Creative Media

Our Creative Practice MA is open to professionals and graduates who aspire to meet the evolving demands of contemporary creative practice.

You will gain strong theoretical and cultural contextual knowledge and will hone your conceptual thinking and innovation. This course will enhance your career prospects in the creative industries and enable you to become an effective and confident practitioner.

Key features

• A stimulating opportunity to work alongside practitioners from a variety of disciplines
• A broad-ranging course that expands your creative horizons
• Strong theoretical, experimental and professional practice strands
• A community in the Institute of Arts and Humanities, of teaching staff and technicians who all have a professional track record in their field

Teaching

You are taught through a combination of lectures, interactive presentations of your work, tutorials and workshops that are intended to enable the application of learning through discussion, tutorial guidance and small group activities in workshops. Presentations and tutorials enable the discussion and development of understanding of topics covered in lectures.

You will be expected to take responsibility for engagement with your learning experience but this will be supported continuously by close tutorial guidance.

You will be able to attend undergraduate module talks and visits in order to achieve additional subject knowledge.

Practitioners from the creative industries will give talks on their work and provide input on the Professional Practice module.

Careers

If you are a media practitioner, you can find employment in design, film, television or photography studios. If your field is in fine art, you could find employment in galleries, curation or public and private commissions. Many of our graduates proceed to freelance careers. Others find vocation as teachers and lecturers.

We have designed this exciting course such that you may participate in any area that represents your practice. You might be a designer, filmmaker, illustrator, painter, photographer, printmaker, animator or practicing in any other creative field. One of the distinct aspects of our programme is that you will be working and studying alongside graduates in a range of disciplines: this is an unusual, and very stimulating, inspiring factor of the course. You will benefit from contribution and support from student colleagues from diverse disciplines that will broaden your outlook and vision.

Graduates of the current programme have been successfully placed in studios specialising in design, video editing, film production and photography. Many are now pursuing freelance practice.