using the scholarship application form

Nominations for a scholarship are made by Colleges

Colleges to confirm the award of a scholarship with their offer to Registry Services who will formally write to the applicant confirming the offer and amount of scholarship (fee waiver) to be deducted from the postgraduate fee

Timing of Award

All applications to be submitted by the end of September 2008.

* The following courses are not eligible for a fee-waiver scholarship:
Graduate Diploma in Architecture
Graduate Certificate in Contemporary Practice

MA Photography at Rochester enables you to explore and develop your photography in a dynamic hands-on learning environment. Through the course you will produce a body of photographic work as well as learn how photography has been used to comment upon social, political and personal agendas.

This course delivers a considered balance of support that develops practical skills and fosters diverse critical approaches to a high standard. This support is provided by internationally renowned staff in a department that encourages experimentation with facilities that allow for a range of working practices. These include state of the art digital technology, Hasselblad HD cameras, high-end digital printing, a full range of analogue equipment and darkrooms as well as specialist workshops on traditional techniques that provide new perspectives on contemporary practice. This balance enables you to establish yourself as rounded professional artists who can formulate ideas in a sophisticated framework whilst also being able to communicate these ideas to others, both visually and verbally. A distinctive feature of the course is an emphasis on publication, enabling you to find creative ways to disseminate your work beyond the academic context and into the public arena.

Applications are welcomed from those looking to work in a hands-on way, who are ready to experiment with alternative strategies and who are willing to challenge perspectives in photography.

IMPORTANT NOTICE – ELQs (Equivalent Level Qualifications)

Please note the following if you are intending to study for an equivalent or lower level qualification: In early September 2007, John Denham, the Secretary of State for the Department of Universities, Innovation and Skills (DIUS) directed the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to withdraw institutional funding for those studying for an equal or lower level qualification (ELQ).

This means that the university you attend will no longer get any subsidy for your fees because the government is going to stop paying for ELQs. At the moment, if you are from the UK or the EU, you pay much lower fees for university courses than someone from ‘overseas’. This is largely because the government, through block grants to universities, pays the difference.

Therefore, if you do already have the equivalent level qualification and are offered and accept a place you will be liable for full cost fees, as yet to be determined, but similar in level to overseas fees.

For further information on ELQs please see the HEFCE website

Note for Overseas Fees
International students from outside the EU pay tuition fees that cover the full cost of their course in the UK. You will be classified as an ‘overseas student’ if:
you have not been ordinarily resident in the UK/EU for the three years immediately prior to the beginning of the course;
for any part of the three years you have been resident in the UK/EU wholly or mainly for the purpose of full-time education;
you are not ‘settled’ in the UK/EU at a specified date before the start of your course (you are settled if you are ordinarily resident in the UK/EU and have no restrictions on the period that you may remain in the UK/EU)

Before offering you a place at the University, we have to be satisfied that you have the potential to complete the course to the required standard. For all courses we use the information you supply on your application form, such as formal academic qualifications and previous experience, to assess your suitability for study. We also use a confidential reference from a previous school or college, from an employer or from another person qualified to comment on your capabilities.

We use a range of methods to assess students’ suitability and courses vary in their particular approach. What is important is that you are well matched to your chosen area of study. Some courses like to interview applicants or use questionnaires as part of the selection process. For most courses, we require a portfolio of visual work to provide evidence of practical and visual ability appropriate to the course you are applying for.

International applicants should note that we will normally accept relevant and equivalent qualifications to those awarded in the UK. For many overseas applicants interviews may not be practical, or may be carried out locally in your own country on behalf of the course’s interviewing panel.

Mature students may apply on the strength of a portfolio and previous experience (or accredited prior learning).

This course is a lively mix of graphic design, illustration and multimedia that enables you to develop the theoretical, creative and technical skills essential to contemporary commercial practice. As well as developing analytical and cognitive skills, you also expand your business expertise.

