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Master of Arts Creative Media
Creative Industries. Media Literacy. Cultural Politics. Knowledge Economy.
These phrases capture the transformations of our working and learning lives. The question is how can we use these ideas in our daily lives?
Every profession requires some understanding of the media. Yet increasingly, understanding is not enough. We need active citizens who will make the media more democratic, intelligent and passionately involved in the social problems, political fears and economic debates of our time.
Master of Arts Creative Media is an innovative programme offered at the University of Brighton, both on campus and through distance education. Creative Media is a description of what we teach and research, but also an agenda for future practice. We take the best elements from media education, creative industries, communication studies and literacy theory and offer students a suite of modules. This course, which is also available in shorter formats such as the Diploma of Creative Media and Graduate Certificate Creative Media, is customized to fit career goals, family and working patterns and personal interests.
Teaching, film making, photography, freelance writing, web design, music, fashion, tourism, content regulation and information management are emerging spheres of the new economy. As economies globalize and migrants move between the borders of nations, there is increasing competition for the best workers and the best ideas. Social responsibility and social inclusion in and through the media have crucial to ensure the health of our democracy.
Masters students have the opportunity to undertake a dissertation in their area of personal, career or research interest, supervised by experts in the emerging fields of cultural politics, media education and creative industries. This dissertation can be in form of either a conventional research document or a creative work – in visual or sonic media, or creative writing – along with a reflection on the creative project, called an exegesis.
Our aim is to enable students to move from where they are to where they want to be. We look forward to welcoming you to our Master of Arts (Creative Media). Please contact Professor Tara Brabazon (t.m.brabazon@brighton.ac.uk) with any queries.
The aims of the programme are:
1. To develop students’ capacity to understand, interpret and participate in debates about cultural policy, media literacy and the creative industries
2. To develop students’ understanding of cultural difference in and through the media
3. To develop an integrated palette of media skills that move beyond the simple determinations of old media and new media, analogue and digital media, theory and practice.
Modules on offer:
Compulsory module for Masters and Diploma students
Practising Media Research
Compulsory module for Masters students
Creative Media Dissertation/Creative Media Project
Module Pool (Masters students complete five of these modules. Diploma students complete five of these modules. Certificate students complete three of these modules)
Media Literacies
The Filmic Interview
Documentary Features Production
Media Access and Intervention
Teaching, learning and writing through popular culture
Sonic Media
Participatory Media Production for Social Change
Visual Memory
Mediating the Environment
Media Ethics
Qu(e)erying ICTs in Everyday Life
City Imaging
Developing Community Media