Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Practice

ART & DESIGN POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN CREATIVE PRACTICE

CREDITS 60 (0.5 EFTS) CAMPUS Mt Albert

Career opportunities

• Artist

• Art director

• Product designer • Graphic designer • Director

• Photographer • Experience designer • Producer

• Production designer • Sculptor • Visual artist • Performance designer • Service designer • Curator • Actor for theatre, film, and television • Choreographer • Filmmaker

Highlights

• Get specialist skills, enrich your future.

Refresh or reorient your career, create a body of new work and explore new job possibilities. • Develop advanced capabilities.

Enhance your creative thinking and research skills through applied practice, while focusing on an area you’re most passionate about. • Further develop critical interpersonal skills. Improve your communication and project proposal skills through studio/project critiques and written components. • Work and learn from the best.

You’ll be supported every step of the way by supervisors that include notable artists, designers and educators. • Expand your creative portfolio.

You’ll have the opportunity to undertake a small independent or collaborative project. • Upskill quickly. Take your creative career to new heights with one semester of focused study. START DATES February or July DURATION Six months full-time or one year part-time ANNUAL FEES $3,800 (NZD)

(Approximate domestic fees only. Includes GST but excludes the Compulsory Student Services Fee levy)

Take the first step in your postgraduate journey and improve your job opportunities, by delving deeper into your passion for creative arts, design or cultural expression through a small independent or collaborative project.

Highlights Cont.

• Progress to further postgraduate study. Graduates of this programme will be eligible to move into the Postgraduate

Diploma in Creative Practice.

Programme overview

This postgraduate certificate enables creative practitioners from all walks of life – artists, designers, photographers, actors, dancers, choreographers, directors or producers – to advance their professional careers.

Through a one-semester course of study, you’ll undertake a small independent or collaborative project, as well as negotiated studies aimed at helping you pursue an area of creative practice that you’re passionate about.

You’ll be guided and supervised by experts in the creative industries while completing a practice-based programme of learning tailored to your individual interests and experience.

We can facilitate postgraduate study in the following creative areas:

• Traditional: graphic design, industrial design, publication design, photography, animation, visual arts, dance, acting, performance • Hybrid: service design, experience design, design for social innovation, performance or production design, transmedia, interdisciplinary practice

Admission requirements

For this programme, you’ll need:

General admission

1. Be 16 years old by the start of your first semester 2. A recognised Bachelor’s degree in the same or similar discipline with merit achievement (grade average of B- or higher in all Level 7 courses); or 3. A professional qualification in a relevant discipline recognised as being equivalent to merit achievement in a

Bachelor’s degree.

Special admission

• Be 20 years old by the start of your first semester • Provide sufficient evidence of aptitude, appropriate work or other life experience that would indicate a successful outcome in the qualification.

English

• 8 credits at NCEA Level 2 in English (4 in reading, 4 in writing)

If English is not your first language, you’ll need one or more of the following:

• Achieved NCEA Level 3 and New Zealand

University Entrance

• Provide evidence that you satisfy our criteria for existing English proficiency

• Achieved at least one English proficiency outcome in the last two years

If you don’t meet the English criteria above, we have a range of English Language programmes available.

There are additional English requirements for international students – you can find more information on our website.

For more information download the programme regulations: unitec.ac.nz/art-design International Students, please visit unitec.ac.nz/international