This course is based in Culture Lab, our home for creative digital practice. We are a research community at the forefront of thinking about how creative practice can generate new kinds of knowledge.

You will learn to work flexibly with open source and emerging technologies and create innovative work. In addition, research methods from experimental design will strengthen your practice. You will also engage with theories of digital art, culture and technology.

You will choose your course of study, including:

• live electronic performance
• digital art practice
• film making
• creative writing
• experimental music
• creative enterprise

We're in the heart of the city centre campus. Newcastle has a vibrant art scene, so is a great place to study digital creative arts.

The Newcastle University Institute for Creative Arts Practice aggregates the creative critical mass within a world-class research-intensive University. We'll encourage you to collaborate and create work that has a global significance. We offer a supportive environment where collaborative and interdisciplinary creative projects can thrive.

Facilities

Culture Lab has excellent equipment and facilities, including:

• a stock of film cameras
• editing suites
• CNC fabrication 
• sound-mixing technology

You will be taught by a wide range of successful creative professionals. We will help you develop skills and equip you to contribute to the thriving cultural and creative industries.

Modules for 2017 entry

Compulsory modules

• HSS8120 Creative Digital Practice
• HSS8121 Enterprise and Research Methods
• HSS8123 Creative Practice Project

You can also choose 80 credits worth of modules from the following areas.

You must take 40 credits from one subject area, but the remaining 40 credits can be taken from a mix of areas. There may be some timetabling constraints depending on your module choices:

Digital film

• MCH8002 Film Production 1
• MCH8003 Film Production 2

Creative writing

• SEL8641 Introduction to the Craft of Writing
• FMS8353 Screenwriting

Digital media

• DMS8012 Advanced Creative Digital Practice: Live Electronic Performance
• DMS8013 Advanced Creative Digital Practice:Graphics, Data and Physical Computing

Fine art

• FIN8010 Artwork and Audience
• FIN8011 Interrogating your Discipline

Landscape

• APL8000 Conceptualising Landscape
• APL8004 Conceptualising Landscape
• APL8008 History of the Designed Landscape
• ARC8082 Research Through Design

Multi-media communications

• MCH8069 Multimedia Journalism: Principles and Practice
• MCH8061 Professional Sub-Editing

Museum and art curatorship

• MCH8503 Communicating and Learning in Museum/Gallery/Heritage Studies
• MCH8502 Managing Projects in the Museum/Gallery/Heritage Sector
• MCH8550 Working on a Project in the Museums Sector*
• MCH8551 Working on an Art Museum and Gallery Project*
• MCH8552 Working on a Project in the Heritage Sector*

*You must take module with MCH8502

Music

• MUS8160 Elective Project 1
• MUS8161 Elective Project 2

Creative enterprise

• NBS8601 Understanding and Managing Creative Enterprises
• NBS8033 Business Enterprise for Postgraduate Students
• MCH8028 Arts as Enterprise - Freelancing in Arts and Cultures 1
• MCH8029 Arts as Enterprise - Freelancing in Arts and Cultures 2

Module changes

Module changes

Modules change annually to take account of:

• changing staff expertise
• developments in the discipline
• the requirements of external bodies and partners
• student feedback.

Most module information for 2018 entry will be available from mid-May 2018.

Find out more about our tuition fees, including how to pay them and available discounts.

EU students starting at Newcastle in 2018 will pay the UK (Home) tuition fee for the full duration of their course.

Funding opportunities

If you have lower English Language scores, you may be accepted onto a pre-sessional English course. 

Pathway courses

Our Architecture Graduate Diplomas will prepare you for Master's study at Newcastle. If you're successful then you're guaranteed a place on this Master's course. Depending on your level of English, you can choose from:

• Architecture Graduate Diploma
• Architecture Graduate Diploma with Pre-sessional English

Pathway courses

Our Business and Humanities Graduate Diplomas will prepare you for Master's study at Newcastle. If you're successful then you're guaranteed a place on this Master's course. Depending on your level of English, you can choose from:

• Business and Humanities Graduate Diploma
• Business and Humanities Graduate Diploma with Pre-sessional English

You need to submit an electronic portfolio of creative work with your application. Your portfolio should demonstrate the range of your creative skills and interests. It may be submitted as a presentation, as a PDF, as video or sound or as a website link. 

Start dates

The course starts in September. There is no application closing date for this course.

We suggest international students apply at least two months before the course starts. This is so that you have enough time to make the necessary arrangements.

Deposit

If you live outside the UK/EU you must:

• pay a deposit of £1,500
• or submit an official letter of sponsorship

The deposit is payable after you receive an offer to study at Newcastle University. The deposit is non-refundable, but is deducted from your tuition fees when you register.