Creative Media Practice

MA Creative Media Practice

Delivery method: Part-time, e-Learning
Course Reference: MACMP

Course Overview

This course is developed and run by The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice

If you are a media practitioner working in the following industries and want to become a creative leader and initiator of change by developing your intellectual, practical and creative abilities, then this could be the Masters course for you:

• Broadcast Media
• Interactive Media
• Marketing
• PR & Journalism

Using the latest online technologies you will be able to negotiate study with your tutor ensuring that the outcomes are relevant to your needs, fashioning 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.

The course will give you:

• the intellectual tools and techniques to explore and develop your own professional practice;
• access to internationally respected experts who will be available to help you develop creatively;
• the support of a personal tutor who will work with you to tailor the course to make your work context the focus of the degree, and to help you solve the professional problems that matter to you;
• a community that connects you with other media professionals, so that you learn, research and solve problems alongside other people working in the creative industries;
• the understanding and confidence to take a lead in identifying, implementing, and communicating solutions both to current industry problems and to future threats and opportunities;

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. 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.

Why BU?

• Home to England's only Centre for Excellence in Media Practice
• The only Skillset Screen and Media Academy in England outside London
• Regular high profile guest lecturers such as Patrick Uden, Executive Producer of The Apprentice
• Work-based, flexible and available by distance learning
• Study in "Britain's coolest city" Harpers and Queen and "one of the liveliest places in Britain" The Times