Student support
Throughout your online studies, we’ll support you every step of the way
As an MA online student at AUB, you’ll never be alone on your academic journey. From friendly adviser teams to wellbeing support and expert tutors, you’ll always find someone to give you the help you need.
Read on to learn more about the supportive community you’ll join by choosing us for your online studies.
Who you’ll meet on your journey
Before you study
Our enquiry adviser team are here to advise you on whether your qualifications and work experience make you a good fit for the course you're interested in. Contact us here.
Our course adviser team are available to answer any questions you may have about course content, assessments, online learning, and career prospects.
Find out more about the application process here.
While you study
Our student adviser team are here to assist you with anything outside of your coursework. For areas ranging from financial support and fee payment to disability assistance, think of them as your first point of contact. They’ll also point you to any support services you need while you study with us.
You’ll have regular discussions with our academics in webinars and online forums. They’ll give you feedback on your progress through the course and answer your questions on course content, learning activities and assessments. Some of our tutors are also active industry practitioners – they’ll give you concrete, realistic advice on how to get where you want to be.
Throughout your studies, you’ll be encouraged to connect with others in webinars and discussion forums. It’s normal to experience doubts and have questions – your peers are the best people to reach out to.
Our optional face-to-face events are a great opportunity to meet your academic team and coursemates. As an online student, you’ll have the opportunity to attend up to two face-to-face events per academic year. We'll cover costs relating to the event itself (such as entry fees), but you’ll need to pay for your own travel and accommodation.
After you graduate
Our support doesn't end when you complete your course. Once you become a part of our alumni, you can continue accessing learning and professional development opportunities throughout your career. Be sure to check out our alumni network, AUB&, to get involved.
Like our on-campus students, you’ll get access to AUB Futures, our careers and employability service. You’ll be able to use this hub throughout your studies, and for a set period after you graduate. From 1-1 appointments with our Careers and Enterprise team to advice on how to set yourself up as a freelancer, we’ve got you covered.
“The exceptional level of support played a pivotal role in my decision to choose AUB. I was provided with comprehensive information that thoroughly prepared me for the start of my studies.”
Ahmed Khattab | Etihad Aviation Group Designer and AUB Online MA Interior Design Student
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We like to call it community.
Because when you're an online student, you might think that you that you're all by yourself and, you'll just have like a couple of prerecorded presentations to look at and then hand in your assignment, but it's not like that at all. One of our students gave feedback on this recently because, you know, I asked the the students how are you finding the course? You know, what you really like. And she said that to have that feeling of being involved in the group, she really appreciated that.
And also this, you know, it's flexible as it's online and your presentations are recorded, you can look at them when you want. This is another point of feedback students are saying that they really do appreciate not like a normal lecture where it sort of goes over your head and you've got to write notes or something, refer back to your notes.
The lectures you can play back there's lecture notes included in everything.
And also, like I said, that the industry, connections that students make. So are already making connections with industry and, reaching out to these presenters that, are all willing to sort of give to the course. So, yeah, there's a lot of support, and I won't say too much about it because I'm sure the others have got the same stories, but, it's not only the support that they get on the online, it's the advisors, the court advisors, but they're there the whole time. So if anybody's got any questions or problems, they can go to the course advisers, or they can just post a question online that they post whatever they want to know, post a question, and then they get their feedback.
Feel like the career pathway is multifarious and lots of possibilities there within film.
Specifically to think about skills that this course would equip students with.
You know, there are practical and creative skills, so encouraging students to explore new materials or techniques in their filmmaking work.
We also kind of prioritize film analysis and research methods and try and encourage students to gain a contextual understanding of their practice in relation to the creative industries and with wider areas of visual culture.
Because films are ultimately only as good as the ideas that support them.
Communication and presentation are also really important skills to find work and to be a successful filmmaker in lots of different disciplines within the industry.
So we encourage students to kind of synthesize their ideas, develop compelling project proposals and bring them to life through collaboration.
However, we do encourage, very strongly, developing an online studio community of practice; the students are always, engaging with each other, sharing ideas, swapping briefs, swapping designs, getting feedback from each other, as if we were part of a practice, of however many students we are. So, no, we don't have any sort of, group projects in that traditional sense. The other thing we do is, of course, landscape architecture is a very collaborative discipline, not many landscape architects would be working completely independently on any project, and obviously as the projects increase in scale and complexity, like with interior design, one is always part of a wider kind of range of people, and that's something we look at very much in terms of analysis and understanding and looking at exemplars and really understanding where the landscape practice sits within the other disciplines. It's a strong part of our course.
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