MA Visual Communication at University for the Creative Arts

Become a cultural innovator who can use your work to entertain, inform and persuade on our MA in Visual Communication. You’ll learn to approach design as an agent of change – a strategy for positively transforming behaviours in desirable and sustainable ways. You’ll explore the ways in which you can convey messages and meaning through a diverse range of media - from print and motion to digital - and you’ll be encouraged to develop new skills to strengthen and inform your design practice. Taught at UCA Canterbury.

Duration: 1 year full-time  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Farnham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

MA Visual Communication course at UCA Canterbury is designed to prepare students for professional practice and academic careers. You will enter the professional world with a confident design voice and an outstanding body of work. The course is front-loaded with skills workshops in areas such as printmaking (inc. screen printing/letterpress etc.), digital print, digital motion design, desktop publishing, web and app design.

Career pathways

Graduates of this exciting course will have had the opportunity to take their design work to the next level and might continue to develop their talents in a variety of different roles. These might include: Creative director, Typographer, Graphic designer, Digital producer, Copywriter, Exhibition designer.

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