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Level 8 Programme
Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Practice Credits 120 (1.0 EFTS)
Start dates February or July
Annual fees $7,900 (NZD)
Campus Mt Albert
Duration Full-time for one year or part-time for two years
(Approximate domestic fees only. Includes GST but excludes the Compulsory Student Services Fee levy)
Career opportunities
This postgraduate diploma is a highly flexible studio or industry-based programme that will progress your professional career by developing advanced academic, practical and creative skills through an exhibition, publication or industry project.
• Artist • Choreographer • Creative director • Curator • Digital artist • Director • Graphic designer • Photographer • Producer • Visual artist
Highlights • Create a body of new work, improve your job opportunities and refresh or re-orient your profession. • Develop critical self-reflection, creative thinking and research skills by taking your practice to an advanced level. • Work in an evolving multi-disciplinary environment where you’ll get exposure to a wide range of approaches, practices and theories. • Improve your communication and project proposal skills through studio critiques and written components.
Programme overview In your first semester, a combination of taught, negotiated or studio courses allow you to tailor the learning experience to your specialist creative research interests, traditional (graphic design, industrial design, photography, animation, visual arts, performance) or hybrid domains (service design, experience design, design for social innovation, performance or production design, transmedia or interdisciplinary practice). Your second semester involves conceptualising, proposing and implementing advanced creative research. You’ll be supervised and mentored by academic staff and/or industry professionals, with access to multidisciplinary creative studios, and supervised by industry-leading educators, artists and designers. Creative projects may take place on-campus or be integrated with a relevant workplace.
Admission requirements
• Learn from supervisors that include notable artists, designers and educators.
For this programme, you’ll need:
• Enhance your creative portfolio with a significant advanced research project.
1. To be 16 years old by the start of your first semester
General admission
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.
English Applicants will need one or more of the following: • 8 credits at NCEA Level 2 in English (4 in reading, 4 in writing)
• Provide evidence that you satisfy our criteria for existing English proficiency such as IELTS • 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, visit unitec.ac.nz/international
