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De Montfort University: Arts, Design and Humanities
De Montfort University
Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities
The Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities brings together leading research, award-winning work, and innovation in the university's many creative disciplines. We offer a range of postgraduate courses that are designed with employability in mind, ensuring you gain the skills and experience required by, and relevant in industry today.
Art and Design
Our art and design courses deliver an advanced enquiry-led education, designed to prepare and challenge for a globalised creative world. All of our courses are project-based and centred around the studio, where you will learn through collaborative and personalised teaching experiences. Our dedicated tutors come from industry, practice and research, which will ensure that your work is responding to real-world issues that are grounded in both theory and practice.
Fashion and Textiles
The School of Fashion and Textiles is founded upon a rich heritage of industry connections and academic expertise. The school offers a diverse portfolio of postgraduate programmes and an ethos of inclusivity, sustainability and technical innovation. Our courses address the environmental and ethical challenges faced by the industry and ensure graduates develop their skills to be future-facing and responsible designers, communicators, researchers and managers.
Humanities
Taught by active researchers and practitioners who are acclaimed experts in their fields, you will be inspired and intellectually challenged to gain the most from your studies and learn how to put theoretical ideas and concepts into real-world practice. Our courses are flexible in helping you develop your own specialisms and research interests. It is an ideal stepping-stone to either research at PhD level or a career in teaching, media, the civil service or the creative and heritage industries.
Performance and Cultural Event Management
Our innovative and sector-leading courses are focused around the practical application of knowledge and informed by partnerships with the creative and cultural industries. You will be taught by active researchers and practitioners who have international profiles in their respective fields. Our courses are designed to respond to industry and will equip you with a range of transferable skills that prepare you for a variety of exciting roles in cultural and arts-based events or to undertake a PhD.
Supporting you with your career
DMU offers all postgraduate students a programme of professional development and industry experience. This includes; one-on-one coaching and a packed calendar of employer events, a host of exciting national and international opportunities with DMU Global trips, mentoring from industry professionals, and an award-winning careers and development service.
Our campus and facilities
Our modern, city-centre campus is situated in the multi-cultural hub of Leicester, meaning DMU students really do get the best of both worlds. A safe and peaceful place to study with everything in easy reach, while only minutes away from the exciting buzz of the city centre. Our campus has been designed to make you feel comfortable, inspired, and able to reach your goals and embrace the best of student life.
Leicester – a city for your career
Leicester is conveniently located in the heart of England and is a city boasts an abundance of art, music and sport alongside amazing bars and nightlife. Leicester has been named one of the most vibrant cities in the UK* and the best city in the East Midlands to live and work**. It’s home to major employers such as Caterpillar UK, Dunelm, E.ON, Europcar Group, IBM, Joules, Mattioli Woods, Next and PepsiCo.
It's an excellent place to find work and kickstart careers and has been named among the country’s start-up hotspots (Capital on Tap), with DMU named one of Britain’s top 10 universities for the most student and graduate start-ups.
*Top Cities Vibrancy Report, 2022
**Good Growth for Cities Index, 2022
Available courses
- Architectural and Sustainability (MSc)
- Architectural Practice (Postgraduate Diploma - PgDip)
- Architecture (Master of Architecture - MArch)
- Choreography (MA)
- Contemporary Art Practice (MA)
- Contour Fashion Innovation (MA/MSc)
- Creative Writing (MA)
- Cricket Management (Postgraduate Certificate - PgCert)
- Cultural Events Management (MSc)
- Design Innovation (MA/MSc)
- Design Innovation and Management (MA/MSc)
- Digital Design (MA)
- English Language Teaching (MA)
- Fashion and Textiles (MA)
- Fashion Management with Marketing (MA/MSc)
- Humanities Research (MA/MSc)
- Interior Design (MA)
- International Relations (MA)
- Photographic History (MA)
- Product Design (MA)
- Sport History and Culture (MA)
- Sport Management (MSc)
- Sustainable Textile Technologies (MSc)
- Theatre and Performance (MA)
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