Professional Practice in Creative Media Industries (Taught)

The Professional Practice in Creative Media Industries Masters is a fully online programme and offers early, mid or late-career creative media professionals the opportunity to critically reflect on and evaluate their existing knowledge and skills.

This unique online Masters programme, which can be studied anywhere in the world, covers critical understanding of theory, project research, theoretical and practical elements in creative media, a deeper understanding of your practice, and analytical and communication skills. It is designed to help practitioners consolidate their creative identity by designing and realising original and personal research projects. Each student is offered the opportunity to co-create a bespoke masters journey, designing a masters route specific to them, creating and reflecting on the practical work that they choose to engage with.

Course Modules

Module 1
Name: Project Planning and Theoretical Perspectives
Description: The aims of this module are to enable you to develop your initial Creative Media Major Project ideas into an integrated project and learning plan suitable for your programme. As part of the project plan, you will establish the theoretical framework, aims and methodology of your project, as well as a rationale for feasibility and accountability. In particular, you will investigate both research methodologies and project-based methods to substantiate the framework and structure of the work.
This module allows you to develop your own Major Project idea, providing you with the tools for planning, research methodologies, and grounding you in scholarly practice. The module will be underpinned by theoretical perspectives in creative media in order to address research questions or problems.

Module 2
Name: Professional Development Scheme
Description: The aims of this module are to enable you to gain new theoretical knowledge and practical skills in your specialist discipline to successfully complete your Creative Media Major Project and to better prepare you for lifelong learning and a successful career in the creative media industries. You will work with your Learning Advisor to reflect and identify gaps in your skills and knowledge which will be needed to complete the programme. A bespoke set of projects and learning activities will then be scheduled for you to address these gaps, ensuring that you also meet the required learning outcomes, which you will be required to evidence by critical contextualisation of your learning within the broader frame of your professional practice.

Module 3
Name: Creative Media Project (MA/MSc)
Description: The aims of this module are to enable you to exercise your knowledge and full gamut of technical, creative and scholarly skills and abilities in a substantial and original work worthy of dissemination. The project will reflect your innovative approaches to solving problems and demonstrate technical mastery of your chosen medium. The module also aims to help you to develop a sophisticated and deeply personal understanding of your individual creative processes by conducting ongoing reflective investigations. The project will reflect this and also reflect an understanding of the context in which your work sits within a broader community of practice of the arts/science.

Module 1
Name: Project Planning and Theoretical Perspectives
Assessment Methods: The holistic assessment of the portfolio forms 100% of the summative grading of the module. Portfolio artefacts: Abstract - Presentation - Research Poster - Major Project Proposal - Learning Journal

Module 2
Name: Professional Development Scheme
Assessment Methods: The holistic assessment of the portfolio forms 100% of the summative grading of the module. Portfolio artefacts: Personally Co-Designed Project - Project Plan - Reflective Report - Learning Journal

Module 3
Name: Creative Media Project (MA/MSc)
Assessment Methods: Personally Co-Designed Creative Project - Learning Journal