Creative Media

MA Creative Media

The aim of the course is to develop you as an artist/maker and to ensure you have the skills and imagination to produce challenging works based upon thoughtful reflection and innovative practice.

MA Creative Media is one of a suite of three taught Master’s degrees in art and design. As a student of art and design you will develop ideas and concepts to communicate with an audience – sometimes this is very obvious such as working towards an exhibition but at other times you may need to think hard about a niche audience for the work you develop. MA Creative Media takes this as a starting point for the design and development process, then works the concept through the appropriate media to test the ideas and analyse how the audience engage with the work.

Indicative subjects are:

Photography and Film
Computer Generated Imagery
Animation
Interactive Design

The course will guide you through essential knowledge taking in discussion and debate about current theories in art and design. The course investigates the key area of the aesthetic, psychological and cultural requirements of a target audience. You will learn how to manage research questions and develop them into actions and then you will learn to analyse and evaluate what has been achieved.

This MA course has been designed to bring together specialist practice areas sharing core principles of art and design theories with approaches to art and design practice. The concept behind the course is for skilled practitioners of art and design to advance their abilities and devise new and challenging applications for their knowledge.

Key facts

Course duration

Full-time
1 year working from September to September (3 days minimum in university and 2 further days private study per week)
Part-time
2 years working from September to June (1 day in university and a further day of private study per week)
Location: Wrexham
Start month: September

Career opportunities

Our aim is to produce innovative and independently active practitioners able to respond creatively to the needs of an audience or user group. We aim to ensure that our graduates have a portfolio of work and a range of skills which not only helps them to establish themselves as professional practitioners, but also enables them to seek
opportunity to work alongside other creatives in the pursuit of their objectives or fulfilment of their career objectives.

Course content

The course reflects the nature of the design industries which depend upon the ability to communicate between specialist areas of practice.

Entry requirements

You should normally have gained a good honours degree in a relevant subject but applications are considered from those with sufficient evidence of experience in the subject to equate to this award.

Assessment

At the end of each major stage of the course your work will be assessed. Other feedback on your progress can be gathered through critiques, seminars, peer review and individual feedback through tutorials with subject staff.

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