PgCert Fine Art at Robert Gordon University

Programme overview

PgCert is an exit award within the Fine Art course. Our MA programme provides a series of connected learning experiences, which are delivered through four modules. The Fine Art degree within the Programme enables you to develop the skills, critical understanding and specialist knowledge required to follow a rewarding career as an independent professional artist or to work within a related creative sector. This pathway provides a tailored learning environment that encourages and supports your creative development, independence in creativity, imagination and ideas.

Faculty: Gray's School of Art | Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

What you will study

The programme provides a series of connected learning experiences (3+1 modules), which critically challenge you to develop and reflect on your specialist disciplinary practice. You will be supported in identifying and acquiring the most appropriate research and practice based strategies for the development of your Fine Art creative practice. Critical Contextual Studies and Research Methods You will be introduced to a key set of research methods and thematic issues integral to the programme.

Career pathways

The MA Programme is designed to support you in further developing your subject-specific disciplinary expertise and skill sets to pursue a career in the creative and cultural sectors. On completion of the Fine Art pathway, you will have the experience to pursue a career as a professional artist or to work within a related role within the creative industries.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Applicants will normally hold a 2:2 undergraduate honours degree or above in a relevant subject. Applicants with a lower degree classification and/or relevant work experience will be considered on a case by case basis. As part of the application process, applicants will be contacted with a request to share examples of their creative work and explain their motivation and ambitions. Applicants may be offered the option to have an online meeting with the Course Team, or to provide a digital portfolio and project proposal. Once a preferred option has been indicated, more detailed guidance on the requirements and next steps will be provided. Applicants whose first language is not English should have an IELTS of 6.5 overall, with no component lower than 5.5, or an equivalent.

Apply through the official page: https://www.rgu.ac.uk/study/courses/pgcert-pgdip-ma-fine-art#apply

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