MA in Creative and Professional Practice in Arts and Education

 
This Masters programme is intended for those interested in the study of creative and professional practice in arts and educational settings. The degree is taught by academic staff from the University's Schools of English and Education in partnership with local arts and educational institutions.

 The multidisciplinary focus draws together teachers and creative practitioners, those involved or interested in careers in arts administration and educational development, and those with a general interest in promoting creative learning through engagement with the arts. The degree is therefore made up of two parallel strands: one related to the professional practices of education and the other related to careers in the creative industries. There will be opportunities for extended or shorter term placements and practical experiences with our local partners, who include large institutions, small companies and individual practitioners and educationalists. The course is delivered on a part-time basis, with classes timetabled on evenings, weekends and during school half terms.

This course, offered on a part-time basis only, has an integrated approach to learning through more traditional academic means alongside experiential learning in professional contexts. It is interdisciplinary in focus and will draw on expertise from the Schools of English and Education, and in doing so will also reflect advances in scholarship that incorporate theory from other disciplinary traditions (in relation, for example, to space and place, or community). This blend of professional and academic learning will bring together students with different interests (in drama, in education, in film, in arts administration, in creative practice) and from different backgrounds, and will offer them opportunities for career development as well as academic enhancement.

 The MA in Creative and Professional Practice in Arts and Education offers 120 credits of taught modules at Masters (level 4) plus a 60 credit dissertation

This unique and innovative programme will provide the necessary foundation and expertise required by professionals working in the arts and education. The degree builds on both schools’ strengths in theatre, performance, creativity, education and the arts.

This degree will also provide students with an excellent grounding for pursuing research degrees, as well as professional practice.

This course will be of particular interest to practitioners from across a wide professional spectrum including teachers in the arts currently teaching in schools and higher education who are interested in further study on a part-time basis. 

Course Structure

For students beginning the programme in September 2012, the structure is as follows:

Autumn Semester Year One

Q34830 Creativity and Learning (30 credits)

Spring Semester Year One

Students choose one of the following:
Q34833 Shakespeare: Text, Pedagogy, Performance (30 credits)
Q34831 Place, Space and Time in Creative Practice (30 credits)
Q34836 Independent Project (30 credits)

Autumn Semester Year Two

Q34829 Creating and Analysing Texts and Performance (30 credits)

Spring Semester Year Two

Students choose one of the following:
Q34835 Film Literacies (30 credits)
Q34828 Writing: Practice, Process and Publication (30 credits)
Q34836 Independent Project (30 credits)

Students complete the programme with a 60 credit dissertation.

Module Overview

Q34830 Creativity and Learning.  This team-taught module introduces teachers, creative practitioners and those working in arts administration to current concepts of creativity, enabling them to investigate and put into practice definitions of creativity and creative learning, to understand the complex policy landscape in which those definitions currently operate and the opportunities which they present, and to develop and explore their own pedagogies of creative learning in a range of institutional contexts.

Q34829 Creating and Analysing Texts and Performance gives students the opportunity to engage with a range of professional practice in the creation and analysis of texts and performance. In doing so students will develop new skills and extend existing ones through the exploration of issues in creating and analysing performance and texts in a variety of contexts. These contexts range from the traditional work of professional theatre companies to the individual ‘performance’ of daily life.

Q34833 Shakespeare: Text, Pedagogy, Performance is an exciting and innovative blend of intensive workshop-based delivery, including attendance of live performances and screenings, and a guided individual project that builds around and out of the workshop experience.

Q34831 Place, Space and Time in Creative Practice introduces current and future teachers, creative practitioners, arts administrators, and postgraduate students with relevant qualifications and interests, to a range of critical approaches that address how place and space contribute to the production and reception of meaning.

Q34836 Independent Project provides students with an opportunity to pursue independent research in an area of creative and professional practice in arts and education contexts which is not covered on the MA CPPAE, or to develop substantially research in an area already partly covered or introduced on the MA.

Q34835 Film Literacies reframes notions of film analysis and film-making by asking the question - is film a literacy in its own right? Students will explore key moments in the history of cultural debates around the role of film as an educational resource and mode of learning.

Q34828 Writing: Practice, Process and Publication examines the mechanisms and processes involved in the production and publication of writing. In focusing on the book as something made, it offers something that complements the way writing is studied in either literature or creative writing modules.

Entry Requirements

2.1 (Upper 2nd class hons degree from British University or international equivalent) or 2.2 with PGCE (or equivalent)

Up to 60 credits of Accredited Prior Learning will be considered for applicants who have achieved a PGCE.

International students whose first language is not English are required to have one of the following English language qualifications before they can register on an academic programme. However, applicants from certain countries may have these requirements waived subject to the University of Nottingham Policy for Waiving English Language Entry Requirements. 

IELTS Requirements 7.0 (no less than 6.0 in any element)

TOEFL IBT 100 with no less than 21 in listening, 22 in reading, 23 in speaking and 21 in writing

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