Course summary
Please note: for September 2025 entry there is only Year 1 entry for this course. Please refer to our Media & Communications course (PP24) if you are looking for advanced entry onto Year 3. This course will give you the expertise to succeed in a wide variety of careers. You will learn about the creative and cultural industries landscape and develop the critical thinking and content creation skills that will set you up for a career in the exciting and thriving creative and cultural sectors. Creativity and culture play a vital role in our daily lives. Each day we engage in, or with, creativity and culture in some regard – uploading content to social media, attending the theatre, watching a TV show, attending a festival, or visiting a museum or gallery. Somewhere, at some point, a team of people conceived, produced, managed, and shared that creativity for us to experience. These people work in the creative and cultural industries. This course will encourage you to think critically about creativity and culture – what it is, how, when where and why it is produced and consumed. It will provide you with an in-depth understanding of the creative and cultural sectors and how they are shaped by other factors – such as technology, economics, cultural shifts, and crisis. With creative production and industry engagement intrinsic to the course, it will provide you with the industry networks and knowledge and practical creative production skills you need to become one of the creative leaders and producers of the future.
Modules
Year One Introduction to Creativity and Culture Media Production: Skills and Techniques Introduction to Theatre Production Media, Culture and Communication Industries Media Production: Video Project Creative Production: Digital Content Creation Year Two Creativity and Technology Digital Communication Campaigning Contemporary Scottish Theatre in Context Event Management Disruptions in the Media, Culture and Communication Industries Audiences, Engagement, Participations Year Three Working in the Film, Media, and Communications Sectors Arts Funding in its Policy Context Creative Production: Podcasting Designing a Research project Plus, two options Year Four Dissertation or Placement Planning and Marketing Cultural Projects The Business of Creativity Plus, two options Year Three and Four options may include: Advanced Theatre Production Communication, Arts and Activism Experiential Learning Placement Film and the Family Film Festivals Photography and Visual Culture Photography Practice Playwriting Popular Music Radio and Audio Media Reputation Issues and Crisis Management Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Screenwriting Site-specific Performance Student Initiated Module The Only Way is Ethics The Video Essay Video Production The modules listed here are correct at time of posting (Feb 2024) but may differ slightly to those offered in 2025. Please check back here for any updates.
Assessment method
You will be taught in lectures, seminars and in practical workshops. We have superb on-campus resources and media production equipment, including a recently upgraded film editing suite and dedicated production and photography area equipped with a green screen and on-site lighting equipment, plus a fully equipped studio theatre and construction workshop. You will be assessed in a wide array of ways across the course, including presentations, case studies, podcasts, blogs, videos, essays, video essays and some written exams.
Qualified teacher status (QTS)
To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:
- Course does not award QTS
How to apply
29Jan
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
- Course code:
- P902
- Institution code:
- Q25
- Campus name:
- Queen Margaret University
- Campus code:
- -
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
A level - BCC
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - MMM
Scottish Higher - BBBB
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 28 points
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017) - H2, H2, H3, H3
Scottish HNC - Pass
English language requirements
International: IELTS of 6.0 with no element lower than 5.5
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| Scotland | £1820 | Year 1 |
| England | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Republic of Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| International | £9250 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Students from England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Republic of Ireland: full-time Rest of UK fees will be charged for the first three years of study. The fourth year is free.
Provider information
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Queen Margaret University Drive
Musselburgh
Edinburgh
EH21 6UU