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Creative Practice at Leeds Arts University - UCAS

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Course summary

This course is devised for creative practitioners, recent art graduates and professionals who wish to examine, strengthen and deepen their practice within their own context. If you are a fine artist, designer, performer, creative writer, or have an interest in developing your practice for the creative industries, this course is for you. MA Creative Practice encourages you to pursue an individual creative research interest for the duration of your study, allowing you to examine and strengthen your own practice and place it at the centre of your studies in a transdisciplinary learning context. You will be encouraged to maintain contact with other creative practitioners and develop freelance or other creative career paths within a portfolio career. This course will also support and prepare you to develop ideas for application to a practice-based PhD. The aim is to encourage a deeper conceptual and practical understanding of process, method, technique, tools and materiality through scholarship and critical engagement with theoretical creative practice contexts.


Entry requirements

Our postgraduate minimum requirements are: • A 2:2 undergraduate UK honours degree or international equivalent or; • A degree-equivalent postgraduate diploma/professional qualification. Applicants who hold a degree from another discipline or have experiential learning in lieu of a degree may also be considered for entry via the Recognition of Prior Learning process (RPL). - Examples of work For all postgraduate courses you will need: • To set up your portal • You will then be asked to submit a maximum of six examples of work from your portfolio for consideration. The files should be no larger than 30MB in total and it is essential that no more than six examples of work are uploaded. • One reference to support your application. This may be from an academic or a creative practitioner. Applicants who meet the entry requirements above will be required to submit a personal statement outlining their intentions for MA study. - Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) If you’re over the age of 21 and don’t have traditional qualifications, we may be able to consider your relevant experience as well as your educational background through the Recognition of Prior Learning process (RPL). Where experience is being presented in lieu of academic achievement applicants must be able to demonstrate substantive experience, for example employment in a related industry. Your application form should provide as much information as possible for consideration by our admissions department. Following receipt of your application the admissions team may ask you for further information. You may also be asked to attend an informal interview.


English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6.5No individual component below 5.5.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

EU £18000* Whole course
England £9700* Whole course
Northern Ireland £9700* Whole course
Scotland £9700* Whole course
Wales £9700* Whole course
International £18000* Whole course

*This is a provisional fee and subject to change.

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

Home graduates progressing from BA (Hons) at Leeds Arts University within the last three years will qualify for a £1,000 alumni discount. International fee-paying students directly progressing from a Leeds Arts University undergraduate degree course to a Leeds Arts University postgraduate degree course will qualify for the International Progression Award. This is a tuition fee reduction of 10% per year.
Creative Practice at Leeds Arts University - UCAS