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BA (Hons) Business of the Creative Industries
BA (Hons) Business of the Creative Industries

BA (Hons) Business of the Creative Industries

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  • Level:3-Year Bachelor's Degree
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Admission Requirements

Entry Requirements

  • A levels, ABB

  • Access to Higher Education Diploma, 30 credits at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher

  • BTEC National Extended Diploma, DDM

  • Cambridge Pre-U, D3, M2, M2

  • European Baccalaureate, 75% overall

  • International Baccalaureate, 34 points

English Requirements

If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:

  • IELTS (Academic and Indicator), 6.5, with a minimum of 6.0 in each component

  • C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency, 176, with a minimum of 169 in each component

  • Duolingo, 110 overall, with a minimum of 100 in each component

  • GCSE/IGCSE/O level English Language (as a first or second language), Grade C

  • LanguageCert International ESOL SELT, B2 Communicator High Pass with a minimum score of 33/50 in each component

  • PTE Academic, 61, with a minimum of 55 in each component

  • TOEFL, 87 overall, with a minimum of 21 in each component

  • Trinity ISE III, Merit in all components

 

Course Information

Develop the leadership and entrepreneurial skills to manage and inspire the UK's creative industries. Combine advanced business knowledge with practical production and insight into film, television, theatre and interactive media.

The creative industries are a major UK success story. Together film, television, theatre, games and music contribute £110 billion to the national economy every year. These industries are always on the look-out for talented graduates with business skills to continue the UK's growth as it develops new international partnerships and enters new creative markets across the globe. 

Drawing on our expertise and our extensive industry contacts, with teaching that intersects with production-oriented activities, you'll develop the experience required to successfully initiate, drive and manage creative projects and businesses in this exciting area. You can explore your own creative potential - on screen, stage, or in interactive media - while acquiring the knowledge of leadership, marketing, finance and the law that is in high demand in creative sectors across the UK and the world.

You'll graduate with the expertise to become a creative business leader ready to work with talented actors, writers, directors and designers. Your possible career paths may include becoming a producer, TV or film commissioner, or event programmer, or working in advertising or marketing and distribution within the creative industries.

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Year 1

Your first year will give you a detailed overview of how the creative industries are structured from organisational, financial and policy aspects, together with some introductory insights into the creative objectives and practices of our key industrial focuses: film and TV, the stage, and the worlds of games and interactive media.

Core modules

You will take core modules, which may include:

  • Business for Screen 

  • Content Development 

  • Story 

  • Creative Materials 

  • Introduction to Screen Production Methods 

  • Business for Performance

Year 2

You'll work on advanced business skills relating to the creative industries: the projection of creative leadership, the management of creativity, the financing of innovative creative work, the policy and industrial contexts in which creativity develops and finds its opportunities, the workflows and technologies that allow creative work to achieve its ambitions. 

You'll take option modules that allow you to explore your own commercial, cultural and creative enthusiasms. You'll be able to take option modules from our Department of Music also.

Core modules

You will take core modules, which may include:

  • Creative Business Leadership 

  • Creative Business Methods: Finance, Planning and the Law 

  • Creative Business Strategies 

Option modules 

You will take a selection of option modules, which may include:

  • Theatre Texts and Contexts

  • Filmmaking

  • Political Theatres

  • Current Issues in Film & Television

  • Current Trends in Theatre: New Writing, New Practices, New Contexts

  • Theatre Design and Production

  • The Discipline of Genre

  • Interactive Media and Society

  • Studio Production

  • Programming for Digital Media

  • Gaming: Industry and Culture

  • Global Producing Contexts

  • Creative Producing

  • Options from the Department of Music

Year 3

You'll study a number of core modules and will explore brands, marketing and contemporary convergent promotion and development strategies. You'll take part in a group project which will develop your collaboration skills, essential for the creative industries. This project can be taken with other creative business, film and television or theatre students and you'll be able to apply your entrepreneurial and creative expertise to the work. 

You’ll specialise with an option module and take an individual project. You can tailor this project to your own interests, such as writing a business portfolio, developing a screen, stage or interactive project or completing a dissertation. There will be essential sessions on how to design and develop your research, and you'll have one to one supervision with an academic or industry specialist throughout your project. You'll be able to choose from option modules offered by our Department of Music also.

Core modules

You will take core modules, which may include:

  • Brands and Marketing

  • Research Skills for Creative Industries

  • Individual Research Project

  • Group Project

Option modules 

You will take a selection of option modules, which may include:

  • Directing for Theatre, Film and Television

  • Esports Content Production

  • Theatre Design and Production

  • Theatre Texts and Contexts

  • Current Issues in Film & Television

  • TV Research Skills

  • The Future of Story: Storytelling in the Digital Age

  • Interactive Media and Society

  • Advanced Budgets and Schedules (with Movie Magic)

  • Creative Producing

  • Global Producing Contexts

  • Options from the Department of Music

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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

The majority of our graduates move into staff or freelance roles in the film, television, video and interactive media industries. Likely roles include:

  • Producer in film, theatre, television or video games

  • Film or TV commissioner, scheduler, event programmer

  • Executive in leading creative institutions and media companies

  • Marketing, distribution

  • Advertising

  • Creative business leader

Ability to settle

Overseas Student Health Cover

Insurance - Single: 300 (£) per year

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