MA Learning & Teaching in the Creative Industries

Core module – ITE pathway only

You will engage in a broad range of learning and teaching techniques suitable for roles in post-14 education, developing your skills in planning, teaching, assessing, giving feedback, and supporting different forms of learning. No prior teaching experience is assumed.

Leading Educational Change

This module focuses on the concept and practice of leadership within contemporary education, adopting an individualised approach to help you ‘learn to lead’ and ‘lead to learn’.

You’ll investigate a personally significant leadership challenge, with support from colleagues and peers. Assessment is negotiated depending on the challenge investigated (written and/or multimedia).

Core module on both pathways 

This module explores what ‘creative education’ really means. What is learning, and what makes it ‘effective’? Does learning differ across people, subjects and settings? And, taking these questions into account, how should we teach?

The module examines these and related questions, encouraging you to consider the ‘how’ and ‘why’ behind effective learning. It will help you develop a deeper understanding of how learning happens and how you can adapt your teaching to meet the needs of your students, subjects and settings. Assessment is through a personal learning journal.

Core module – both pathways

You’ll learn to use different methodologies of qualitative and practitioner research to better understand and answer bigger questions about creative education. Assessment is a research proposal, which can feed into your final dissertation or project.

Core module – ITE pathway only

This module brings together all your previous teaching activity from the MA, giving you opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge & skills in line with sector standards. This is assessed through a portfolio of prior work on the MA, and a final professional conversation that establishes your professionalism as an educator.

Core module – both pathways

Develop your own short course to use professionally, suited to your own choice of academic or professional setting. We examine digital and blended learning approaches, as well as designing individual and collaborative learning. Assessment is via a portfolio: you create and evaluate your own short course of study.

Optional module – EE pathway only

Develop as an effective coach and/or mentor in one-to-one settings, exploring person-centred techniques for partnering with learners. You’ll practise your own coaching/mentoring work throughout the module with professional supervision. Assessed by a reflective portfolio of practice.

Core module – both pathways

Produce an extended piece of educational research exploring an area of your academic interest or professional practice, supported by regular peer-led seminars and individual tutorials from an experienced research supervisor.

Standard Entry Requirements

• Age: All applicants must be 18 years or older at the time the programme begins.
• Education: A 2:2 honours degree from a UK university or overseas equivalent.

Applicants must also submit:

All applicants will be subject to interview, and a portfolio will also be requested for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). 

A personal statement of at least 500 words. The MetFilm School online application form details the information that your personal statement must include.

Students Not Meeting Academic Requirements

Students without a degree, but who can demonstrate relevant industry experience or a degree below a 2:2 equivalent are still able to apply.

If you meet certain criteria, you may be eligible for a contextual offer with reduced entry requirements.

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Graduates will be qualified to work as teachers, tutors, administrators, and leaders in creative arts subjects at Further Education and Higher Education levels.

They will also be able to use the course to develop their self-employed careers, which could include one-to-one teaching, creative workshops, curriculum consultation, or developmental coaching.

Those who go on to gain QTLS status via the Education & Training Foundation are also legally qualified to teach in UK Schools.

As with all BIMM University MAs, graduates can also go on to study at doctoral level (PhD or EdD) to progress their academic careers as educational researchers.

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