MSc in Creative Computing

This course includes or offers the following modules. Please check the program document (below the main image on this page) for more details on which modules are core, required, or optional.

• Hackspace
• Research Methods
• Creative Leadership
• Digital Storytelling
• Devised Project I
• Devised Project II

What you'll learn

Overview

MSc Creative Computing aims to develop high-value postgraduates who can enhance the output and trajectory of any digital agency. You'll be taught the key skills needed to conduct creative research, shape a product to the 'market ready' stage, and collaborate productively with practitioners within unfamiliar fields.

This is a flexible course that responds to your practice - whether you're a game designer, software developer, animator, or web technologist. You'll undertake modules designed to enhance your understanding of the creative industries and digital creativity more widely, yet on your terms, with an emphasis on deploying your own creative and technological skills in new, rewarding contexts.

MSc Creative Computing helps you become a well-rounded and capable creative technologist with the capacity to generate original ideas, evaluate their sociocultural and commercial impact, prototype, and then identify the most effective routes to market. Throughout the process, you'll be supported by a team of talented artists and developers who each have significant experience in the field of creative computing in both research and industry settings.

Course structure

Hackspace

Hackspace takes an experimental approach. You'll develop demonstrable proof-of-concept artifacts that target a selection of creative tools and technologies.

Research Methods

Gain essential knowledge of project scoping, objective setting, data collection and analysis methods, and effective documentation.

Creative Leadership

Learn how to lead teams to shape original social enterprise or commercial ideas for the marketplace. You'll work with members of the Creative Computing subject team to project manage and support undergraduate students who are negotiating an in-house creative incubator.

Digital Storytelling

Interrogate the intersection of storytelling and digital creativity. You'll collaborate with Creative Computing and Publishing students to create artifacts that inform, persuade, or entertain.

Devised Project

A practice-led research investigation in the field of Creative Computing. Here you have the opportunity to refine your creative and technological skills, apply research and development skills, and importantly, create something that nobody has created before.

How will I be assessed?

MSc Creative Computing is entirely coursework assessed. You’ll deliver a varied and balanced collection of computing artifacts, tech experiments, and interactive experiences. Project work is supported by contextual essays, research reports, reflective commentaries, sketchbooks, development documents, and presentations.

Careers for MSc Creative Computing graduates are wide-ranging. Options include:

• Creative technologist (various roles)
• Roles within digital marketing
• Web and mobile app development
• Producer roles within digital agencies
• Computer graphics designer
• Interface and interaction designer
• PhD study

How will I be taught?

You’ll be taught through creative workshops, technical labs, seminars, and individual mentorship. In addition, there are opportunities to engage students studying BSc (Hons) Creative Computing as well as key players in various digital agencies and tech companies in the South West.

Course length

One year full-time or two years part-time.