Course overview

Our MA Architecture course enables you to develop an individual approach to spatial design within a stimulating, creative and supportive environment.

Our MA Architecture course is a research-focused programme that advances your knowledge of built and occupied space. For us, architecture is not only concerned with buildings and construction details, but also how people perceive and understand space at a fundamental level. Through engagement with experimental design practice both digital and analogue in workshops and studio, and therefore increasing your specialist knowledge, you improve your ability to manage and deliver practical projects whilst engaging with technology and innovative design.

Our students speculate upon possible outcomes and alternate realities that have grown from contemporary technologies; we do so through an assimilation and expert application of making skills and artistic craft knowledge, which is readily accessible in the wider UCA community.

Apply for full-time study – starting September 2021

Course overview

Our MA Animation course builds on a long and illustrious history of animation education at UCA Farnham, and will provide you with a strong interdisciplinary approach to the animated form.

This course attracts students from around the world and has a rich cultural mix. You’ll approach animation as a broad discipline and be encouraged to engage with experimental and speculative approaches to making through a range of projects, which will culminate in the production of a high quality animated film.

You will come to this course as an established animator but will be encouraged to take risks, explore new techniques and develop your interests, and exchange, debate and discuss your ideas. You will be expected to produce original and exciting films, and explore the wide range of creative possibilities of frame-by -frame filmmaking.

full-time study – starting September 2021

Course overview

Our ground-breaking MA Digital Fashion course, taught by an award-winning team of researchers, industry practitioners and academics will take creative fashion thinkers and designers into a new and exciting digital world.

This one year, full-time course is the only one of its kind and has been designed specifically to meet the requirements of a growing number of major brands – from Gucci and Louis Vuitton to major high street players – who are moving into the virtual market, where fashion is instant, eye-catching, sustainable and entirely digital.

Full Time study – starting September 2021

Length of study : One year full-time

Campus : UCA Farnham

Entry requirements : Honours degree and/or relevant work experience

Course overview

MA Digital Media, taught at UCA Farnham, is a practice-based course for students who want to extend their study or improve their employability in media-related fields in the UK or internationally.

There is an increasing demand for digital content for both existing and emerging media. Content makers have to understand how to apply their creative skills and ideas across a range of platforms and media, and be adaptable to this fast-changing industry.

This course gives you the opportunity to further develop and extend your skills in this area and apply them across a range of media applications and offers you a choice of specialist areas, this might be in image making or you might choose to gain a deeper understanding of the business of media and important areas such as intellectual property rights.

Length of study : One year full-time

Campus : UCA Farnham

Entry requirements : Honours degree and/or relevant work experience

Course entry options : September 2021

Course overview

If you want to explore moving image beyond conventional film, then our MA in Experimental Film at UCA Farnham will give you the chance to explore new and exciting avenues of the craft.

This one year, full-time course will support your development as a creative moving image expert, expanding the boundaries of your thinking and practice and advancing your visual and research interests.

Led by internationally-renowned staff and inspired by an exciting range of prominent visiting artists and theorists, you’ll work with both 16mm equipment and digital techniques to produce the stylised films and moving image pieces you really want to make. Along the way, you’ll build a deeper understanding of global perspectives on experimental film as you study the ideas, methods and works of some of the leading proponents of the craft.

Course Overview

Our MA Fine Art programme is a two-year part-time course, beginning January 2021.

Through online delivery the course is accessible to anyone who, because of work, caring or family commitments, would not otherwise be able to consider studying at higher degree level.

The MA Fine Art programme offers students the opportunity to work in a medium of their choice; past students have worked in a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, writing, printmaking, installation, performance, curation, time-based work and digital art. The emphasis of the programme is on studio practice, with theory, context and professional practice integrated throughout.

As you progress through the course you will be able to share experiences and learning through group and individual work. The curriculum builds from a more structured programme towards autonomous study, with an emphasis on enquiry, critical reflection and exploration.

Course overview

Our MA/MSc Global Marketing & Communications course offers those with wider business knowledge the opportunity to focus on marketing, communication, PR and advertising within the fast-growing creative industries.

Studying Global Marketing & Communications at postgraduate level will allow you to further develop and refine your existing skills and critical insight into the professional, theoretical and practical world of creative promotion. Supported by teaching professionals and working alongside other practitioners, you will be able to collaborate with other Creative Business and Media postgraduate students to enrich your learning experience.

Every course within our Business School portfolio is taught with a global perspective, giving graduates the skillset required to pursue a creative business career anywhere in the world. Our teaching programmes are all project based, combining knowledge from both business and the creative industries in order to produce well-rounded, highly employable graduates with a highly-regarded qualification.

Course overview

Studying Global Master of Business & Management at the UCA Business School for the Creative Industries will push you to the forefront of management in one of the UK’s most successful business sectors and with a specialism in one of eight categories.

