Cultural & Creative Industries

Course detail Description

Cultural & Creative Industries is a unique interdisciplinary course that draws on cultural theories, cultural history, digital culture, management, screen studies, geography, cultural policy, gender and fashion. This exciting and contemporary course also makes use of our links with and proximity to Tate Modern, Southbank Centre and the British Film Institute.

If you are seeking a career in the arts or creative industries, or if you are a professional looking to enhance your existing knowledge and career prospects, then this course is ideally suited for you. You can also use the training and skills we will give you to prepare for doctoral research in culture, media and creative industries. However, you should bear in mind that this is not a traditional media, communications or journalism studies course. If you want to follow a career in these areas, this course will only be relevant in so far as your interests relate specifically to the cultural and creative industries, such as performing and visual arts, cultural heritage, film, games and music.

Teaching
If you are a full-time student, we will provide 140 hours of teaching through lectures and seminars, and we will expect you to undertake 1,674 hours of independent study.

If you are a part-time student, we will provide 90 hours of teaching through lectures and seminars in your first year, and 50 hours in your second year. We will expect you to undertake 720 hours of independent study in your first year, and 954 hours in your second.

Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.

Assessment
We assess our modules through a combination of essays and coursework. Your dissertation will account for a third of your final grade.

Regulating body
King's College London is regulated by the Office for Students.

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Structure

Year 1

Course are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.

You are required to take:

• Analysing the Cultural & Creative Industries (40 credits)
• Research Approaches (20 credits)

Choose one of the following:

• Dissertation (MA Cultural & Creative Industries) (60 credits)

or

• Arts-Based Research Project (60 credits)

In addition you are required to take 60 modules from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

• The Aesthetic Economy (20 credits)
• Children, Media Industries & Culture (20 credits)
• Collecting Cultures (20 credits)
• Contextualising Creativity (20 credits)
• Cultural & Creative Industries in China (20 credits)
• Cultural Management in Small Arts & Cultural Organisations (20 credits)
• Cultural Markets (20 credits)
• Cultural Memory (20 credits)
• Cultural Policy (20 credits)
• Culture: Conflict, Diplomacy & International Relations (20 credits)
• Digital Media Production Cultures (20 credits)
• Entertainment Industries (20 credits)
• Entrepreneurial Opportunity: Arts & Culture (20 credits)
• Exhibitions, Identities and Politics (20 credits)
• Fashion, Culture & Society (20 credits)
• Festivals: Arts, Public Spaces & Communities (20 credits)
• Film & American Culture (20 credits)
• Future Memory: Creating Connected Worlds (20 credits)
• Gender, Media & Culture (20 credits)
• Inside Today’s Museum (20 credits)
• International Heritage & Cultural Tourism (20 credits)
• Media on the Move: Products & Power (20 credits)
• Museum Curating Now (20 credits)
• Music & American Culture (20 credits)
• Towards Tomorrow’s Museum (20 credits)
• Transnational Screen Production (20 credits)
• Visual Culture (20 credits)

For more info visit our module pages.

If you are a part-time student, you will take Analysising the Cultural and Creative Industries (40 credits) along with 40 credits from our list of optional modules. In your second year, you will take Research Approaches (20 credits) and either the Dissertation or Arts-based Research Project modules (60 credits), along with 20 further credits of optional modules.

You may choose 20 credits of modules from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Modern Language Centre, subject to approvals.

You may also choose from a range of modules from the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy (notably the Department of Education & Professional Studies, and Department of Management), or the School of Law, subject to approvals.

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.