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Community Arts – (M.A.)
University of Cumbria
Faculty of the Arts| Application Deadline: | No deadline | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 3,598 - ≈ € 9,478 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Lancaster / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Cumbria
The course operates across the creative, visual and performing arts sector in a range of community contexts. This ensures cross-fertilisation of ideas and debates, in combination with the different experiences and perceptions that you and your fellow Masters students bring to the course. The theoretical dimension begins with definitions of community and evaluation of past practitioners. Communities can be defined by a fixed site or building - a cinema, theatre, library, museum, gallery, hospital, prison or school - or they can be non-fixed, even virtual - a community group, network or online community. You examine the tradition of community arts practice and expand your critical and practical abilities to work as a creative professional. The emphasis is on actual execution of arts activities and projects in communities across the North-West and beyond. In lectures, workshops, tutorials and seminars you study the community arts movement from its origins, through its growth in the 1960s to the present day, its key roles in social regeneration and place-making, and as a tool and critique of interventionist government programmes. The role of the public arts sector in policy development and delivery is examined and you learn skills such as fund-raising, project management and securing support.
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Study Pattern
Whether one year full-time or two years part-time, the course runs from September to September. The reason it runs beyond the academic year is to allow students more time to engage with their final practical project.
Assessment Type
Assessment methods range from traditional academic essays to presentations, research reports, running practical workshops and organising live community arts events.
What can the course lead to?
You may wish to work with schools, youth groups, community centres, hospitals or prisons. You may be interested in creating public artworks, starting a community newspaper, magazine or website, or making community films and documentaries. The opportunities available to you are very diverse.
Our Teaching Staff
Our Masters students benefit from excellent links with community artists and venues locally, regionally and internationally. The course team includes visiting speakers and staff who are practitioners with national reputations across the arts specialisms, from fine art to performance. The course leader, David Imrie, is a lecturer with over ten years´ experience and a researcher in the field of arts and urban regeneration.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
IELTS 6.5 or equivalent
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade A (Score: 80) |
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