MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries

Master

In City of London

£ 9,225 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    City of london

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Mode of Attendance: Full-time or Part-time
Who is this programme for?:
Students will likely fall into two types. The first group will typically be interested in pursuing careers as practitioners, managers, consultants, policy advisers and entrepreneurs in the creative and cultural industries in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Such students will typically take advantage of the potentials to hone practical/core skills, to develop their knowledge base about creative and cultural industries in a global context, and to maximise the ‘Directed Study in Industry’ opportunity.
The second group will typically be more concerned with developing academic research in the creative and cultural sectors, and the intersections between industry, cultural policy and international development. Such students will most likely concentrate their programme of study on the regional and theoretical courses available.
The MA, then, is suitable for those seeking employment as practitioners, managers, consultants, policy advisers and entrepreneurs in the creative and cultural industries, and for those who aspire to a Research degree.
Over the past decades the creative and cultural industries have become the focus of a huge amount of research and critical debate. As digitisation transforms the media industries, from music streaming to on-demand TV, there has been an increasing recognition of the economic and cultural value of art, museums, video games and 'heritage'. This programme offers the unique opportunity to critically analyse these developments in a fully global context, across the full range of School of Arts modules in Media, Music and Art and Archaeology..
Students can tailor their studies to focus on particular regions, art forms or themes, choosing from the wide array of modules that reflect the unique regional focus available at SOAS, and gain access to world-leading experts on the music, culture and traditions of Africa, the Middle East and Asia

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Subjects

  • Part Time
  • Industry
  • International
  • Cinema
  • Politics
  • IT
  • Communication Skills
  • Sound
  • Broadcasting
  • Art
  • Global
  • School
  • Media
  • Music
  • Sound Recording
  • Music Business
  • Cultural
  • Intercultural awareness
  • Gender Theory
  • Screen Studies
  • Cultural Industries
  • Global Creative
  • Curating Cultures
  • Creative

Course programme

Programme Specification

Students must complete 120 credits of MA taught modules in addition to the compulsory dissertation (60 credits).


The formal elements of the MA in Global Creative and Cultural Industries are:

  • The two compulsory modules Analytical Approaches to the Global Creative and Cultural Industries (15 credits) and the Dissertation in Global Creative and Cultural Industries (60 credits). The Dissertation will be on a topic relating to the creative and cultural industries. It may either be on a theoretical topic or developed from the (below) "pathway" chosen by the student, and its has the option to incorporate multimedia materials.
  • Student must select a compulsory "pathway" module to the value of 15 credits from the Art, Music or Media pathway lists below. These modules allow students to develop their expertise in a chosen "pathway".
  • Student must select modules to the value of 45 credits from any available modules from the School of Arts but with recommendation for skills and internship modules from the list below. Practical skills modules can be chosen in multimedia (film/editing),sound recording and digital and broadcasting communications; while optional one of these module will be required if a student elects to take the optional 15 credits module Directed Study in Industry but lacks appropriate training on entry. This module allows students to undertake an internship with an institution, organisation or enterprise.
  • Student must also select modules to the value of 45 credits from the list of recommended options approved by the Programme Convenor, listed below. Please note that not all option modules may run every year.

Students may be allowed to study for the MA on a part-time basis.

  • The part-time MA may be taken over two years, in which case the student takes two 30 credits modules (or equivalent 15 credits modules) in the first year, and two 30 credits modules (or equivalent 15 credits modules) and the dissertation in the second year.
  • Alternatively, it can be taken over three years, in which case the student can distribute the 120 credits modules evenly in each of the three years. The dissertation can be written in year two or three, but it is strongly recommended that this be undertaken in the final year of the programme. It must be submitted in September of the year in which the student registers for it.

Compulsory Modules
  • Analytical Approaches to the Global Creative and Cultural Industries
  • Dissertation in Global Creative and Cultural Industries
Music Pathway Module
  • The Music Business (Masters)
Art Pathway Modules
  • Contemporary Art and the Global
Media Pathway Modules
  • Studies in Global Digital Cultures
  • Topics in Global Digital Cultures
Skills and Internship Modules
  • Curating Cultures Cohort A
  • Curating Cultures Cohort C
  • Digital traditional broadcasting communication
  • Directed Study in Industry
  • Sound Recording and Production
Optional Modules
  • Arab Painting
  • Art and Architecture of the Fatimids
  • Arts and Society in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Arts of Modern and Contemporary China (since 1800)
  • The Story of African Film: Narrative Screen Media in Africa
  • Asia and Africa On Display: Objects, Exhibitions and Transculturism
  • Aspects of African film and video 2
  • Aspects of Music and Religion in South East Asia
  • Censoring Japan: A Socio-Cultural History of Japanese Television
  • Cinema, Nation and Transcultural Asia
  • Contemporary Art and the Global
  • Critical Theory in Art History and Material Culture
  • Cross-Cultural Approaches to Aesthetics
  • Culture and Society of West Africa
  • Culture and Society of East Africa
  • Culture and Society of Japan
  • Culture and Society of South Asia
  • Culture and Society of South East Asia
  • Culture and Society of China
  • Curating Cultures Cohort A
  • Curating Cultures Cohort C
  • Culture and Society of Near and Middle East
  • Curating Africa: African Film and Video in the Age of Festivals
  • Diaspora Contexts and Visual Culture
  • Gender and Music (MMus)
  • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film
  • Indian Cinema: Its History and Social Context
  • Indian Cinema: Key Issues
  • Indian vocal music: Styles and histories
  • International Political Communication
  • Islam and the West: Artistic and Cultural Contacts
  • Issues in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art
  • Japanese Ceramics Past and Present
  • Japanese Post-War Film Genres and the Avant-Garde
  • Japanese Television since 1953
  • Japanese Transnational Cinema: From Kurosawa to Asia Extreme and Studio Ghibli
  • Klezmer Music: Roots and Revival
  • Media Spectacle and Urban Space in East Asia
  • Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics and Communications
  • Modern and Contemporary Korean Art
  • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese Diaspora
  • Music and Healing
  • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (MA)
  • Music in Development
  • Music on the Silk Road: travel and circulation (PG)
  • Music, Place and Politics in Cuba
  • Musical Traditions of East Asia (Masters)
  • Painting and Visual Culture in China
  • Photography and the Image in Africa
  • Perspectives On Development
  • Pop and Politics in East Asia (Masters)
  • Popular and Fusion Music in South East Asia (PG)
  • (Post) Colonialism and Otherness in South East Asia on Screen
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Raga: concept and practice (PG)
  • Sacred Sound in South Asia
  • Theoretical and Contemporary Issues in Global Media and Post-National Communication
  • Studies in Media, Information Communication Technologies and Development
  • The Art of the African Diaspora
  • Theoretical Approaches to International Journalisms
  • Transnational Communities and Diasporic Media:Networking, Connectivity, Identity
  • Understanding Art East and West: from Asmat Shields to Tate Modern

This is the structure for 2018/19 applicants

If you are a current student you can find structure information on Moodle or through your Department.

Programme Specification
  • MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries: Programme Specifications-2017-18 (pdf; 68kb)
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MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries

£ 9,225 + VAT