Program Overview

MA Art & Politics

Overview

Working from a materially diverse basis, this programme engages with a range of empirical, aesthetic, conceptual and material issues that traverse and exceed both 'art' and ‘politics’ to speak with our current contemporaneity.

Why Study MA Art & Politics at Goldsmiths

• Explore practices and issues related to our current contemporaneity in terms of public space, democracy, equality, participation, states of exception, collectivity, performance and justice.
• Examine a range of material practices and strategies which, in the encounter between art and politics, play out in numerous forms and very different kinds of social spaces.
• Develop frameworks and spaces that are mixed and mobile, and which can operate in trans-disciplinary settings.
• Investigate the potential of art, material practice and trans-disciplinarity in times of political and cultural crisis.
• Choose from a range of option modules that encourage you to work across areas of particular interest to you.

Length

• 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time

Fees

• Home - full-time: £12,150
• Home - part-time: £6,075
• International - full-time: £24,350

Department

• Politics and International Relations

What You'll Study

Compulsory Modules

Optional Modules

• You'll also choose optional modules totalling 60 credits from a list provided annually by the Department of Politics and International Relations and/or from any suitable MA-level modules provided by other departments at Goldsmiths.

Project Work

• You are required to undertake project-based work in accordance with your own political and aesthetic interests.
• The purpose of this project-work is to find ways of ‘doing’ politics which employ ‘artistic’ strategies and interventions in their realisation.
• Projects have a student-centred material focus, complementing the theoretical emphasis of core and optional modules, and will seek to raise awareness of particular issues and draw attention to their position in the public arena.

Assessment

• Assessment consists of coursework, extended essays, reports, presentations, practice-based projects or essays/logs, group projects, reflective essays, and seen and unseen written examinations.

Careers

• Our graduates come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and embark on highly contrasting career paths.
• These include careers in:
  • Curating (both independent and embedded)
  • Art practice (both collaborative and individual)
  • Journalism (radio, web and print journalism)
  • Performing arts
  • Central and local government
  • Work with NGOs (national and international)
  • Research (academic and professional)
  • Project development, administration and management

Skills

• Some of the skills you'll develop during the Masters include:
  • A critical engagement with the broad field of international studies
  • Communication skills
  • Research skills
  • Presentation skills

Entry Requirements

• You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject.
• You might also be considered for some programmes if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.

International Qualifications

• We accept a wide range of international qualifications.
• Find out more about the qualifications we accept from around the world.

English Language Requirements

• If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0 to study this programme.

Funding Opportunities

• Explore the Goldsmiths scholarships finder to find out what funding you may be eligible for.
• If you are a UK student you may be eligible for a postgraduate loan.

Additional Costs

• In addition to your tuition fees, you'll be responsible for any additional costs associated with your course, such as buying stationery and paying for photocopying.
• You can find out more about what you need to budget for on our study costs page.
• There may also be specific additional costs associated with your programme.
• Please check the programme specification for more information.