The course combines core units for all students with options that allow you to address your career interests. In the first year you develop your research, craft and technical skills. The final year is made up of project options.

Many students progress directly to the BA (Hons) Graphic Media one year top up degree at UCA Maidstone on completion of the course, or to the final year of other Graphics degree courses at UCA.

This course offers a flexible programme of study across our degree courses in:
animation
digital screen arts
fine art
photography.

Preparing you for employment in a wide range of media and cultural industries. You are introduced to a variety of art and media concepts and processes, and develop skills in research and critical analysis.

By devising a pattern of study that reflects your individual interests, you are able to specialise in one practice area or pursue an interdisciplinary approach to your work. We encourage our students produce innovative work that challenges the limitations of traditional subject boundaries and engages critically with contemporary ideas.

Our specialist facilities from the four contributing courses include:
Stop motion studio
Two fully supported XSI studios
Sound production studio
Video and film rostrum studio
Drawn animation room
Animation base room
Extensive fine art studios
Printmaking studios.

Photography & Video at UCA Maidstone provides you with the opportunity to explore the ever changing relationship between the still and moving image in contemporary practice.

The course brings together a tailored set of units from Photography & Media Arts and Video Arts Production courses, allowing you to draw on their distinct identities and proven experience, towards the development of your own artistic voice. We encourage you to engage in experimental and conceptual work to develop an independent style and vision.

On this course you will explore techniques including:
16mm film
sound animation
electronic media
installation
digital video and photography
analogue
sound
performance

This course is designed for you to develop in-depth knowledge of contemporary photographic practice in the context of an expanding range of technologies and ideas, and be challenged to find imaginative solutions and innovative approaches.

In a vibrant collaborative environment you also explore moving image production, sound, text and electronic media. You are encouraged to develop your own individual practice, assisted by a team of staff dedicated to the highest standards. A solid technical skills base enables you to work confidently and attain your ambitions.

Live projects, exhibitions and the production of work for electronic and print publication will be central to your development. Your emerging practice is embedded within real world structures, histories and contexts, by exploring current issues in visual and critical theory. The course enables you to develop a sustainable creative practice with technical confidence and critical awareness.

This course has a distinguished history and offers you the opportunity to study photographic practice, theory and history in the broadest possible context. We have a strong teaching team of professional photographers and artists and our students graduate with a high level of professional and practical knowledge, as well as an understanding of photographic culture and history.

This course focuses on contemporary photographic art practice. Studying photography within a fine art context prepares our students for all types of future employment within the field of photography, both art-based and commercial practice.

The four year course includes a preparatory year (year 0) which enables you to gain and develop a range of skills in moving/still image and audio production and editing. The initial year also offers supports seminars, tutorials, specialist technical workshops and group critiques to help you to adapt to the student centred learning of degree level study. Once you have successfully completed this preparatory year you progress directly, without further interview or application onto the BA (Hons) Photography courses at UCA Farnham. You also have the option of progressing onto other courses in media and communications.

This course is an opportunity for you to establish an individual critical and creative practice in photography. You develop technical and professional skills in analogue and digital image-making, film based technologies, digital video and web authoring. You have access to our Digital Imaging Centre, which offers an extensive range of digital authoring and publishing options. Our lecturers are practising photographers and we offer a stimulating programme of lectures by visiting artists, writers, curators and commissioners.

Areas of study are:
Reflections On Realism
Representation & The Construction Of Identity
Contextualisation
Reality & Representation
Images Of Cultural Convention
Visual Strategy & Dialogues Of Dissent
Time Space & The Definition Of Experience
New Worlds – The Creation Of Metaphoric Space

In the first year you will work on a set building project which will include a website that features an archive of previous projects and live online
production diaries for the year. In the Spring the project will be based in the studio where there will be live web cams. This project is fairly high profile and is supported
companies such as Arri Lighting GB, DRS Construction, Hasselblad UK, CirroLite.