Doctor of Philosophy - Art, Design and Media
UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
About this program
UNSW's Doctor of Philosophy in Art, Design and Media is a research doctorate that can include studio research as part of the thesis, requiring a minimum of three years of full-time study, with the written thesis normally significantly shorter than 100,000 words when studio work forms part of the submission. Because the program is entirely research-driven, the specific creative or scholarly focus depends on the individual candidate's chosen practice or research question within art, design or media, submitted for examination within four years of full-time study. It suits practising artists, designers or media practitioners with a genuine creative research question who want their practice recognised as legitimate doctoral research, as well as scholars pursuing purely written research in these fields, rather than students seeking a taught postgraduate creative arts qualification.
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Course structure
- Students must complete 144 UOC when taken as a standalone program
Admissions
A candidate for the degree shall have been awarded an appropriate degree of Bachelor with Honours from the University of New South Wales or a qualification considered equivalent from another university or tertiary institution at a level acceptable to the Research Committee of the appropriate Faculty. Candidates may be admitted to the PhD program after one year's full-time enrolment in a Masters by Research program, with the approval of the Faculty Postgraduate Affairs Committee. In exceptional cases an applicant who submits evidence of such other academic and professional qualifications as may be approved by the Committee may be permitted to enrol. For further information, see the Admission to Higher Degree Research Programs Procedure . Portfolio is required for admission into this program.
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