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From: ed Category: Art Date: 27 January 2010 Time: 07:26 AM Review: worldwidereviewers unite and get a qualification! "In October 2010 the Royal College of Art in London will launch anew MA programme in Critical Writing in Art and Design. Thepostgraduate programme has been designed to develop the literaryand intellectual skills required for art and design criticism inan age of rapid technological and cultural change. This full-time, two-year MA explores different aspects of writingabout and for contemporary art and design. Students on theprogramme will develop specialist knowledge of a field of art,design, architecture, fashion or the applied arts. They will alsofollow a common programme of classes designed to develop theirskills as writers, editors and thinkers. Students on this master’s programme will be working amongst artists,designers, architects and applied artists studying in Britain’s onlypostgraduate university of art and design. A stimulating andintellectually provocative setting; world-leading artists, criticsand designers exhibit, lecture and teach here. Students on the Critical Writing in Art and Design MA will haveopportunities to publish their work - interviews, reviews, polemics,sustained critical essays and scripts - on-line and in print. Workingalongside graphic designers and other postgraduates in the College,they will produce a major print publication in the second year oftheir studies. Graduates will leave the College with a portfolioof different kinds of writing, editing skills and criticalunderstanding as well as membership of a formidable network ofRCA graduates. Interviews for places on the course will be held in the spring(subject to February validation of the programme). Applicationsare encouraged from anyone with a good BA degree in a humanities/ arts subject (including studio-courses in art and design).Applicants will need to demonstrate a commitment to writing anda strong interest in contemporary art and design practice. The College is able to allocate more than £2.5 million in bursariesto eligible students towards the fees and the costs of living inLondon. They are available to home and EU students on a competitivebasis. For further details, please go to http://www.rca.ac.uk/prospectusIf you have further queries, please contact programme leaderDavid Crowley at david.crowley@rca.ac.uk"