NZ Diploma in Arts and Design (Level 6)
Visual Arts
A course by
EIT
Advance your creative career with the NZ Diploma in Arts and Design (Level 6), developing specialised skills through hands-on projects in areas like design, fashion, music, screen production, and visual arts. Graduates can progress to the Bachelor of Creative Practice.
In-person study
Face-to-face learning in a physical classroom setting
Hawke's Bay Campus, Napier
It will take a total of 1 year
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Produce work in a specialised creative discipline
Apply specialised skills and theoretical knowledge to create work in art, design, music, fashion, or screen production.
Use investigative and creative tools
Employ creative processes, methods, and technologies to synthesise ideas and solve problems within a chosen creative field.
Critically analyse and position work
Conduct research and critically analyse findings to support idea development and set own work within contemporary contexts and conventions in the arts.
What You're Signing Up For
This one-year diploma builds on foundational creative knowledge, letting students develop advanced skills in a chosen creative discipline through real-life and in-house projects. Disciplines include design, fashion, music, screen production, and visual arts. The project-based approach develops both practical and theoretical expertise, professional skills for the creative industries, and prepares graduates for a career as a creative practitioner or further study at the bachelor's level.
Course Content
- Project-based learning in creative disciplines
- Advanced skills in art, design, music, fashion, and screen production
- Professional and industry knowledge
- Creative processes and methods
- Research and critical analysis in creative fields
- Marketing and basic business management for creatives
- Legal issues relevant to creative practice
- Portfolio development
- Self-directed project work
What you need to know first
120 credits of an NZQA approved Level 5 Degree/Diploma qualification or equivalent
OR demonstration of potential to succeed and be over the age of 20 by the official start date
Hand-written letter of application and a portfolio representing creative achievement
Interview (must bring evidence of creative work and documentation of process)
What sort of industry will this job lead to
Arts
Design
Music
Fashion
Screen production
Creative industries
Future employment opportunities might be
Entry-level positions in arts, fashion, music, or screen industry
Graphic design roles
Furniture design
Gallery or museum curation
Illustrator, painter, sculptor, printmaker
Interior or spatial design intern
Web designer
Fashion designer
Musician, composer, performer
Screen, film, TV production roles
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