Visual Communication Birmingham City University

Overview

What's covered in the course?

You'll be able to specialise by choosing one of 5 awards:

• MA Visual Communication

• MA Visual Communication (Photography)

• MA Visual Communication (Graphic Communication)

• MA Visual Communication (Illustration)

• MA Visual Communication (Film & Animation)

As a creative practitioner you are inspired to create and engage with industry alongside taught elements. 

Throughout the course you will have the chance to develop deep specialist knowledge in graphic communication, photography, illustration, film and animation, and research. 

The course provides an immersive and advanced learning experience for both advanced practitioners and recent graduates within the broad field of visual communication.

The Visual Communication programme is offered at Birmingham City University.

Our visual communication Master's course is designed to provide you with the best possible chance to further your skills and widen your knowledge of the communication arts and industries. The programme is rooted in practice, teaching you interdisciplinary design and research processes.

The variety of subjects covered within this degree allows you to receive guidance in forming a more specific interest for Master's level study. 

Whether you have a definitive subject in mind, or you have a broader interest in the study of visual communication, the programme is both interdisciplinary and specialist in approach, echoing the dynamic changes within its related industries.

As a school we have strong industry connections which include live partnerships and collaborative projects. We have ongoing dynamic dialogues with international players in the creative industries. 

These leading professionals have provided us with direct feedback, identifying our programmes as world-class models of creative education and fully supporting contemporary practice in an international context.

We have a continuously developing and progressive vision of employability. We feel that as a creative practitioner you will need to adapt and respond to the demands of industry.

Why Choose Us?

• The School of Visual Communication is one of the largest of its kind in the UK, with an international student body.
• Based in the Parkside Building, we offer outstanding facilities such as a Hollywood-standard MILO unit - one of only two owned by universities in Europe.
• Here at the School of Visual Communication, your knowledge will develop, you will be challenged and your creative practices will thrive. Graduates of our MA Visual Communication course have produced meaningful work that is ground breaking within the creative industries.
• You will enhance your research knowledge and skill with the chance to take on further study at PhD level.
• You will be supported by a high-profile group of practitioners, theorists, academics and professionals in the creative and cultural industries who will enable you to realise your potential.
• Our involvement with the visual arts, culture and institutions extends to staff and students exhibiting in major venues such as The REP, The Ikon Gallery, The Venice Biennale, The Hong Kong Design Institute and the Shanghai Biennale, and working in community-based art initiatives across the world.
• Our Masters graduates have located themselves across the globe, including Shanghai, Spain, Malaysia, London, Hong Kong, Birmingham, India, Kuwait, Thailand and Taiwan to name but a few. We are a truly global Master course.