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    2-YEAR PG Arts Program

    Award: M.A

    Program Overview

    Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, offers a 2 Year Postgraduate Arts Program and a 1 Year Postgraduate Diploma – Finish may be awarded upon successful completion of the Year 1 of the MA program. These programs along with its specialised courses are aimed at creative practitioners, professionals, and researchers.

    The MA programs at SMI engage simultaneously with the fields of arts, humanities, and design, comprising specializations and curricula where:

    • Making is the lens for theoretical reflection; and
    • What is made is the subject of critical inquiry.
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    MA at Srishti Manipal Institute

    Individuals interested in the practices of critical scholarship, creative arts, and media who would like to:

    • Advance careers in the arts, technology, and cultural sector;
    • Ground current skills in research and public practice; and/or
    • Pursue further studies in a PhD program.

    At the heart of it, the MA concentrations prepare students to:

    • Develop theoretical, historical, philosophical, and material approaches to practice;
    • Reflect on fields of practice and one’s relationship to practice (questions of personhood);
    • Add criticality to practice, including academia;
    • Collaborate with other professionals; and
    • Engage distinct communities and publics.

    The specificities of MA practice are:

    Making use of different media, ways of knowing, and research methodologies that help to:

    • Re-position skill as a keyword for empirical and theoretical inquiry.
    • Make tangible the processes of learning and research by engaging directly with communities, technologies, primary material sources, and published scholarship.
    • Define employability as future academics, public practitioners in arts and design organizations, cultural organizers, and researchers in academic and public projects.

    The educational goals of an MA are:

    MA students develop research, critical making, and public scholarship skills via textual, visual, and multi-media forms that:

    • Bring out key questions, forms, and methods by scholars and practitioners in the field.
    • Study past and contemporary understandings of material phenomena. Through such studies, the history and theory of these fields and practices and their philosophies and methods of knowing and making become significant.
    • Build discourse around specific themes defined by time, geographical focus, social complexity, material medium, and one’s positionality as researcher, teacher, and/or maker.
    • Examine ethics of research scholarship and practice.
    • Commit to public good towards responsible citizen-scholarship.
    • Anticipate possible futures by centering the materiality of complex human and non-human conditions.

    Modes of learning:

    • Integrated Studios (Disciplinary, Interdisciplinary, Transdisciplinary)
    • Core Seminars and Electives
    • Lines of Inquiry (Curricular Investigations; Individual or Group Interdisciplinary or Transdisciplinary Projects; Practice Research)
    • Academic Writing
    • Artist Residency
    • Public Exhibitions
    • Culminating Performances of Understanding (Portfolio, Transdisciplinary Research and Projects, Colloquia, Capstone/Dissertation)
    • Knowledge Enhancement (Ability or Skills) Courses

    Courses

    Award: M.A.

    Eligibility for Admission

    Applicants should have successfully completed any one of the following:

    1. NSQF Certification Level 8 in relevent industry sector
    2. National and International Universities – 3 year Undergraduate Degree including 3 year Bachelor of Vocation (B.Voc.) degree
    3. National and International Universities – 3 years Undergraduate Degree + 1 year
    4. Postgraduate Diploma Program (PGDP) from a recognized University
    5. National and International Universities – 4 years Undergraduate Degree Professional Institute – 5 years Undergraduate Degree

    Please note that all awarding bodies must be recognised by state and/or central government institutions. Attach two copies of relevant certificates.

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