Skip to content

Awards

Target Award

Award Description:Master of Arts - MA

Alternative Exit

Alternative Exit

Programme Offerings

Part-Time

F2F-JMU-SEP

Educational Aims of the Course

As with all Master's level programmes, study will be at, or be informed by, the forefront of the academic and professional discipline; the programme aims to provide skills training in immersive media content production and technologies; including core digital skills for creative media practitioners; practical craft skills; software skills and the opportunity to engage with cutting edge technologies appropriate for individuals who may seek to exploit these in the pursuit of engaging artefacts for a variety of audience contexts at the forefront of arts and industry; to foster the development and application of research and evaluative skills, together with the adoption of professional planning and project management practices for all aspects of creative media production, in order to enhance employability in circumstances requiring sound judgement, personal responsibility, initiative and practical project development and implementation of skills in complex and unpredictable professional and/or artistic environments; to encourage originality in the application of knowledge and understand how the boundaries of knowledge are advanced through research and by approaching complex issues systematically and creatively.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Evidence knowledge and understanding of contextual debates and research legacies pertaining to immersive storytelling.
  • Intercultural
2.
Exploit a range of immersive technologies to communicate ideas, information and aesthetic judgements to an audience.
  • Digital capability
  • Collaboration
3.
Initiate and develop distinctive and original creative work within various forms of immersive technology, delivery platform and context.
  • Creativity
  • Digital capability
  • Organisation
4.
Demonstrate ability to collaboratively develop, plan and manage a substantial project in response to a brief.
  • Organisation
  • Intercultural
5.
To implement an innovative creative artefact which demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of the techniques, processes, methodologies and debates in immersive arts practice.
  • Digital capability
  • Organisation
  • Creativity
  • Intercultural
6.
Appreciate the complexity and diversity of contemporary communications, media, culture and society.
  • Organisation
  • Leadership
  • Digital capability
  • Communication
7.
Work productively in a group or team, showing abilities at different times to listen, contribute and lead effectively.
  • Leadership
  • Collaboration
  • Organisation
  • Communication
8.
Work in flexible, creative and independent ways, showing self-discipline, self-direction, critical self-awareness and reflexivity.
  • Creativity
  • Organisation
9.
Exploit a range of technologies to communicate ideas, information and aesthetic judgements to an audience.
  • Digital capability
  • Creativity
  • Communication
10.
Deliver substantial work to a brief and deadline.
  • Creativity
  • Organisation
11.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of the affordances for immersive media technologies, their context and audience.
  • Intercultural
  • Digital capability
12.
Evidence a knowledge and understanding of research and enquiry methods and a critical awareness of current issues and debates at the forefront of current and emerging creative and professional practice.
13.
Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of the tensions that may lie between; user engagement, narrative processes, creativity and commercial concerns, in the development of innovative immersive media products.
  • Digital capability
  • Numerical literacy
14.
Demonstrate a conceptual understanding to critically examine, evaluate, select and deploy appropriate immersive technologies, to deliver an innovative artefact.
  • Digital capability
15.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of the affordances for immersive storytelling.
  • Intercultural
16.
Undertake self-directed research for immersive media projects, involving sustained independent and autonomous enquiry.
  • Organisation
17.
Synthesise ideas and conceptual frameworks from different sources of knowledge and from different academic disciplines.
  • Collaboration
  • Intercultural
  • Creativity
18.
Demonstrate sophisticated critical evaluation about the aesthetic and communicative properties and content of media artefacts produced.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Students are taught with a wide mix of teaching methods including lectures, workshops; tutorials; group and individual project work, live projects, pitching to industry practitioners; supervised independent learning, open and resource-based learning, multi-media and new media learning, production practice; tutor-led, student-led and independent learning sessions, reading and research. Specialist IT resources and other studio-based resources, open and resource-based learning, immersive technologies and new media learning, production practice and play are an integral aspect of the delivery. Students are assessed through essays, blogs, critical evaluations, reviews and reports; individual and group presentations (oral and technology based); critical self- evaluation; role-analyses/evaluations; individual portfolios of work; individually and collaboratively produced immersive artefacts for a range of audience contexts.

Opportunities for work related learning

It is intended that much of the study will simulate the professional workplace in terms of interim assessments, reviews and landmarks. These will offer the opportunity for formative feedback by staff and peers, thereby mirroring professional practice. The ‘Collaborative Project’ module in semester 2 offers students an exceptional opportunity to begin dialogue with representatives of the creative media industry and respond to briefs provided by them. It is anticipated that on occasions, this will lead to projects being developed beyond the confines of the module with possibilities for students to work in a commercial environment. It is anticipated that members of the cohort may already be working in the creative media industry, thus adding to the professional contacts of the student cohort as a whole. Students are also encouraged to contact individuals and companies working in the creative media sector to seek work or internships.

Programme Structure

Programme Structure Description

Part-time students will complete 30 credits in semesters one & two in both years one & two. The final 60 credits will be completed in the summer semester of year two. All students complete 7001IA Immersive Storytelling in year one semester one and 7004IA Collaborative Project in semester two. All … For more content click the Read More button below.

Structure

Level 7

Entry Requirements

IELTS

RPL

Undergraduate degree

HECoS Code(s)

(CAH24-01) media, journalism and communications