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MA TextilesUCA Farnham1 year full-time | 2 years part-timewww.ucreative.ac.uk/ma-textilesThis course is constructed around thedevelopment of individual research intotextile culture, craft and design, allowingyou to combine previous experience oftextiles practice with a personal project.You are encouraged and supported throughthe process of exploration, interrogation,transformation and resolution. You questionyour own conventions of making; challengeyour own assumptions about your work;innovate with materials, processes,techniques and ideas; and emerge from thepostgraduate experience with a renewedsense of personal vision.The course team are practising researchers,involved in a range of textile practices,exhibiting and publishing internationally.You benefit from our links with establishedartists, designers, studio workshops andgalleries. The Craft Study Centre, a purposebuiltmuseum, research centre and galleryfor the crafts is based at UCA Farnham.Stage 1Plan your exploratory projectwhilst developing research,communication andpresentation methods.Stage 2Introduces a professionalcontext for your research.You also complete a reflectiveproject that includesprofessional practice and awork placement opportunity.Stage 3Your final project representsthe culmination of your studiesand forms an exposition of thecentral ideas and concepts youhave developed throughoutthe course. You have theoption to resolve your projectas practice-based work or adissertation or a combinationof both.“The opportunity to have discussions and feedbackwith visiting practitioners from the wider world oftextile arts was invaluable.”Louise AndersonMA Textiles44University for the Creative Arts | Postgraduate prospectus 2012