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Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Design

The Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Design provides a postgraduate pathway for mid-career practitioners, and graduates from a range of design disciplines and visual arts.

Quick Facts

Programme Code: AK1298
Level: 8
Points: 120
Duration: One year full time / Two years part time
Venue: City Campus / Off campus via distance learning
Start date: 4 March 2013
Application deadline: 1 December 2012

AUT encourages early application. There are limited places available. Late applications will be accepted if the programme is not full. Applicants will normally be selected on the basis of their level of academic achievement and may be required to attend a selection interview.

Entry requirements

  • Guidelines to entry
  • A proposal describing the proposed research project
  • A portfolio
  • Interview may be required

Specialist areas:

  • Digital Design (animation, moving image, gaming, web, post production and film)
  • Fashion and Textiles (knit, print, textile, fashion and costume design)
  • Graphics (typography, illustration, animation and short film, photography and graphic novel)
  • Product Design (product and furniture)
  • Spatial Design (interior, furniture, urbanism, performance, installation, moving image, digital environments, exhibition design and spatial theory)
  • Visual Arts (multimedia, painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance)

Structure

The Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Design facilitates sustained innovative and experimental art and design research practice. To achieve this goal, the programme provides students with research training, theoretical and technical background, practical experience in the conceptualisation and production of creative works. The postgraduate diploma provides a pathway into the thesis year of the Master of Art and Design.

Papers - 120 points in total
118111 Research Practice (Art and Design) (60)

118112 Research Contexts and Methods (Art and Design) (60)


Enrolment in papers is subject to meeting all requirements and availability of papers (not all papers listed above will be open for enrolment in a given year).    

Please contact the Programme Administrator, Champa De for programme information and availability of papers.

Last updated: 10 May 2012 10:15am

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