Looking to further your career within the creative industries? Solent’s innovative and transmedia MA Critical Creative Practice programme focuses on individual student-centred learning and encourages critical creative practice across the creative spectrum, including art, design, fashion, photography, media arts and technology, helping to enhance employability and leaving you well-prepared to progress within your chosen creative field.
Taught by both creative industry professionals and academic practitioners, the course enables students to develop ideas and engage with the emerging material and digital cultures of the future, as well as the fast-changing demands of the creative industries and the associated changes to cultural production, consumption and interpretation.
The course structure is theory and practice based. The theoretical element consists of critical core units which reference visual culture, cultural theory, critical theory, art and design history, media culture, and material and digital culture. The interdisciplinary practice element relates to creative practice in the fields of art, design, fashion, photography, media arts and technology.
The integration of theory and practice is central to the course and learning is carefully structured through these interdependent units to develop a broad base of interrelated experiences, whilst also providing the opportunity to specialise through the professional practice unit and the choice of final dissertation or final project.
Students will also have the opportunity to take optional technician-supported introductory workshops which could include contemporary arts practice, photography, new media practice, 3D printing and laser cutting, material manipulation, performance, beauty and the body, film editing, and sound and image production. To complement their studies, students may be able to take part in international and European study exchange opportunities through the University’s study abroad programmes.
The unique approach of this course can enhance employability, enabling students to progress into the workplace equipped with valuable critical thinking and practice-based skills required for working in the creative industries and forming innovative hybrid engagements.
This course has access to Solent’s specialist facilities.
Students can gain interdisciplinary expertise in the fields of contemporary arts practice (material and digital), film and digital media arts, fashion collaborations, sound and installation art, photography, critical writing, writing as creative practice and curation.
What does this course lead to?
Graduates from this course will be well-placed for careers in a broad range of the creative industries, such as art, design, media, film, fashion, photography, education, culture and heritage, and curation.
Who is this course for?
This course is well-suited to graduates who wish to further their career within the creative industries by gaining a solid understanding of creative practice and critical thinking across a broad range of disciplines.
Web-based learning
Solent’s virtual learning environment provides quick online access to assignments, lecture notes, suggested reading and other course information.
The Student Hub
The Student Hub is a central space where you can access all of the information and support you need during your time at University.
Professional and experienced staff can help resolve any query, and if they cannot answer the question themselves they will find the person who can.
Facilities
Solent University provides a well-resourced environment to help students develop and harness enterprising and entrepreneurial practice. Students on this course have access to dedicated studio space to develop their individual creative practice. Other creative spaces and equipment available to students include photographic studios, fashion studios, Mac rooms, recording equipment, editing suites, and performance and exhibition space.
Solent is also home to a 24-hour library, modern IT facilities and a range of expert learning and employability support services.
The course delivers a taught programme of critical and theoretical teaching which references cultural theory, visual culture, critical theory, history, media culture and material and digital culture. Individual selection of either: Dissertation, Dissertation and Practice or a Practice based outcome.
