Колледж Биркбек, Лондонский университет, MSc, Creative Industries (Management)

You complete 8 modules (totalling 120 credits) and write a 12,000-word dissertation (worth 60 credits).

Students on all pathways will start with a compulsory module (The Creative Industries: Theory and Context - Parts 1 and 2) to set the context for the study of the creative industries. You then select a pathway and complete the relevant modules (for details of the Arts and Media and Computing pathways, please see separate programme entries). The Management pathway offers the opportunity for graduates of creative disciplines and other backgrounds, and who share a common goal, to create business value through strategic management, innovation and design. London provides an ideal setting in which to examine the structure, role and entrepreneurship within the creative industries.

You take 3 further compulsory modules and choose 3 option modules.

Full-time modules:

• Digital Creativity and New Media Management
• Intellectual Capital and Competitiveness
• Research Methods in Management
• The Creative Industries: Theory and Context (part 1)
• The Creative Industries: Theory and Context (part 2)

Management option modules:

• Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Innovation and the Knowledge Economy
• Innovation Systems: Networks and Social Capital
• Marketing Communications
• Marketing Principles and Practices
• Perspectives on Organization
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Sport Business and Event Management

Arts option modules:

• Arts Education in Action
• Managing the Arts: Business and Legal Aspects
• Managing the Performing Arts
• The Arts and Education
• Theoretical Perspectives on Media
• Theorising Media Practice
• Theory and Practice of Japanese Creative Industries Studies