If you are an international student who has completed an Art & Design degree outside of the UK and are looking to come to the UK with the ambition of studying on a Master’s course in the same, or related, art and design discipline, our Pre-Master’s programme will help prepare you for this transition. This course also suits any UK or European creative practitioner looking for an opportunity to develop their portfolio in anticipation of an application to any UK Master’s programme, in any Art & Design discipline, or simply as a means of investing in their own creative practice and professional development. WHY STUDY PRE-MASTER’S IN ART AND DESIGNYou should choose to study a Pre-Master’s in Art and Design at CSVPA if you, have studied your BA outside the UK and are wishing to adapt your work and study practices to a UK higher educational environment, would like to improve your English Language level for application to a Master’s course, would like to develop your portfolio within a dynamic, project-led, attentive, transformative, interdisciplinary creative studio environment, would like to develop potential lines for creative and critical enquiry, developing assumptions and ambitions for further research

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