The Media School

MA Creative Media Practice

The MA Creative Media Practice has been designed for professionals in the creative industries who have been working for at least 2 years.

The course, delivered over 15 months, is for professionals who are unable to attend university face-to-face, who are in full-time, part-time or freelance employment and who will benefit from an alternative approach to learning. Using the latest online technologies, it allows you to negotiate study with your tutor ensuring that the outcomes are relevant to your needs, and to fashion the course to suit your personal requirements within your own work environment.

The course aims to enhance your professional practice so that projects you are involved with at work form part of the evidence for a postgraduate qualification. Thus, your work time contributes to the requirements of the course and what you learn immediately improves your working practice.

Professional
"A course for professionals who are unable to attend university face-to-face"

The course is broken into 3 phases:

Retrospective - Identify the key incidents of change that have helped to shape your industry. Reflect upon and evaluate your professional experience as a creative practitioner.

Current Practice - Identify, develop, produce and evaluate effective and innovative solutions to current professional and/or technical issues and challenges in your specific discipline. Communicate your solutions to an audience of your peers.

Future Developments and Opportunities - Take a lead in identifying some of the future threats and opportunities in your production area/ discipline. Then produce and test solutions and new ways of working. Exhibit your findings and debate them with your colleagues, potential users and your tutors.

Flexible
"Fashion the course to suit your personal requirements"

You will answer the following types of questions with our support:

What were the key moments of creative change in the history of my particular discipline?
What are my personal strengths and weaknesses? And how do I innovate in my current practice, and prepare myself for new leadership roles?
What are some of the most pressing issues in my current work practice, and what solutions can I produce?
What are key threats and opportunities in the future of my discipline? How will developments in technology affect my industry? How do I ensure I am ready to deal with these new challenges? What new practices will I need to develop?

You will leave with a postgraduate qualification, and perhaps more importantly a portfolio of work which demonstrates that you are a master of your discipline.

Portfolio
"Create a portfolio of work which demonstrates that you are a master of your discipline "

You will be confident of your own work as a creative practitioner, you will have proposed and implemented solutions to some current problems, and you will also be well placed to avoid future threats in your area and to take full advantage of future creative opportunities. The course culminates in an exhibition to your peers. This celebration of your work moves away from the traditional dissertation - that is read only by the student and the tutor - to an event which makes a significant impact on the working practices of you and your colleagues.

We are looking for media practitioners who want to become creative leaders and initiators of change by developing their intellectual, practical and creative abilities. If this sounds like you please contact us on:

Laura Hampshaw- Course Administrator
The Media School Bournemouth University Weymouth House Talbot Campus Poole Dorset, BH12 5BB	Email: laura@cemp.ac.uk Website: www.creativedesk.me.uk Tel: +44 (0)1202 965646