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MA/MSc Computing and Creative Industry (Modular)
at University of the Arts London

London, United Kingdom

Tuition Fee £ 23,610
Country Rank#101
Duration12 Months
Score IELTS: 6.5

Program Overview

MA/MSc Computing and Creative Industry (Modular) represents an exciting opportunity to study with the CCI’s world renowned creative computing academics across a range of specialisms unique to the CCI. The course is a modular programme that enables you to study units from across the Creative Computing Institute (CCI) post graduate courses in a combination that suits you. For example, units available with this course come from MSc Creative Computing, MSc Data Science and the Creative Industries and MA Internet Equalities. This means you are able select that specific areas of study that interest you and tailor your post graduate experience at the CCI to support your career aspirations.

The title of this award reflects that the three core areas of Creativity, Computing and Industry are available to you to choose to study within the units on offer and we codify these as:

Creativity: How to ideate, develop concepts into prototypes, work with creative research methods and apply critical cultural understanding.
Computing: Skills in creative computing platforms and coding languages and the critical discourse of computing and society.
Industry: Applied creative computing in contexts, creative management and leadership, enterprise and employability.

With the ability to select units of study across this range you are able to take account of your individual level technical ability, desire for critical engagement and your intended graduate path.

Further benefits of the course include; the ability to study with a range of peers on different CCI courses, access to dedicated CCI specialist course facilities and technical staff, access to a broad range of CCI academic across specialist subject areas. Students on this course will also join a vibrant leaning community where creative technology, discourse and practice are shared in our CCI online communities giving access to CCI research staff, technical support and our vibrant open events programme some of which you can see on our youTube channel at http://youtube.com/ual-cci.

Course Content
Term One: (60 credits from the following)
- Creative Making: Advanced Physical Computing (20 Credits)
- Critical Studies: Computational Thinking and Creative Practice (20 Credits)
- Coding One: Advanced Creative Coding (20 Credits)
- STEM for Creatives (20 Credits)
- Natural Language Processing for the Creative Industries (20 Credits)
- Intersectional Internets (20 credits)
- Methods for Equitable Technology Development (20 credits)
- Feminist Coding Practices (20 credits)
Term Two: (40/60 credits from the following)
- Coding Two: Advanced Frameworks (20 Credits)
- Critical Studies: Computational Thinking and Creative Practice (20 Credits) [continued only]
- Creative Making: Advanced Visualisation and Computational Environments (40 Credits)
- Introduction to Data Science (20 Credits)
- Artificial Intelligence for Media (20 Credits)
- Computational Inequalities (20 Credits)
- Designing for Responsible Innovation (20 Credits)
- Human Rights and Computation (20 Credits)
Term Three: (40/60 credits from the following)
- Platform Potentials (20 Credits)
- Coding Three: Exploring Machine Intelligence (20 Credits)
- Creative Making: Advanced Visualisation and Computational Environments (40 Credits) [continued only]
- Data Science in the Creative Industries (20 Credits)
- Personalisation and Machine Learning (20 Credits)
- Human Rights and Computation (20 Credits) [continued only]
Term Four: (40/60 credits from the following)
- MA Advanced Project (60 Credits)
- MSc Advanced Project (40 Credits)
Entry Requirement
An applicant will normally be considered for admission if they have achieved an educational level equivalent to an honours degree in either the broad field of science and technology studies, computer science, data science, computing, a joint computer sciences and arts/humanities degree, or a closely related subject. Or, from a creative discipline with substantial computational practice.
- Graphic Design
- Interaction Design
- Interactive Media Design
- Web Design
- Communication Design
- Digital Design
- Product Design
Educational level may be demonstrated by:
- Honours degree (named above);
- Possession of equivalent qualifications in a design-related or creative discipline;
- Prior experiential learning, the outcome of which can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required.
- Your experience is assessed as a learning process and tutors will evaluate that experience for currency, validity, quality and sufficiency;
Or a combination of formal qualifications and experiential learning which, taken together, can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required.
Fees & Scholarships
Home fee
£11,550

International fee
£23,610
Career Prospect
Depending on your unit choice graduates will be well placed to work in the following areas:
- Technology Development
- Technology Policy
- Technology Research
- Creative Critical Practice
- Digital Product Development
- Digital Project Management
- User Research
- Creative Technologist
- Creative Developer
- Web Developer
- UX Developer
- iOS App Developer
- Software Developer
- IoT / Smart Products Developer
- Front – End Developer
- Digital Strategist
- Live Events Technologist
- Technology Researcher
- Machine Intelligence Developer
- Broadcast Technologist
- IT Specialist
- Digital Project Manager
- Digital Entrepreneur
- Digital Creative
- Interactive Designer

Cost Of Studying At University of the Arts London

Interest rates as low as 8.9% ^*

250K+

Students Assisted

800Cr+

Loan Amount Disbursed

5000+

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MA/MSc Computing and Creative Industry (Modular) at University of the Arts London