Combined Arts: Creativity with Integrated Masters (Online)

Transformative courses for tomorrow’s creatives.

This Combined Arts online degree gives you the opportunity to explore a wide range of creative disciplines, following your ambition and passion while developing your own creative voice and growing a wide range of transferrable skills.

This Integrated Master’s model combines undergraduate and postgraduate study in one efficient, effective degree which will give you a strong creative theoretical background, as well as creative space to explore your own independent research and projects.

Studied 100% online and in a way that works for you, the Combined Arts courses bring expertise from across the creative disciplines; design, writing, illustration, visual communication, and fine art. You will focus on in-demand skills aligned with future careers. With a focus on problem-based learning, you’ll grow as an engaged and innovative creative who can apply your knowledge to real-world problems.

This accelerated pace offers you the opportunity to enter the workplace with a postgraduate qualification ahead of your peers, with the flexibility to focus on areas of the creative industries that matter to you and your future career.

Why study this course at Falmouth?

• Simplicity and flexibility: The Combined Arts Integrated Master’s courses offer a flexible and personalised learning experience, allowing you to shape your own academic journey and build your study around your life

• Broad creative arts and design basics curriculum: You'll gain a breadth of creative and critical skills from across a range of arts disciplines, enhancing your employability.

• Problem-based curriculum design: With an emphasis on creativity and problem-solving, you’ll be equipped to approach real-world challenges in both life and work.

• Interdisciplinary approach: This course cultivates the ability to tackle complex problems by integrating diverse academic perspectives.

• A connected community: Join a global community of diverse practitioners and make career-defining connections.

This online Combined Arts degree is structured around a broad learning experience, drawing on diverse academic fields, meaning that you will graduate with discipline-specific skills for the creative industries, but also with an ability to grapple with complex challenges through a transdisciplinary lens.

This course uses a problem-based learning approach. Supported by your tutors, you’ll be given challenges alongside the resources and tools to solve or meet them. You decide your own learning boundaries and are supported to make yours an exciting, and effective learning experience.

The Combined Arts: Creativity course is perfect for storytellers, makers, and imaginative thinkers. It focuses on the ability to generate new ideas, solutions, or approaches by using imagination, critical thinking and other essential creative skills.

On this course, your practice could involve various skills, including visual communication, content creation, storyboarding, copywriting, prototyping, art direction, and creative writing. It can also include technical skills linked with a chosen medium, such as understanding photography or video techniques.

While the definition of creativity has evolved and, in some cases, may be industry specific, there are conserved core components of creativity that this course will explore. Through your approach to your PBL cases, your artistic, interdisciplinary skills will intertwine and build on one another, creating a robust foundation for creativity in various personal and professional contexts.  Empathy - particularly cognitive empathy - has been linked to increased creative activity, and some PBL cases will explore those aspects that link creativity to wellbeing.

Year One
The first year of the Integrated Master’s Combined Arts focuses on development of core skills that you’ll need throughout your studies. These will be developed as you progress through the programme.

You will be introduced to problem-based learning, how it works and the benefits to you as a learner, and you will build your confidence in managing your own self-directed study under the guidance of your tutors.

This first year covers themes such as study skills, sustainability, communication and organisation, and is the solid foundation on which you’ll build advanced skills and with that, your own creative practice.

Modules:
The Art of Problem-Based Learning
Places and Spaces: Community, Identity and Change
Visualise and Innovate: Creative Problem-Solving
Transformations: Imagining Community Spaces

Year Two
The second year of this Combined Arts Integrated Master's builds on the first and continues the focus on building a first-rate personal creative skillset.

The year ahead covers advanced creative practice, analytical skills and collaborative working, as well as themes of inclusivity and wellbeing in creative practice to give you a resilient future in the creative industries. This year becomes the creative space to engage with more advanced skills and refine your research, ethical and analytical skills that will underpin your developing creative practice.

Modules:
Collaboration
The Creative Cultural Sphere
The Entrepreneurial Creative
Future Skills
Creativity Unbound: Perspectives and Voices on Nature and Place
Final Major Project

Year Three
The third and final year (Level 7) of the Combined Arts Integrated Master’s has an increased focus on refining and developing your personal research practice using problem-based learning examples, to help drive learning and skill development, in line with a master’s level programme.

As the problems get more complex, you will stretch your skills to meet that complexity, and in doing so, grow into a unique citizen-graduate.

Modules:
Research Skills as the Foundation of Success
Practice Research by Researching Practice
Sustainable Strategies
The Multifaceted Art of Storytelling
Final Major Project.

100% of your assessment will be coursework. There are no exams on this course.

Assessment methods may include:

• Videos, presentations, visual work and written assignments
• In the final year of your undergraduate studies, you’ll complete a supervised Final Major Project as a reflection of your first two years of learning
• In the final year of your postgraduate studies, you’ll complete a Final Major Project at master’s level, drawing on your combined specialisms