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MEDIA, ARTS AND DESIGN POSTGRADUATE COURSES CONTENTS WELCOME ..................................................................... 2 RESEARCH ...................................................................... 4 FACULTY OF MEDIA, PROFESSORIAL TEAM ..................................................... 8 ARTS AND DESIGN CENTRE FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES MANAGEMENT ....... 13 FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME FASHION BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MA ...................... 14 POSTGRADUATE COURSES INTERNATIONAL MEDIA BUSINESS MA .......................... 20 MEDIA MANAGEMENT MA .......................................... 24 MUSIC BUSINESS MANAGEMENT MA .......................... 28 CENTRE FOR PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION ........... 33 MEDICAL JOURNALISM GRADUATE DIPLOMA .................. 34 MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM MA ...................................... 38 PUBLIC RELATIONS MA ................................................. 42 CREATIVE PRACTICE AND ART THEORY ........................... 47 AUDIO PRODUCTION MA ............................................ 48 DESIGN FOR COMMUNICATION MA ........................... 52 DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOJOURNALISM MA ..................................... 56 FILM AND TELEVISION: THEORY, CULTURE AND INDUSTRY MA ....................................... 60 INTERACTIVE MEDIA MA .............................................. 64 PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES MA ...................................... 68 MEDIA AND SOCIETY ................................................... 73 COMMUNICATION MA ............................................... 74 COMMUNICATIONS POLICY MA .................................. 78 DIVERSITY AND THE MEDIA MA ..................................... 82 GLOBAL MEDIA MA ..................................................... 86 MEDIA AND DEVELOPMENT MA ................................... 90 MEDIA, CAMPAIGNING AND SOCIAL CHANGE MA ........................................ 96 SOCIAL MEDIA, CULTURE AND SOCIETY MA ................ 100 EMERGING MEDIA LABS .............................................. 105 IMAGING ART AND SCIENCE MA/MSc ...................... 106 ENGLISH LANGUAGE SUPPORT.................................... 110 COURSE ENQUIRIES FACILITIES ................................................................... 112 First Floor Cavendish House ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER ................. 114 101 New Cavendish Street LIVING AND STUDYING IN LONDON ........................... 116 London W1W 6XH T: +44 (0)20 7915 5511 AN INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE ................................ 117 E: course-enquiries@westminster. HOW TO APPLY .......................................................... 118 ac.uk ACCOMMODATION, FEES AND FUNDING ................... 120 FOR POSTGRADUATE LOCATION ................................................................. 122 INFORMATION EVENING DATES CONTACT US ............................................................. 124 visit our website westminster.ac.uk westminster.ac.uk/mad CONTENTS 1 If you want to give your inquisitiveness and The Faculty of Media, Arts and Design fosters WELCOME imagination, your design ambitions and the development of sought after professional entrepreneurial, new energy, focus and skills such as critical and creative thinking, application, we can offer you a vibrant and effective communication, teamwork and The creative sector is one of the most significant diverse community of students, researchers, leadership, social and cultural competencies growth engines for the UK economy and creative practitioners and alumni from across for working in diverse global contexts, worldwide. Throughout the recent recession it the world to interact with and to learn from. We and entrepreneurship. It encourages cross- has continued to enjoy dynamic advancement have grown an extensive network of creative disciplinary project work in the Faculty and the alongside a proliferation of new business industries partnerships and international University, international exchanges, life projects models and professional career trajectories. partnerships to offer opportunities for live with industry and businesses, placements In many instances this has been fuelled by project work, research and knowledge and internships. The knowledge, skills and technology and/or media convergences. At exchange, and study abroad, for the benefit experiences acquired during their programme present, the creative economy, which has of all our students and our staff. of study prepare our graduates to go directly its biggest UK hub in and around London, into employment; to set up their own business; provides jobs for 2.5 million people. The Our industry-standard production and or to embark on a research degree. number of highly skilled and enterprising postproduction facilities in purpose-built studios professionals has increased four times faster and workshops stimulate creative experiences ‘Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the than the UK workforce as a whole. that closely match what you can expect to future, act now, without delay’ (Simone de encounter in professional environments. The Beauvoir). Invest in your future and join us The Faculty of Media, Arts and Design at the tailored learning support services on our for an excellent and advanced, critical and University of Westminster plays a significant Harrow Campus include a well-stocked and creative education. role in educating the next generations spacious library that is accessible 24/7. of media professionals, filmmakers and photographers, fashion designers, music Our campus in Harrow has undergone an performers and producers, artists and multi- extensive programme of refurbishment and Professor Kerstin Mey media communicators, through both, an modernisation, including the creation of Dean, Faculty of Media, emphasis on professional practice and the Forum, a generous and fluid space for Arts and Design world-leading research with societal impact. informal exchange and learning, interactive Covering the intersection of media, creative presentations and performance that also art practice, technology and industry with contains dedicated project spaces and a a broad and diverse portfolio of taught and new state-of-the-art gallery. A high spec research programmes, the Faculty has proven music performance space and a state of to successfully prepare its graduates to lead the art recording studio have been recently and shape the creative industries. In 2015, the been completed alongside new studios for QS Worldwide University Rankings has placed creative practice. More is planned over for the research and courses in Media, Journalism the next period to enhance the learning and and Communications at the University of teaching facilities of one of Europe’s centres of Westminster among the top 35 globally. excellence for higher education in media and Photographers, filmmakers and artists have their the creative arts. work shown in prestigious cultural venues and events internationally. Fashion designers and visual communicators join global players in the film industry. 2 WELCOME westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad WELCOME 3 was assessed as 45 per cent World Leading, CREAM embraces the work of leading artists, Both CREAM and CAMRI are imbued with a RESEARCH AT THE and 46 per cent Internationally Excellent, theorists and historians of art, including, we critical approach to artistic practice and media FACULTY OF MEDIA, ranking it number three in the UK, and top in are proud to say, a number of the same people institutions. And both have a very international Arts research that embraces both practice and doing both. Its strengths include photography, – and non-western - focus – with particular ARTS AND DESIGN theory. Our Media research was assessed as digital art and curation, experimental, strengths in Chinese, South Asian, Arab and 52 per cent World Leading and 35 per cent documentary and Asian film, and ceramics. African media. Internationally Excellent, ranking it number four Our faculty hosts some of the UK’s most highly in the country. CAMRI has a long tradition of analysing the Our two world-leading research groups, rated research in both Arts and Media. political economy of communication, media with, between them over sixty active Our high research reputation is based on the policy, media history, media and social researchers and over a hundred PhD Twice a decade all research groups in work of our two leading research groups – change and the social impact of new media students, sustain our faculty’s vigorous and British universities are subject to a rigorous CREAM (Centre for Research and Education technologies. In recent years it has developed wide-ranging research culture, and nourish government sponsored evaluation and grading in Arts and Media) in the Arts and CAMRI particular strength in the analysis of the social, the full range of taught postgraduate courses – the Research Excellence Framework or REF. (Communication and Media Research Institute) political and economic impacts of social media. you will find in this brochure. In the 2014 REF our faculty’s Arts research in Media. 4 RESEARCH westminster.ac.uk/mad westminster.ac.uk/mad RESEARCH 5 COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CAMRI) CAMRI has been a leading centre of Media and Communications research in the UK for almost 30 years, with 30 researchers and 65 Doctoral students. In the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) – the official exercise in which all research at every UK university is assessed – 52 per cent of our research was judged to be “world-leading”