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The Bachelor of Art and Design (Honours) is mainly aimed at high-achieving bachelor’s degree students who want to advance their skills and make their CV stand out. It can also serve as a pathway to advanced research at master’s or doctoral level.

You can specialise in one of these areas:

• Communication design (typography, illustration, animation and short film, photography and graphic novel)

• Digital design (animation, moving image, gaming, web, post-production and film)

• Fashion and textile design (knit, print, textile, fashion and costume design)

• Product design (product and furniture)

• Spatial design (interior, furniture, urbanism, performance, installation, moving image, digital environments, exhibition design and spatial theory)

• Visual arts (painting, print, photography, sculpture, drawing, moving image, installation, sound and performance)

Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Design

The Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Design gives you a deeper understanding of innovative and experimental art, and design research practice. You undertake research training, explore the theoretical and technical background, and conceptualise and produce creative works. This programme is ideal for mid-career practitioners and graduates from a range of design disciplines and visual arts, and can be completed either on or off campus. It can also serve as a pathway into the thesis year of the Master of Art and Design.

Postgraduate Diploma in Performance and Media Arts

This Postgraduate Diploma in Performance and Media Arts enables you to expand the contexts of performance and media arts both consciously, and critically. You will see how performance can intersect and transgress time-based forms of art to ultimately widen your conceptions of art. Whether you’re already working in this area, or plan to, the programme offers you unique research and development opportunities through a cross-platform environment for live art. You use a collaborative and interdisciplinary model for practice-based research. The programme can also serve as a pathway into the thesis year of the Master of Performance and Media Arts.

Master of Art and Design

The Master of Art and Design is an interdisciplinary research degree for art and design graduates and creative professionals. While focusing on critical enquiry, cultural context and practice-led research, you also gain unique learning opportunities through practice-based research. The nature of the research you undertake in this programme helps foster a vital and innovative art and design community for you and your peers. This programme can be completed either on or off campus. On-campus candidates enjoy dedicated individual studio spaces, specialist facilities with extended access hours, and library and learning centre facilities. Off-campus students have regular weekly online sessions and weekend residences in Auckland. Those living outside Auckland are able to use the distance library service.

31 Master of Arts Management

The Master of Arts Management is designed to produce creative managers with expertise in business development, entrepreneurship, cultural management and creative practice. You will be well-equipped for a career in the creative industries as you develop a range of transferable skills in management, presentation and community development. This one-year degree also explores how creative industries fit in the wider cultural and economic context.

Master of Design

The Master of Design is a one-year degree aimed at developing innovative and strategic leadership for the design and business environment. The focus is on improving creativity and understanding about the design of products, environments, services and brands within market contexts. This involves user-centred design of products and services, and exploring how design thinking and the power of design can deliver new forms of value, experience and competitive advantage for business – as well as environmental sustainability. You will be exposed to a range of design research, and innovation methods and practices.

Master of Performance and Media Arts

Experimentation, reflection and collaboration are at the heart of the two-year Master of Performance and Media Arts. Whether you’re already working in this area, or plan to, this programme offers you unique research and development opportunities through a cross-platform environment for live art. You will use a collaborative and interdisciplinary model for practice-based research. You expand the contexts of performance and media arts both consciously, and critically. You explore how performance can intersect and transgress time-based forms of art to ultimately widen your conceptions of art.

Master of Philosophy

The Master of Philosophy is a one-year research only master’s degree. It gives you the opportunity to undertake a research project of an applied or professional nature, under the supervision of art and design staff. It can also serve as a pathway to more advanced research at doctoral level.

Doctor of Philosophy

The Doctor of Philosophy is a thesis-based research degree that leads to advanced academic and theoretical knowledge in a specialist area. The programme enables you to make an original contribution to knowledge or understanding in the field of art and design, and meet recognised international standards for such work. You work closely with a supervisor to prepare a thesis, which is then examined by independent experts applying contemporary international standards.

For more details visit www.aut.ac.nz/art-design/postgraduate or email [email protected]

the following categories: • NCEA University Entrance

• Ad Eundem Statum admission (at an equivalent level) – this includes Cambridge International Examinations (CIE)* and International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB) if taught in a New Zealand secondary school

• Discretionary Entrance • Special Admission

* Domestic students who study CIE in another country may be eligible for this admission depending on subjects covered and levels attained with the qualification. As requirements vary such students should seek advice from AUT.

specified admission requirements for a programme, such as specific subjects, portfolios, interviews and auditions. For more information on all admission categories and specific programme requirements please see the AUT Calendar or visitwww.aut.ac.nz/calendar

Please note: AUT, like all other New Zealand

universities, is required to manage enrolments. This is because of government policies that restrict the number of funded places available for domestic students in tertiary education.