Creative and Cultural Industries
Entry requirements
A level
Scottish Higher
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About this course
**Please note: for September 2024 entry there is only Year 1 entry for this course. Please refer to our Media & Communications course (PP24) if you are looking for advanced entry onto Year 2 or 3.**
This course will give you the expertise to succeed in a wide variety of careers. You will learn about the creative and cultural industries landscape and develop the critical thinking and content creation skills that will set you up for a career in the exciting and thriving creative and cultural sectors.
Creativity and culture play a vital role in our daily lives. Each day we engage in, or with, creativity and culture in some regard – uploading content to social media, attending the theatre, watching a TV show, attending a festival, or visiting a museum or gallery. Somewhere, at some point, a team of people conceived, produced, managed, and shared that creativity for us to experience. These people work in the creative and cultural industries.
This course will encourage you to think critically about creativity and culture – what it is, how, when where and why it is produced and consumed. It will provide you with an in-depth understanding of the creative and cultural sectors and how they are shaped by other factors – such as technology, economics, cultural shifts, and crisis. With creative production and industry engagement intrinsic to the course, it will provide you with the industry networks and knowledge and practical creative production skills you need to become one of the creative leaders and producers of the future.
**Please note this course is subject to validation**
Modules
Year One
You will:
explore the concepts of creativity and culture and their meaning, value, and function in society;
learn the basic principles of different forms of creative production; video (editing, framing, composition, lighting, and story), photography, and digital media content; and
develop your knowledge and understanding of the diverse range of sectors that sit within the broader creative and cultural industries.
Modules
Introduction to Creativity and Culture
Media Production: Skills and Techniques
Introduction to Theatre Production
Media, Culture and Communication Industries
Media Production: Video Project
Creative Production: Digital Content Creation
Year Two
You will:
develop your knowledge and understanding of how creativity and technology intersect and think critically about how technology has reshaped cultural participation, experience, and consumption;
strengthen your creative production skills and develop more complex stories in your creative practice; and
apply your skills to real-world situations with our Digital Communication Campaigning module, where you will develop a digital strategy for a media project for a business or charity.
Modules
Creativity and Technology
Digital Communication Campaigning
Contemporary Scottish Theatre in Context
Event Management
Disruptions in the Media, Culture and Communication Industries
Audiences, Engagement, Participations
Year Three
You will:
learn important research skills to prepare you for Year Four and life beyond university;
develop a plan for your post-university creative career and understand working in the creative industries;
choose specialist options in, for example, film festivals, communication, arts and activism, screenwriting, photography, or writing for radio; and
have the opportunity (subject to availability) to study for one semester at a university overseas. For more information, visit Exchanges and Study Abroad.
Modules
Working in the Film, Media, and Communications Sectors
Arts Funding in its Policy Context
Creative Production: Podcasting
Designing a Research project
Plus, two options
Year Four
You will:
choose further specialist options in, for example, film festivals, communication, arts and activism, screenwriting, photography, or writing for radio;
develop your understanding of creative and cultural management and the business side of the creative and cultural industries, gaining skills in project planning and management, marketing, leadership, as well as the financial side of the creative and cultural industries; and
complete a written or creative production dissertation or complete a placement with a cultural organisation or creative business. Creative production dissertations can be in film, photography, screenwriting, video essay or a group video dissertation format.
Modules
Dissertation or Placement
Planning and Marketing Cultural Projects
The Business of Creativity
Plus, two options
Year Three and Four options may include:
Advanced Theatre Production
Communication, Arts and Activism
Experiential Learning Placement
Film and the Family
Film Festivals
Photography and Visual Culture
Photography Practice
Playwriting
Popular Music
Radio and Audio Media
Reputation Issues and Crisis Management
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Screenwriting
Site-specific Performance
Student Initiated Module
The Only Way is Ethics
The Video Essay
Video Production
NB The modules listed here are correct at time of posting (June 2023) but may differ slightly to those offered in 2024. Please check back here for any updates.
Assessment methods
You will be taught in lectures, seminars and in practical workshops. We have superb on-campus resources and media production equipment, including a recently upgraded film editing suite and dedicated production and photography area equipped with a green screen and on-site lighting equipment, plus a fully equipped studio theatre and construction workshop. You will be assessed in a wide array of ways across the course, including presentations, case studies, podcasts, blogs, videos, essays, video essays and some written exams.
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The Uni
Queen Margaret University
School of Arts, Social Sciences and Management
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