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MA - Master of Arts
Stoke-on-Trent Campus
Part Time
Sep 2027
2 Year
This is a unique course where you decide the focus and subject of your postgraduate studies in the diverse area of arts, humanities and creative technologies. Your overall project or research focus could be around developing a book or film, compiling a portfolio for a specific job or work towards an exhibition. You can follow a passion or expand on your work experience or undergraduate work. A Masters award will demonstrate your skills and commitment, which will help to validate funding bids or impress an employer. You’ll benefit from connecting with other creatives as well as upskilling in a specific area of work. On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: MA Arts and Creative Technologies (by negotiated study)There are two core modules where you’ll design your learning contract and learn about research methods. Everything else is chosen by you.Armed with your proposal we will find you a subject-specific mentor, who will help you put together a Learning Contract, which is your own bespoke course design, which will allow you to complete your project. You can use your own experience and interests to explore a subject through work-experience. You can also use the resources of the faculty –whether it be teaching and research expertise or workshop facilities – to help you. You even pick your own title for the course. MaNS students are also encouraged to engage with the university's research centres in relation to their specific subject areas, in particular The C3 Centre: Creative Industries and Creative communities and DEMI Centre for research in the Digital entertainment and media industries
This module will provide you to an introduction to postgraduate level research methods. It includes a range of topics that are (a) valid across a range of disciplines; and (b) specifically pertinent to Masters level study. The content of this module introduces you to key elements involved in the research process that are intended to provide you with a good basis to develop from in the rest of your degree programme.
The module will introduce you to a variety of approaches that are implicit to negotiated study. This will provide you with the key knowledge and skills required to successfully manage your Masters programme. The module will combine one-to-one tutorials and workshops in order to provide you with both the opportunity to develop your own research programme and meet with fellow learners to share experiences of self-managed study. The module will also involve the development of the learning contract, which is the agreed plan of study for the Masters as a whole. You will also be expected to critically reflect upon the process of developing ideas for negotiated study and consider how you will manage your postgraduate studies.
This module provides the framework for the initiation of your overall project as outlined in your Learning Contract. It should be used to establish working processes that will inform your practice as you begin to test ideas relating to the project aims and objectives set by you in your Learning Contract.
Your Masters project is an extended piece of independent research that allows you to explore, in depth, a topic of your choosing based on your previous learning on the course, as ever, this takes place under the supervision of your main subject supervisor(s). In undertaking this project, you will both extend your knowledge and understanding of an aspect of practice in your field of study and continue to develop transferrable skills of planning, research, analysis, problem solving, critical reflection, and time/self-management. The topic for this piece of work will integrate the knowledge and skills that you have attained whilst on the course. The other modules you have undertaken in your negotiated course provide the intellectual and practical framework for your research and you will be expected to draw on the theoretical, practical, conceptual and methodological concerns that define your field of study.
The module provides the framework for development of your overall programme of study, as outlined in your Learning Contract. You will consolidate working processes and develop any cross-disciplinary work you are doing relating to individual project aims and objectives that you have already developed. By the end of the module you should also be able to make any necessary revisions to your overall programme aims and Learning Contract and be able to begin planning your Final Masters Project.
The module provides the framework for development of your overall programme of study, as outlined in your Learning Contract. You will consolidate working processes and develop any cross-disciplinary work you are doing relating to individual project aims and objectives that you have already developed. By the end of the module you should also be able to make any necessary revisions to your overall programme aims and Learning Contract and be able to begin planning your Final Masters Project.
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