
MA Creative Arts
University of LincolnBrayford Pool, United Kingdom
Course overview
This dynamic and flexible MA course is designed for students who are interested in a wide range of creative subjects, and offers opportunities to specialise while also exploring and integrating multiple creative disciplines. Whether you're passionate about one particular art form or eager to push boundaries by combining and crossing different practices, this course allows you to develop your unique creative voice. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, innovative practice, and critical reflection, you can enhance your skills, experiment across artistic forms, and build a diverse and adaptable creative portfolio.
With a focus on both practical and theoretical learning, this MA provides an ideal environment to cultivate artistic expression, engage in multi-disciplinary approaches, and prepare for a range of professional opportunities in the creative sector. The course aims to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue, creative exchange, and collaborative practice. You can transcend disciplinary boundaries, providing you with broad, culture- and creativity-driven experiences that nurture curiosity, critical thinking, and exploration.
Our commitment to collaboration extends to research initiatives, artistic endeavours, and community engagement, thereby enriching the educational experience and equipping you with the skills and dispositions to thrive as versatile, empathetic, and socially conscious creative practitioner in an ever-evolving global landscape. Across one year, you can develop practical and conceptual skills relevant to your chosen field, in order to prepare for professional practice or further study. You'll be able to locate and analyse your creative identity and professional field, identify relevant opportunities for creative entrepreneurship, and critically evaluate your working methods to make them more effective, efficient, and sustainable.
MA Creative Arts offers the opportunity both to refine and grow discipline-specific skills and experience, whilst also engaging with practitioners working in other areas.
Key highlights
- Specialise in one art form or combine multiple creative disciplines
- Interdisciplinary collaboration with practitioners working in other creative areas
- Balances practical creative work with theoretical and critical reflection
- Build a diverse, adaptable creative portfolio across artistic forms
- Identify opportunities for creative entrepreneurship in your professional field
- Collaboration extends to research, artistic projects and community engagement
Entry requirements
- Degree: 2:1 — to include relevant subject
- Additional condition: interview — If you apply for this course, you will be required to take part in an interview.
- International qualifications — If you have studied outside of the UK, and are unsure whether your qualification meets the above requirements, please visit our country pages https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/studywithus/internationalstudents/entryrequirementsandyourcountry/ for information on equivalent qualifications. Overseas students will be required to demonstrate English language proficiency equivalent to IELTS 6.5 overall, with a…
Scholarships
Chevening Scholarships
Global Postgraduate Scholarship
The Global Postgraduate Scholarship is valued at £2,000 and will be awarded to eligible students as a tuition fee discount in the first year of their studies.
Up to £2,000International Alumni Scholarship
The International Alumni Scholarship is valued at £2,000 and will be awarded to eligible students as a tuition fee discount for the first year of a postgraduate taught or postgraduate research programme.
Up to £2,000Lincoln Alumni MSc School of Health and Social Care Scholarship
£1000 will be paid directly to the student for each year of study for each completed academic year of study, with part-time students eligible for a pro-rata payment.
Up to £1,000
Careers this course leads to
- Artist
- Creative practitioner
- Arts project manager
- Creative director
- Arts and community engagement officer
- Creative entrepreneur
Cost of study
International: £18,800 per year
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to University of Lincoln, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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