Teaching & modules
Modules
Course are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.
Required modules
- Analysing the Cultural & Creative Industries: Theories, Definitions, Debates (30 credits)
- Analysing the Cultural & Creative Industries: Policies, Creativity, Labour (30 credits)
Research Approaches and Dissertation (60 credits) choosing from the following:
- Traditional Dissertation
- Collaborative Dissertation with Cultural Partner
- Creative Research Project
Optional modules
In addition, you are required to take 60 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:
- Collecting Cultures: Managing Collections in Museums and Collecting Organisations (15 credits)
- Exhibitions, Identities and Politics: in Museums and other Exhibiting Organisations (15 credits)
- Cultural Policy (15 credits)
- Work in the Creative Economy (15 credits)
- Contextualising Creativity (15 credits)
- Culture and the City (15 credits)
- Cultural Markets (15 credits)
- The Aesthetic Economy and Aesthetic Markets (15 credits)
- Art and Globalisation (15 credits)
- Readings of the Music Business (15 credits)
- International Heritage – Cultural Tourism (15 credits)
- Entertainment Industries (15 credits)
- Children, Media Industries and Culture (15 credits)
- Future Memory: Creating Connected Worlds (15 credits)
- Gender and Sexualities in East Asian Media (15 credits)
- Immersive Media and Extended Realities (15 credits)
- The Entrepreneurial Opportunity - Arts and Culture (selective entry) (15 credits)
- Festivals: Arts, Public Spaces and Community (15 credits)
- Gender, Media and Culture (15 credits)
- Cultural Memory (15 credits)
- Conflict, Diplomacy and International Relations (15 credits)
- Gaming Industries and Cultures (15 credits)
- Transnational Screen Cultures; Fashion Culture & Society (15 credits)
- Fashion, Culture and Society (15 credits)
You may choose a maximum of 30 credits of modules from other departments within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and the King’s Language Centre, or, exceptionally, 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.
If you are a part-time student, you will take the two required Analysing the Cultural & Creative Industries modules (60 credits in total) in your first year, along with one or two optional modules (15 / 30 credits in total). In your second year, you will take Research Approaches and Dissertation module (60 credits), along with two or three optional modules (30 / 45 credits in total). Students are required to take 60 credits of optional modules across the two years.
Teaching methods - what to expect
This is a one-year full-time course (two years part-time) comprises modules totalling 180 credits. Your required modules provide a foundation for the master’s, and the diverse optional modules on offer will appeal to a wide range of interests, as well as giving you the opportunity to discover new areas of study. Alongside taught lectures, seminars and workshops in semesters one and two, you will be expected to undertake additional hours of self-study each week. In semester three, you will be expected to devote approximately 600 hours of independent study to your MA dissertation project, for which we will provide supervision guidance.
Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.
Assessment
- Written assignment
- Video essays
- Reports
- Individual or group projects and presentations
- Proposals
- Reviews
- Dissertation
- Collaborative and creative research projects
Students are assessed through coursework. Forms of assessment may typically include written and video essays, reports, individual and group presentations, proposals, reviews, dissertation and collaborative and creative research projects. Coursework contributes 100% to your final mark.
Application closing date guidance
Key Information
Course type:
Master's
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time / Part time
Duration:
One year full-time, two years part-time, September to September
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2026