Creative, Digital and Professional Writing - MA

Postgraduate

In London

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Year

On our Creative, Digital and Professional Writing MA, you’ll develop an advanced variety of writing skills suitable for a wide range of professional settings and literary modes.

We’ll help you develop your own creative ideas so you can thrive in creative roles such fiction and nonfiction writer or editor. It will also open up career opportunities in industries including media, journalism, film, publishing, e-books, marketing and communications.

Making use of the University's £100,000 newsroom and with the support of our award-winning staff and guest lecturers from the world of digital writing and editing, you'll develop an understanding of the demands and opportunities of a professional writing career.

You'll also benefit from field trips that will fire your imagination, as well as work placements in some of the prestigious media organisations based in London. Our students have gained work experience at Harper Collins, The Sunday Times, Harper's Bazaar UK, BBC, leading health magazines and websites and many more.

This flourishing course is part of our internationally recognised School of Art, Architecture and Design, a thriving hub of the creative arts; you will have access to the rich array of exhibitions, talks, installations, lectures and performances that take place regularly in the School. We're based in central London and students are encouraged and helped to make full use of the city's remarkable range of cultural and artistic events and programmes. Our students come to us from around the world, as well as the UK – we currently have students from the USA, India, Ireland, Italy and South Africa; this diversity creates a rich creative mix.

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Location

Start date

London
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31 Jewry Street, EC3N 2EY

Start date

On request

About this course

Do you want to earn a living from your love of writing? London Met’s Creative, Digital and Professional Writing MA will help you develop your creative writing abilities and train you in the multimedia and digital skills required by professional writers working in the creative industries. You'll be taught by award-winning professionals with the skills, contacts and industry profiles to help you develop your own distinctive and individual writing voice that will be attractive to employers.

a 2:2 UK degree or equivalent (a relevant professional qualification or experience will also be considered)
two contrasting writing samples of 750 words each ready for submission

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Subjects

  • English Language
  • IT
  • Multimedia
  • Creative Writing
  • English
  • Advertising
  • Project
  • Industry
  • Writing
  • Communication Training
  • Media
  • Production
  • Professional Writing

Course programme

Modular structure

The modules listed below are for the academic year 2020/21 and represent the course modules at this time. Modules and module details (including, but not limited to, location and time) are subject to change over time.

Year 1 modules include:
  • Creative Writing (core, 20 credits)
  • Creative, Digital and Professional Writing Project / Dissertation (core, 60 credits)
  • Digital Storytelling (core, 20 credits)
  • Feature Journalism (core, 20 credits)
  • Researching Media, Communication and the Creative Industries (core, 20 credits)
  • Accredited Work-Based Learning in the Creative Industries (option, 20 credits)
  • Creative Nonfiction (option, 20 credits)
  • Curatorial Writing (option, 20 credits)
  • Digital Video Production (option, 20 credits)
  • Multimedia Journalism (option, 20 credits)
  • Principles of Digital Media (option, 20 credits)
  • Routes into Publishing (option, 20 credits)
  • Scriptwriting (option, 20 credits)
Assessment

You'll be assessed through assignments, coursework, media artefacts and portfolios made up of original written, visual and audio work. We encourage you to work to professional standards and produce polished portfolios that you can submit to editors and other media organisations.

Creative, Digital and Professional Writing - MA

Price on request