Course summary
The MA Creative Practice is an interdisciplinary, studio-based course that empowers you to explore and develop your creative practice within a supportive, professionally focused environment. It integrates critical theory, research, entrepreneurship, and social purpose to help you define and realise your personal and professional ambitions. The course provides an opportunity to study at an advanced level through a creatively challenging, yet supportive and structured interdisciplinary learning framework and environment. You will: Extend your skills in ceramics, fashion, textiles, fine art, millinery, music and sound, and photography. Develop professional, communicative, reflective, analytical and critical skills. Further explore and investigate your creative practice. Learn about conceptual, contextual and critical perspectives. Study research methodologies required for successful creative practice. The course integrates scholarly study with creative and professional practice through knowledge transfer. You will: Learn how to apply your own creative processes and perspectives for a professional life within the business of creativity. Investigate a range of exciting professional opportunities for you and your work. Develop the professional tools to help you define and apply your creative ambitions, for example, in creating your own studio practice, working in the creative and cultural industries or utilising creativity for the good of society. The course introduces critical and contextual perspectives for creative practice, You'll explore social justice: diversity, inclusivity, environmental sustainability and the economic, technological, cultural and political impact of creative practice. Throughout the course you be an active part of an inspiring creative learning community. Through peer interaction and collaboration, you will be able to share and exchange ideas and inter-cultural thinking, this encourages cross-fertilisation across disciplines. You will have the opportunity to forge new creative processes and networks internally and externally. These interactions will help you to understand, interpret and articulate your work, helping you to nurture a self-realisation of your creative practice. As the course progresses, you will advance your own creative practice through further exploration and development. In the final phase of the course, you will be able to articulate your reflective practitioner skills and situate your practice through a final major project that will showcase the practical, contextual, conceptual, theoretical, research skills and critical contexts of your creative practice.
Modules
Module 1: Locating your Creative Practice. Module 2: Research Methods and Methodologies for Creative Practice Module 3: Contextual and Critical Perspectives for Creative Practice Module 4: Professional Life for Creative Practice Module 5: Situating your Creative Practice (FMP)
Assessment method
Interview Portfolio
Entry requirements
First, Upper Second Class or, in exceptional circumstances, a Lower Second-Class honours degree (or equivalent non-UK qualifications) in a relevant subject and or an internal student, or an equivalent professional qualification in a related subject area. We may consider applications from those with significant professional standing and expertise through our Recognition of Experiential Learning process. If you are applying directly from an undergraduate degree course without experience or professional practice, you must be able to demonstrate a good knowledge of your chosen subject area. Where an applicant’s first language is not English, proof of competence in English will be required. For undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, this will normally take the form of an approved English language test at B2 level in the Common European Framework of Reference.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £5374 | Whole course |
| Northern Ireland | £5374 | Whole course |
| Scotland | £5374 | Whole course |
| Wales | £5374 | Whole course |
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
You will need access to a laptop or PC to carry out independent study and complete assignments. Relevant textbooks and other learning materials will be required for the course; other course requirements and fee as follows:
Ceramics students: it is recommended that students have their own specialist creative tools and protective clothing in certain subjects such as ceramics and fine art. There is a £50 materials fee per trimester.
Fashion & textiles: access to a sewing machine at home for self-directed study is also required. There is a mandatory lab fee of £200 per year, payable in the first week of class. The fee supports access to inventory from our Materials Store for use in lessons and independent projects.
Fine Art: we provide a basic introductory package of materials free of charge, including paper, drawing materials, paint, printmaking inks and sculpture materials. We also have a shop onsite.
Millinery: students are asked to provide their own personal millinery sewing kits, which will include a combination of standard sewing equipment and some millinery-specific tools. Depending on the direction of a student’s work, equipment and materials will need to be individually sourced during the course.
Photography: you will need to own a DSLR, or mirrorless camera; a tripod would be recommended. Relevant textbooks and other learning materials will also be required for the course.
Provider information
Chelsea Centre for the Creative Industries
Hortensia Road
London
SW10 0QS
Course contact details
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