The course will enable you to further develop your creative management skills business acumen which will support your professional development in your preferred creative industry. Your degree will be awarded with a specialism in either: Cosmetics and Beauty, Fashion Industry, Fine Art, Games Industry, Global Media Industries, Lifestyle Goods, Luxury Goods and Services, or Music Industry.

This one-year degree course will teach you high-level business content and will enable you to collaborate with other Creative Business postgraduate students. Your learning programme will highlight the specialised leadership challenges and opportunities of the creative industries ­– such as fashion, film and TV, animation, architecture or computer games – with a focus on creative business.

Length of study : One year full-time

Campus : UCA Epsom

Entry requirements : Honours degree and/or relevant work experience

Course entry options : September 2021

Course overview

MA Graphic Design at UCA Epsom has been structured to promote the role of designers as skilled professional communicators, and firmly embed a culture of research and problem solving into creative practice.

Producing outcomes from informed and independent research is a top priority on this MA. Alongside this, we will help you to master your own unique area of graphic design through a series of lectures, workshops, tutorials, live pitches and presentations, supported by our wide range of facilities and old and new technologies.

Length of study : One year full-time

Campus : UCA Epsom

Entry requirements : Honours degree and/or relevant work experience

Course entry options : September 2021

Course overview

Our innovative MA/MSc Human Resource Management for Creative Industries degree offers a unique opportunity to specialise within human resources, tailoring your skills to better suit this dynamic sector of the economy.

This course, taught at the unique Business School for the Creative Industries at UCA Epsom, provides the appropriate knowledge and skills to thrive within a creative industries’ organisational context, and thus improve management and leadership within the sector.

You will become a reflective practitioner, developing the capacity to manage your own learning and development, and enhance your own skills in critical enquiry, logical thought, creative imagination and independent judgement.

Course overview

Our MA Interior Design course enables you to develop an individual approach to spatial design within a stimulating, creative and supportive environment.

We aim to produce better designers, who are better at complex design decisions, who are sensitive and ambitious practitioners able to work with an open mind.

At UCA we are committed to research-led practice. Designing through a process of experimental design practice, you will be expected to demonstrate expert knowledge in your chosen field of interest and mastery of your designed outcomes. Finally you will design work that is a unique expression of the expertise you’ve developed with us.

Length of study : One year full-time

Campus : UCA Canterbury

Entry requirements : Honours degree and/or relevant work experience

Course entry options : September 2021

Course overview

If you’re seeking a career in luxury brand consultancy, brand management, communications or product management, MA/MSc Luxury Business Management will equip you with the commercial business skills required to progress in this vibrant and lucrative industry.

This one-year master’s degree will focus your creative talents and build your business management skills to allow you to progress into a high-level management role or start your own entrepreneurial venture in the luxury brand sector.

Length of study : One year full-time

Campus : UCA Epsom

Entry requirements : Honours degree and/or relevant work experience

Course entry options : September 2021

Length of study : One year full-time

Campus : UCA Farnham

Entry requirements : Honours degree and/or relevant work experience

Course entry options : September 2021

Course overview

Our MA in Screen Acting and Performance at UCA Farnham offers you an opportunity to expand and deepen your contextual knowledge and practice in acting for the stage or screen.

While you don’t need any formal training in performance to join this course, we are looking for creative students who are keen to challenge themselves, experiment and push boundaries within the craft.

With the support of expert staff including Dr Sian Rees, Dr Harry Whalley and pioneering intimacy co-ordinator Pia Rickman, you will explore different aspects of performance and how it is consumed, learn about presenting, develop your professional profile, extend your screen acting skills and complete an ambitious final project.

Course overview

We believe the most successful designers are cultural innovators who, through their practice, inform, persuade and entertain. Through our MA Visual Communication course, you’ll develop a confident design voice and create an outstanding portfolio of work in readiness for the contemporary professional world.

You’ll explore the mechanisms for conveying messages and meaning through a diverse range of media, you’ll be encouraged to develop new skills to strengthen and inform your design practice, and you’ll gain an understanding of the skill sets required for print, motion, and digital design.

You’ll also have the opportunity to enhance your practice in the areas needed to become a creative leader and go on to a career within the broad field of visual communication, which includes areas such as print media, user experience, motion design, web design, exhibition design and advertising, collaborating with other members of our creative community.

Length of study : One year full-time

Campus : UCA Canterbury

Entry requirements : Honours degree and/or relevant work experience

Course entry options : September 2021

Course overview

Our MA Photography course approaches photography as an expanded visual discipline. You’ll be encouraged to confidently produce complex and extended photographic projects and engage with experimental and speculative approaches to making.

We offer a dynamic and exciting environment for studying the critical theory of photography, engaging with practices of reading and writing about the image. Our MA Photography course also pays close attention to the dissemination, exhibition and publication of photographic work.

We provide specialist digital and analogue facilities for large-format colour and black-and-white exhibition prints.

Length of study : One year full-time

Campus : UCA Rochester

Entry requirements : Honours degree and/or relevant work experience

Course entry options : September 2021