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Creative Writing & the Creative Economy – (M.A.)
Kingston University
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 8,490 - ≈ € 13,650 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Kingston University
The UK´s media sector is extremely successful worldwide. For example, our advertising market is rated as the fourth largest in the world, producing world-class TV formats and output. Our publishing industry covers a complete range of printed and leading-edge digital applications.
If you are currently employed in or would like to develop a career in the media, the Creative Writing and the Creative Economy course is ideal. It will develop your creative skills while also giving you an overview of how to manage the industry effectively within the creative economy.
Creative Writing and the Creative Economy MA is part of the media portfolio of 'Creative Industries' courses. Kingston´s unique Creative Industries courses provide an unusual mix of creative and business skills. They recognise that the creative economy is populated by individuals with a wealth of different yet complementary skills and experience.
Creating value in the creative economy is a dynamic process that cannot be taken by individual 'creatives' on their own. This exciting new programme offers the opportunity to explore this dynamic and build valuable networks for future careers.
The course aims to hone your workplace skills, including:
* communication (oral, written and electronic);
* time management;
* data collation, review and synopsis;
* computing; and
* co-operation and teamwork.
The dissertation or innovative project allows you to develop your own interests and gain valuable research skills. You can choose an area relevant to your own career needs and aspirations.
Contents
In Part 1 of your course, you will study with students from across all the Creative Industries programmes. In Part 2 of your course, you will study alongside fellow students who have opted to work towards the same specialist discipline.
Part 1: core modules
* Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship in Practice
This corner-stone module provides you with 'hands on' experience of life in the creative economy through working together to create, design and manage a viable creative enterprise project.
This creative project will form the context for subsequent learning throughout the course.
* Managing Creativity and Innovation
This module aims to develop your entrepreneurial management behaviours, encouraging an approach to learning that copes with and enjoys uncertainty, risks and complexity.
The core curriculum of this module will underpin the knowledge and skills required for The Creative Economy module.
* Leadership in the Creative Economy
This module encourages you to learn experientially about leadership through performance and develop conceptual understanding of creative leadership and how it differs from more traditional approaches.
Where appropriate, you will apply your learning to leadership roles in the creative project developed within The Creative Economy module.
* Contemporary Issues in the Creative Economy
This module offers a range of optional learning experiences to complement the three core modules above. These include areas such as:
* consultancy practice;
* cross-cultural management communication;
* creativity and consumption; and
* critical appraisal of the creative economy.
Specific learning outcomes for each student will be agreed with the course director, and may involve taught sessions, work-based learning, or a mixture of both.
Part 2: specialist modules
* Elements of Professional Writing I
This module provides the opportunity to write across three genres – including prose, poetry and playwriting – to teach you how to apply literary techniques from other forms to your own work. It will look at:
* issues of voice, imagery, tone and characterisation;
* elements of narrative, dramatic and lyrical forms; and
* contemporary works – allowing you to master structure and style and understand how a variety of literary forms function.
You will also submit a portfolio of writing exercises in the different genres studied.
* Writers' Workshop
In this module you present and discuss your own and other students' work in a weekly workshop. The draft work you present may include several genres and forms, including:
* crime writing;
* fantasy fiction;
* children's literature;
* historical fiction;
* science fiction;
* romance; and
* autobiography.
Alongside practical criticism of student writing, you will discuss:
* the scope or constraints of the various genres;
* the implications of particular forms; and
* the relevant components of good writing, including appropriate use of language, narrative pace, dialogue, expression, characterisation and mood.
Part 3: personal project (choose one)
* Dissertation
Your dissertation will focus on your specialist interest in advertising and will be relevant to your own career needs and aspirations.
Under the supervision of Kingston's qualified staff, it will be designed to connect you directly with current practice and will enhance your employability.
* Innovative Project
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
We usually expect applicants to have:
- a second class degree or above in a relevant area and/or two years´ work experience in the creative industries;
- an understanding of the context of the creative economy; and
- the ability to rationalise why this course will be of value to them personally.
- International students must have an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent
We also carefully consider non-standard entrants with relevant personal and work experience who can demonstrate the interest, commitment and ability required to undertake this course successfully.
Personal statement
All applicants should demonstrate their understanding of the context of the creative economy in their personal statement, plus how the course will be of value to them personally.
Interviews
We normally invite applicants for this course to an interview with the course director and/or the subject leader. International students based overseas can arrange for an interview by email or telephone.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
Accreditation
Many of the courses that we run are accredited and recognised by relevant professional bodies within their respective fields. As part of our commitment to providing quality, relevant courses we seek accreditation and recognition wherever possible. In fact the Higher Education Funding Council of England awarded us a quality rating for 'Excellence in teaching'.
Kingston Business School is also one of an elite number of UK business schools with Association of MBA accreditation of our MBA courses. Plus we have received EPAS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development for several of our postgraduate and undergraduate business programmes; only the second UK business school to receive this accreditation.
To view a full list of our accreditations, please visit our website.
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