Modules

The Integrated Master's Combined Arts: Creativity (Online) is perfect for storytellers, makers, and imaginative thinkers. This online Combined Arts degree is structured around a broad learning experience, drawing on diverse academic fields, meaning that you will graduate with discipline-specific skills for the creative industries, but also with an ability to grapple with complex challenges through a transdisciplinary lens. This course uses a problem-based learning approach. Supported by your tutors, you’ll be given challenges alongside the resources and tools to solve or meet them. You decide your own learning boundaries and are supported to make yours an exciting, and effective learning experience. Year One The first year of the Integrated Master’s Combined Arts focuses on development of core skills that you’ll need throughout your studies. These will be developed as you progress through the programme. You will be introduced to problem-based learning, how it works and the benefits to you as a learner, and you will build your confidence in managing your own self-directed study under the guidance of your tutors. This first year covers themes such as study skills, sustainability, communication and organisation, and is the solid foundation on which you’ll build advanced skills and with that, your own creative practice. Modules: The Art of Problem-Based Learning Places and Spaces: Community, Identity and Change Visualise and Innovate: Creative Problem-Solving Transformations: Imagining Community Spaces Year Two The second year of this Combined Arts Integrated Master's builds on the first and continues the focus on building a first-rate personal creative skillset. The year ahead covers advanced creative practice, analytical skills and collaborative working, as well as themes of inclusivity and wellbeing in creative practice to give you a resilient future in the creative industries. This year becomes the creative space to engage with more advanced skills and refine your research, ethical and analytical skills that will underpin your developing creative practice. Modules: Collaboration The Creative Cultural Sphere The Entrepreneurial Creative Future Skills Creativity Unbound: Perspectives and Voices on Nature and Place Final Major Project Year Three The third and final year (Level 7) of the Combined Arts Integrated Master’s has an increased focus on refining and developing your personal research practice using problem-based learning examples, to help drive learning and skill development, in line with a master’s level programme. As the problems get more complex, you will stretch your skills to meet that complexity, and in doing so, grow into a unique citizen-graduate. Modules: Research Skills as the Foundation of Success Practice Research by Researching Practice Sustainable Strategies The Multifaceted Art of Storytelling Final Major Project.

Assessment method

100% of your assessment will be coursework. There are no exams on this course. Assessment methods may include:

• Videos, presentations, visual work and written assignments

• In the final year of your undergraduate studies, you’ll complete a supervised Final Major Project as a reflection of your first two years of learning