We continually develop our course portfolio to stay ahead of the market and meet the changing creative and cultural needs of the 21st century. Some of our courses focus on creative practical work and vocational training. Others look closely at contextual issues, theory, criticism, contemporary ideas and debates. Many courses offer project work and placements and some combine practice-based modules with theory.
You could be involved in writing short film scripts, devising a performance with a leading contemporary company, working on studies of ethnicity and race, critically analysing recent television phenomena such as Celebrity Big Brother, getting to grips with postmodernism intellectual arguments or producing a news item for our literary magazine The South Bank Review.
The department has excellent links and partnerships with regional, national and international arts, media and cultural industries, such as ArtsAdmin, BFI, Donmar Warehouse, Media Trust, National Theatre, Sadler's Wells and Tate. We also collaborate with innovative commercial media providers such as Key20.
Our students also benefit from seeing their work showcased across the capital.
Our undergraduate courses cover a wide range of culture, writing and performance studies areas including:
All our courses are designed to support both students who want to work as independent creative practitioners and those wanting to work for arts and media organisations in a range of roles such as producers, directors, journalists, curators, fundraisers, events organisers, media analysts, researchers or arts educators. Many successful graduates also develop careers in primary and secondary teaching.
Our postgraduate provision is centred around the innovative MA Creative Media Arts scheme with named degrees in Creative Writing, Critical Arts Management, Cultural and Media Studies and Media Writing. Our high quality staff offer guidance on projects in creative writing (including script writing and poetry), multimedia, arts and theatre management, visual arts curation, journalism, and film theory. These specialist Masters degrees are part time and designed to fit around professional working life. They are also project centred, with students carrying out practice-based and academic projects.
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