Creative industries short courses – for media professionals

You work in the creative industries and need to develop new knowledge and skills at Master's level to enhance your employability and value to your company.

Imagine having the freedom to gain new knowledge and skills, the flexibility to study when you want to and the confidence to set the pace. The security of knowing you’re supported by the expertise of an internationally-renowned university.

You chose your career. Now choose your future. We have brought our world-class reputation for creativity and innovation, our practicing professional academic staff and extensive research resources into partnership with Skillset to enable you to use these short courses to Build Your Own MA. 

Tailor your programme of study to suit your specific personal and career needs, and stand out and succeed in a competitive field with higher-level skills and specialist knowledge – whether you complete the full MA, or select just one course.

Course programme

Planning

Developing your leadership skills through critical thinking, analyse the issues that will shape the industry of the future

• Design Methods & Processes for Innovation
• Media Futures

Thinking

Grow your creative potential and entrepreneurial spirit through strategic thinking:

• Developing Cross-Platform Projects
  
  

  Entrepreneurial Modelling
• Entrepreneurial Modelling
• Media Strategy
• Discourses of Innovation
• MA Professional Media Practice Research Project

Doing

Hone your practical skills, talents and knowledge:

• Programming for Artists
• Online Journalism
• Games & Interactive Business & Practice
• The Design Studio Innovation Project Course
• Radio Drama
• Creating Apps for iPhones & iPads

How it works

The courses are designed to work as:

• Stand-alone enhancements to your professional CV and personal knowledge and expertise. No commitments for future modules are required – you can do as many or as few as you choose.

• Building blocks to higher qualifications. Each course is worth a certain number of credits. If you choose to, you can build up your credits to achieve a Postgraduate Certificate, Diploma or the following Master's programme:

-MA in Professional Media Practice

You can also gain a Postgraduate Certificate (60 credits) or Postgraduate Diploma (120) credits. To complete the MA, you need a total of 180 credits, of which 120 need to be gained from attendance on a number of the accredited courses and completion of appropriate assignments, along with 60 credits for the successful completion of your final project. 

For added flexibility, you can opt to take courses at any accredited institutions across the Skillset Media Academy Network , as long as one third of your credits are completed at the Academy that awards your qualification.

These short courses are delivered using the knowledge and experience of prominent industry experts within Goldsmiths' widely-respected, innovative departments:

• Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE),
• Media and Communications
• Design
• Computing

If you are an employer and are interested in finding out how these courses could benefit your company you can find out more

Start in March

The next course running will be Creating Audio Visual Apps for iPhones and iPads. This course introduces you to application development for iPhones and iPads using the popular artists coding toolkit, openFrameworks and is running from March 2012.

For more information or to apply, please contact Libby Tuson on 020 7919 7083 or l.tuson@gold.ac.uk