Creative Futures

Students can graduate with one of the following awards:

• MA Creative Futures: Design

• MA Creative Futures: Ceramic Design

• MA Creative Futures: Graphic Design

• MA Creative Futures: Product Design

• MA Creative Futures: Surface Pattern Design

• MA Creative Futures: Textile Design

• MA Creative Futures: 3D Design

• MA Creative Futures: Advertising and Brand Management

• MA Creative Futures: Illustration

• MA Creative Futures: Animation

• MA Creative Futures: VFX

• MA Creative Futures: Photography

• MA Creative Futures: Contemporary Art Practice

• MA Creative Futures: Writing

• MA Creative Futures: Heritage and Culture

• MA Creative Futures: Applied Theatre

Creative Futures offers recent graduates and established practitioners a chance to continue to develop their chosen discipline and specialist practice at masters level. You will gain advanced creative, technical and business skills, a sophisticated understanding of the business environment and a formalised work experience placement. The aim is to enhance your appeal in the job market and/or provide you with the tools needed to set up in freelance practice or to create your own business. 

Every student will be allocated a personal, industry-based mentor, who will offer support, advice and guidance on professional and business-related matters. Students will receive tuition in business skills that are designed and delivered specifically for creative practitioners as well as access to our extensive workshops and specialist facilities.

The award is designed to provide maximum flexibility, whether the programme is being studied on a full or part-time basis: All modules have an extensive distance-learning component, combined with intensive, full-day workshops.

Modules you will study include:

Creativity and Enterprise

This module sets out to equip you with advanced techniques that will support your ability to generate new ideas, to present and communicate them persuasively and to turn them into reality.  You will then learn how to present that idea in convincing and persuasive ways, explore the value of networking and practice pitching your idea to potential partners/funders/clients.  You will also be assigned your own industry-based mentor who will support you through your MA studies.

Creative, Technical and Business Skills

This module offers the student the opportunity to explore skills-based learning in four personally identified areas of interest, that the student feels will best support their personal career aspirations on graduation. The learning elements offered will be within the 3 broad strands of Creative / Technical Skills, Business Skills and Digital Skills. The student will initially complete a personal reflective process on their future intentions, and from this develop a gap analysis which will identify specific areas of need for skills enhancement.

Creative Futures: Work Experience

This module provides the opportunity to reflect upon and evaluate your current experience of the professional world of work within the creative and cultural industries and the opportunity to enhance employability and the development of business skills.
You will be required to review your opportunities to build further individual knowledge and skills development and an evaluation will be made to identify any further relevant training requirements to enhance employability or business development.

Creative Futures: Masters Project

This module will provide you with an opportunity to undertake a negotiated programme of personal creative research and development leading to a substantial body of work. The chosen direction for your project should be closely allied to your career path and you would be expected where appropriate to exploit the knowledge and experience gained during work experience.

There will also be an opportunity to choose from the following option modules:

• Responsible Futures

• Personal Branding

• Design Management (VLE)

• Media: Contexts and Change

• Creativity and Innovation

• New Media and Society (VLE)

• Creative Entrepreneurship Preparation (VLE)

• Contemporary Curating

• Project Management for Creative Industries

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