Course details

Age: 21+

Academic level: International degree level qualification or equivalent + Portfolio

English Language level:  From IELTS 4.5

Entry dates:

Locations: Cambridge

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Pre-Master's Art & Design

Student sketchbookPre-Master's students

Extended Pre-Master's Art & Design

If you would like to study this course, but do not yet have the required English language level, you can instead follow the Extended Pre-Master's Art & Design.


The extended programme combines the practice and theoretical study of the Pre-Master's programme with 1 or 2 terms of pure English Language, allowing students to reach the English and academic level necessary for entry to a UK Master's degree.

 

IELTS requirement

Start dates

Number of modules of pure English language

Pre-Master's Art & Design (1 semester)

6.0

September / January

None

Pre-Master's Art & Design (2 semesters)

5.5

September

None

Extended Pre-Master's Art & Design (1 semester + 1 term of English)

5.5

June / September

One

Extended Pre-Master's Art & Design (1 semester + 2 terms of English)

5.0

April / June

Two

Extended Pre-Master's Art & Design (2 semesters + 1 term of English)

5.0

June

One

Extended Pre-Master's Art & Design (2 semesters + 2 terms of English)

4.5

April

Two

Hanny Ahern

Student Profile

Hanny Ahern, USA

"After CSVPA, nothing but Doors of opportunity opened up to me and I had the confidence to walk right through them and even knock on closed ones."

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About the course

Lecturer: Fine Art

Student Profile

Issam Kourbaj, Artist in Residence at Christ's College, Cambridge University

Issam is a sculptor, painter and theatre designer based in Cambridge. He studied in Damscus under the well-known Syrian artist Fateh Moudarres (d.1999), before completing his training in St Petersburg and London.

Some of his work is in the collections of the Department of Middle East and the Department of Prints & Drawings of the British Museum; he has exhibited on three continents.

Since 1989 he has lived in Cambridge and is now a Bye-Fellow at Christ's College and Artist in Residence there. For the past five years his work has drawn inspiration from the world of science.

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