Postgraduate Certificate/Postgraduate Diploma/MA
The MA in Media and Creative Enterprise is for creative thinkers and leaders in the future of multi-platform media and communications.
This innovative and interdisciplinary course will embrace the personal, local, digital, global and technological possibilities and platforms for media and creative enterprise. The course is for those thinking about how they can be creative in and with media and who want to develop their skills for the ‘real world’, with a much clearer understanding of how the media and creative industries function.
Graduates of this course will be prepared for their role as key creative leaders, thinkers and planners in the future of multi-platform media. You will be able to identify the possibilities and opportunities for innovative and entrepreneurial activities within and outside media and creative industries. You will be invited to approach your studies in ways that challenge, lead and shape the new media and creative enterprise economy that does not ignore its connectedness to people and places.
The delivery of the course draws upon a diverse but connected team of academics and industry experts of communications, digital creativity, journalism, animation, cultural studies, popular music, creative enterprise, film, television, radio, community media and the arts. It is closely aligned with the research and scholarly activity of the Faculty’s Research Centres.
The teaching will be through lectures, seminars and tutorials as well as practical workshops and workplace learning. There will be close links with the creative industries fostered by opportunities for students to take work placements, and through the involvement of industry practitioners in teaching, assessment, feedback and advice.
The course will involve active and participatory methods that both critique and apply theories and practices of media, creativity and enterprise. Indicative key areas of investigation will be the digital economy, global media corporations, rights management, community media, media advocacy, social enterprise, citizen journalism, viral marketing, open access and social networking. Students will produce an MA Project on a related subject that can be theoretical, theory/practice or professional in focus.
Some of our modules
- Media Theories
- Media and Creative Industries
- Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries
- Animated Media
- Community Media
- Global News and Communications
- Festivals Management
Staff Profile
Dr Joanne Garde-Hansen
Course Leader
Joanne is published in digital media creativity. Her edited collection Save As...Digital Memories (Palgrave, 2009) with Andrew Hoskins and Anna Reading has led to her forthcoming single author book Media and Memory (Edinburgh University Press). She researches digital storytelling, women and ageing, and media archives. She is director of the Research Centre for Media, Memory and Community and a co-researcher in the AHRC funded international network Women, Ageing and Media. She has led and co-led digital media projects with local schools, community groups, community-interest companies, arts and heritage establishments. She was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship in 2005, a Centre for Active Learning Fellowship in 2007 and an award for excellence in Public Engagement in 2009.
Benefits
- Working with published media academics and industry experts of media and creativity
- Includes theory/practice work in small-group environment
- Includes UK Skillset Media Academy accredited content
Career paths
- Creative Industries
- Research
- Arts Management
- Social Enterprise
- Communications Officer
Entry Requirements
Good undergraduate degree.
Location
The Park