MA Visual Communication

The Visual Communication MA at Birmingham City University is designed to develop your creative skills and boost your professional career in the visual communication field. This course will enable you to approach creative briefs from informed and innovative perspectives, make informed decisions about the most appropriate and effective methods of communication, and execute design-led solutions with modern innovative technologies.Course Content: The course is designed to be flexible, allowing you to follow your own path in visual communication. At all levels you will be encouraged to undertake research, supported through lectures and seminars with group and individual tutorials. The course is designed to facilitate analogue and digital skills, therefore workshop and software teaching is elective depending on your existing skills and future ambitions.Key Modules: The MA allows you to negotiate and formulate a methodological approach to problem-solving, offering ways of articulating personal responses to ideas, issues, scenarios within a defined context. Modules include: "Research Methods and Communication", "Content Form and Communication: User Experience", "Professional Speech and Behaviour", "Master’s Project", "Master’s Project: Communication Design Practice".Future Careers: Successful completion of the MA enhances your career prospects and could lead directly into higher level jobs within the Commercial and Industrial Design industries, and the creative industries in general. You could also progress into academia, teaching, or further study such as a PhD.For more information on this course, please visit the official course page.