Arts University Bournemouth Masters Degrees

The MA Animation Production sees observation, drawing and an understanding of the traditional principles of animation as fundamental, but these are critically contextualised in relation to technology, history, theory and professional/studio practice. Read more

MA Digital Fashion Innovation encourages and supports designers to explore and work with advanced digital technologies, interrogate and question current fashion practice and challenge the ideals around how a product is realised. Read more

Our course is for ambitious and curious creatives who are seeking to learn through practice-based research (thinking through making). Read more

Start date: January 2024 Explore the creative depths of filmmaking and develop your own voice within it with this MA Film Practice from Arts University Bournemouth (AUB). Read more

MA Fine Art is an opportunity to look at the familiar with a fresh, perhaps oblique perspective in order to explore how “detour” permits “access”(Jullien 2004) to more subtle yet more complex interpretations. Read more

This course approaches all forms of graphic design as triggers for thinking and feeling. By interrogating your practice at the cognitive level, you’ll explore how such things as a metaphor, and the framing and blending of ideas, drive communication. Read more

MA Historical Costume  is designed to enable the student to follow their research interests at M level whether that interest lies in historical costume design for theatre or film, costume construction, or purely desk-based contextual study. Read more

Our MA Illustration course encourages you to question the nature of your practice and its context and position relative to the creative industries. Read more

Start date: January 2024 Make your mark in the exciting field of interior design with this MA Interior Design from Arts University Bournemouth (AUB). Read more

Painting defines its practice through the particularities of the painted field. The making materiality of the unique object, a globally acknowledged cultural history and the dedicated and dynamic relationship of the painted object to the painter. Read more

This course offers an exciting blend of art and commerce enabling advanced study in a wide range of genres including advertising, documentary, editorial, fashion, portrait through to fine art photography. Read more

You will follow a programme of study and independent learning which combine practical and theoretical approaches to maker cultures to offer a unique foundation for innovative research practices, and emphasises the knowledge and skills needed to prepare for doctoral level study. Read more