Core Structure and Optional Modules
The MA Cultural and Creative Industries (MA CCI) requires students to take three compulsory taught modules (each worth 20 credits), a compulsory dissertation (worth 60 credits), and three optional modules (each worth 20 credits). Students thus accumulate the necessary 180 credits to pass the degree.
Normally part-time students would take the core taught modules and one optional module in year one and the two remaining optional modules and dissertation in year two. This should be discussed with the Course Director to take account of individual circumstances.
Compulsory Modules
20 credits each
Semester One
Contested Culture: Formations
Semester Two
Analysing the Cultural & Creative Industries
Full Year
Research Approaches for the Cultural and Creative Industries
Optional Modules
20 credits each
Any Semester
Internship (selective entry)
Semester One
Cultural Policy
Music and American Culture
Art of Management: Management of Art
Inside Today's Museum: Tate Modern (selective entry)
Culture and Commerce
Digital Industries and Internet Culture
“Creatives”: Working in the Cultural Industries
Gender, Media and Culture (Not available 2011-2012)
Semester Two
The Creative City
Contextualising Creativity
Towards Tomorrow's Museum: Tate Modern (selective entry)
Cultural Markets
Youth Subcultures
Fashion, Culture and Society
Bodies and Identities in Digital Media
Visual Culture
Film and American Culture (Not available 2011-12)
Dissertation
60 Credits
Written during the summer
Please note
Not all options will be available every year, and not all options will run if there is insufficient demand. In order to keep class sizes small, enrolment in all options is limited and so first choices cannot be guaranteed. Entry into the internship module is selective as it involves a large level of commitment and makes greater overall demands on students’ time than do the 20 credit taught options. Finally, it may be possible to take certain MA modules in programmes and departments outside the MA CCI but which still count towards the degree.