This Master's programme, with an exit route at Postgraduate Diploma level, will be attractive to undergraduates who wish to either develop a business arising from an existing creative practice or who would like to understand how to create the infrastructure and environment for new creative businesses in the fields of Drama, Design, Media and Communications or Music to flourish in a variety of contexts (eg city, rural, regional, national).
The new programme will be taught in partnership by a number of departments within Goldsmiths and with key individuals and organisations in the creative and cultural industries sector. Our collective approach is to integrate entrepreneurship within the development of creative practices and to take a 'creative' approach to the development of new businesses and the infrastructure that supports them. This programme is designed to allow you to continue to innovate, but also to provide the requisite business/entrepreneurial skills and attributes to commercialise on your creative and cultural practices and/or knowledge. You’ll be able to build on a historical and theoretical understanding of cultural and creative industries and the development of a cultural economy to create your own creative initiatives, which might be research-based, policy-based, practise-based, or a combination of any or all of these.
What you study
The programme contains four taught courses and a further dissertation/portfolio component. You will have a range of choices throughout the degree enabling you to design a pathway that is most relevant to your academic, business and career ambitions. All students take 'Theories of the Culture Industry: Work, Creativity and Precariousness' and 'Entrepreneurial Modelling', and your chosen pathway will determine the 'Creative Practice' course and 'Entrepreneurial Practices and Modes of Production' course that you take. In order to enable collaborative learning amongst those seeking to develop creative and cultural businesses and those already within them, we intend wherever possible to teach all students together, irrespective of the particular route on which you are registered.
For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals. Successful applicants will normally hold, or expect to hold, a first degree at 2.1 level or higher (or its equivalent in the case of applicants from abroad) in an arts or humanities subject. There may be additional entrance requirements depending on the pathway you are interested in. You must demonstrate in your written application and in interview that you have a capacity for creative and cultural entrepreneurship, and that you are able to meet the intellectual demands of the programme. If your first language is not English you need a minimum score of 7.0 in IELTS (International English Language Testing System) or equivalent.
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Advice on courses and careers:-
The Creative Way IAG team provides a specialist service for anyone
interested in finding out about courses and careers in the creative and
cultural industries. We can provide information direct to Students,
Parents/ Carers, Tutors and Careers Advisers via email, phone or organised
workshops and 1 to 1 sessions.
To find out more, visit our IAG page on this site on
http://www.creativeway.org.uk/IAG Or contact one of our career advisers: Matt Ball 07889 001764
m.ball@uel.ac.uk or Sarah
Comerford 07515 051509
s.comerford@uel.ac.uk