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Study

Postgraduate Study

MRes Digital Media

Running in 2013

The Digital Media Master of Research (MRes) programme is a flexible, creative programme in the latest interactive technologies, new media theory, and exploratory media art practice.

Based in Culture Lab, the course provides the opportunity to pursue specific research interests, whilst developing a range of transferable skills for contemporary creative production. Through a combination of practical and theoretical modules, the course enables students to investigate actively the influence of new digital technologies in relation to creativity and communication.

Run by the School of Arts and Cultures, the course offers a supportive community for practice-based research, encouraging innovation and active engagement with the wider cultural sector.



MA Creative Arts Practice

Flexible Transdisciplinary Programme starts in Culture Lab in 2012

Digital Media • Creative Enterprise • Fine Art • Film • Architecture
Creative Writing • Music • Media & Communication • Museum & Art Curatorship

12 months full time; 24 months part time.

Please note that this programme, available from September 2012, is still subject to full University approval and at this stage it is not possible to apply for the programme.

Programme Description

This innovative new MA, based in University’s cutting edge research environment of Culture Lab, is a practice-based, transdisciplinary course that focuses on emerging creative practice and creative entrepreneurship in digital age. It is designed for artists, designers, musicians, writers, computer scientists and practitioners who are interested in exploring novel disciplines in relation to tarnsdisciplinary practice in order to expand their current work portfolio and to learn new technologies and skills.

Throughout the programme there is a great emphasis on exploratory practice, innovation and transferable knowledge to prepare students for the ever-changing creative and economic environment. The programme allows students to focus on one principal area of interest, combine two or opt for an even greater level of mix.

Students take 40 credits of compulsory modules, 80 credits of optional modules and complete a creative practice project (60 credits). . Compulsory modules include: technologies and digital theories; and enterprise and research methods. Optional modules will be offered in the subject areas listed below and you select four 20-credit modules, of which 40 credits must be from a single stream. The optional streams and modules are as follows: Digital Media, Creative Enterprise, Architecture, Creative Writing, Digital Film, Fine Art, Landscape, Multimedia Communication, Museum and Art Curatorship, Music.

Entrance Requirements

Normally an upper-second-class Honours degree or international equivalent in one of the following subject areas: Digital Media, Film, Music, Fine Art, Multimedia Communication, Visual Communication and Design, Creative Writing, Architecture, Museum and Art Curatorship, and Computer Science.

Further Information

For more information about this programme contact:
Dr Brigitta Zics , Culture Lab, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU
Tel: +44 (0) 191 246 4644
Email: brigitta.zics@ncl.ac.uk
or visit:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/subjects/digitalmedia/courses/658



PhD Research

Culture Lab hosts PhD students from diverse institutional, international and disciplinary backgrounds. Students are directly registered with and supervised by Culture Lab staff or by staff from associated schools. In keeping with its cross-faculty remit, Culture Lab's PhD cohort is affiliated to numerous schools from HaSS and SAgE. These PhD researchers thus benefit from a unique vantage point mixing approaches from both the arts and sciences for developing their projects.

To discuss undertaking postgraduate study within Culture Lab, please contact us. The School of Arts and Cultures website has a wealth of information about available programmes in related areas. Alternatively, for general information about postgraduate study at Newcastle, please visit www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate.



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