Course summary

The media and creative industries need multi-disciplinary skills, such as the ability to tell a story and use technology as a tool to take fresh ideas forward. If you want to determine your own path and collaborate with world-class media and creativity researchers alongside industry leaders then this course is designed to give you the knowledge, skills and aptitude for these diverse and exciting industries that are growing all over the world. This course will move you through the foundations of theory and practice to focus on developing creative ideas. Having explored the breadth of the media and creative industries regionally, nationally and globally, you will then be able to follow your creative practice through lab work, collaboration and in response to industry briefs. You will be supported in your outward facing portfolio of creative work. In your second and third years, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the media and creative industries. Within the framework of our research-led expertise on media, creativity, communication and cultural production, we offer innovative and dynamic teaching, technology and practice-led learning and assessment, with a strong focus on creativity and collaboration. The Centre’s vibrant extracurricular culture (alongside Theatre and Performance Studies, Creative Writing, Film and Television and History of Art) means you will be surrounded by many others who share your passion for media and creativity or see themselves managing and leading creative people to pioneer new ways of communicating. You will emerge from your course more entrepreneurial, more skilled, able to deliver on creative ideas while ensuring you are critical, well-researched and self-reflexive.