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History of Design and Material Culture MA

Key facts

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Qualification Master's Degree
Study mode Full-time, Part-time
Duration 1 year
Intakes September
Tuition (Local students) ₹ 652,286
Tuition (Foreign students) ₹ 1,557,698

Subjects

  • Creative Arts & Design

  • History

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Duration

1 year

Tuition fees

Description Local students Foreign students
Tuition fee ₹ 652,286 ₹ 1,557,698
Miscellaneous fees Data not available Data not available
Total estimated cost of attendance ₹ 652,286 ₹ 1,557,698
Estimated cost per year ₹ 652,286 ₹ 1,557,698

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Admissions

Intakes

Entry Requirements

Degree and/or experience:

  • Degree or equivalent in related subject, or relevant professional experience. Admission subject to interview.

English Language Requirement:

  • IELTS 7.5 overall.

Curriculum

Exploring Objects
The Exploring Objects module introduces you to a series of different research methods and historiographical approaches, as you interrogate and make sense of designed objects in terms of how they are designed, produced, circulated, consumed and used in everyday life. It covers the period from the late eighteenth century to the present time and typically involves discussion and debate on the following themes, theories and methods: Marxist and post-Marxist historiography; production and consumption; gender and taste; phenomenology; object-based analysis; the use of archives; and 'good writing/bad writing'. It also introduces you to the academic rigour of postgraduate dissertation research.

Mediating Objects
This module complements Exploring Objects by focusing on the mediation between 'this one' (the object itself) and 'that one' (the object as represented in word and image). On one level, it examines how objects are translated in various texts and contexts, from museum and private collections to photographs, advertisements, film and fiction. On another level, it examines how objects are transformed through the embodied processes of everyday rituals such as gift-giving and personal oral and collective memories. The module therefore deals with the idea of intertexualities and how the identities of things and people are phenomenologically bound up with each other. By extension, you examine objects in relation to ideas concerning sex, gender, class, generation, race and ethnicity.

Dissertation
The centrepiece of your MA studies, the dissertation is a piece of original writing between 18,000 and 20,000 words on a research topic of your own choosing. It allows you to pursue a specific research topic related to your own academic and intellectual interests in a given area of the history of design and material culture, for example fashion and dress, textiles, ceramics and glass, product design, interior design and architecture, graphic communications, advertising and photography, film, museums, collecting and curating, and design pedagogy. The dissertation is largely based on primary research, often using specialist archives and surviving historical material.