Cultural and Creative Industries

How do cultural and creative industries operate? How are they shaped by the world around them? Whether your interest lies in the arts, music, performance, gaming, marketing, or more, you’ll have the opportunity to pursue your passion in depth.

Creativity and culture play a vital role in our daily lives. This course will allow you to deep-dive into the production, distribution, promotion and reception of content and experiences from across the full range of cultural and creative sectors. Learning from experts across the sector, you’ll discover how the content, strategies and practices of these industries are interconnected and shaped by technology, politics, economics and socio-cultural dynamics.

Learning from experts across the sector, you’ll discover how the content, strategies and practices of these industries are interconnected and shaped by technology, politics, economics and socio-cultural dynamics.

Explore their key role in how the cultural and creative industries are perceived by the wider world.

Here you’ll interrogate the wider concepts of creativity, culture, and innovation, and explore their key role in how the cultural and creative industries are perceived by the wider world.

Hollywood Internships programme
This course is perfect for a career in the creative industries. At Nottingham, you can gain valuable experience through internships, placements, and work opportunities. No more so though than with our prestigious Hollywood Internships programme, unique to Nottingham. Previous internships have involved:

• First-reading of incoming film and television scripts

• Collecting audience data and preparing evaluation reports

• Filming interviews with Hollywood veterans for the archive

• Training, masterclasses, professional lectures and panels

• Working front of house at special screenings and industry events

• Indicative partner organisations include A24, CAA, Disney, Warner, Paramount, Sony, Lionsgate, UTA, and WME.

Our partners, and the number and nature of the internships, change each year. Vacancies are advertised in the Autumn term for students in years two and above. These are highly competitive positions, and places are not guaranteed. Terms and conditions apply.

The internships are supported through the generosity of Peter Rice, Nottingham graduate and former Chair of Disney General Entertainment Content

The awards are competitive and open exclusively to our students.

Engaged Arts
All students within the Faculty of Arts can select ‘Engaged Arts’ modules where you’ll approach real-world challenges across contemporary themes such as sustainability or equity and justice. These modules have been newly designed to help you gain the skills and analytical abilities that employers are looking for.

Why choose this course?

• Cross-sector education that acknowledges the broad reach of the cultural and creative industries

• Apply theoretical knowledge to real-world situations, preparing you for a career in the sector

• Freedom to explore - Deepen your knowledge of your favourite topics and explore new ones

• Industries’ and is responsive to industrial and technological change

• Internships - opportunities in US and UK creative sectors, including Hollywood

• Award winning NSTV - get involved with our multi-award winning, student-run TV station

• Explore real-world challenge - study across interdisciplinary themes with our ‘Engaged Arts’ optional modules

You can also access this course through a Foundation Year. This may be suitable if you have faced educational barriers and do not expect to meet the entry requirements for direct entry to a degree course. Please see the UCAS page for the relevant Foundation Year course for further information.