Program Overview

MA Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship: Design Pathway

Overview

This programme offers a January and September start. You will be able to choose your start date at the point of application.

This programme allows you to develop the business/entrepreneurial skills and attributes to commercialise on your creative and cultural practices and/or knowledge.

Programme Details

• Length: 15 months full-time or 27 months part-time
• Start date: This programme offers a January and September start.
• Fees:
  • Home - full-time: £13600
  • Home - part-time: £6800
  • International - full-time: £26250
• Department: Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship

What You'll Study

• Compulsory modules:
  • Theories of Capital (30 credits)
  • Entrepreneurial Modelling (30 credits)
  • Methods and Approaches of Critical Analysis into Cultural Entrepreneurship (15 credits)
  • Studio Practice (30 credits)
  • Business of Creative & Social Enterprises (30 credits)
  • or Industry Placement (30 credits)
  • Dissertation or Project Portfolio plus reflective analysis (75 credits)

Teaching Style

We recognise the importance of supporting your learning with high-quality teaching on a predominantly group seminar/workshop basis with significant levels of individual tutorial support, particularly for independent projects.

A significant amount of the learning will be delivered though peer-to-peer learning, problem-solving workshops, group projects and activities that are designed to develop your individual communication skills and an experience similar to that of the workplace environment, as most organisations in the sector work in task-based teams.

We ensure that the assessments are situated in both the learning and application of learning in future careers.

Entry Requirements

• You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in design, architecture, art, computing, engineering, education, social sciences or any other discipline that has a demonstrable relationship to design and/or research.
• Applicants with relevant work experience will also be considered.
• International qualifications: We accept a wide range of international qualifications.
• English language requirements: If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0 to study this programme.

Careers

The programme will enable those who have previously studied an area of creative study/practice to start a career developing a business arising from an existing or new creative practice.

This may relate directly to a 'product' or 'process' arising from you own practice or to a form of 'expertise', 'consultancy' or 'knowledge'.

The programme will also equip those who wish to work within organisations that develop the infrastructure and environment for new creative businesses with the capacity to flourish in a variety of contexts.

Skills

• You can expect to develop an independence and integrity in developing creative ideas.
• You will be able to apply entrepreneurial approaches to creative projects and demonstrate an understanding of different business models to establish a creative enterprise.
• You will also develop team-working and leadership skills, and effective business and communication skills.

Funding Opportunities

Explore the Goldsmiths scholarships finder to find out what funding you may be eligible for.

If you are a UK student you may be eligible for a postgraduate loan.

Meanwhile our Careers Service can also offer advice on finding work during your studies.

How to Apply

You apply directly to Goldsmiths using our online application system.

To complete your application, you will need to have:

• Details of your academic qualifications
• The email address of your referee who we can request a reference from, or alternatively a copy of youracademic reference
• Copies of your educational transcripts or certificates
• Apersonal statement
• A one-paragraph elevator pitch for an entrepreneurial business idea that you plan to develop through the course.
• A design portfoliowhich should be uploaded electronically

When applying, please specify your preferred pathway i.e. Design.

You must demonstrate in your written application and in interview that you have a capacity for creative and cultural entrepreneurship, and that you are able to meet the intellectual demands of the programme.

Selection Process

Admission to many programmes is by interview, unless you live outside the UK. Occasionally, we'll make candidates an offer of a place on the basis of their application and qualifications alone.