MA International Creative Enterprise
To help you feel prepared for your postgraduate studies, we’ve gathered together a range of course related activities including suggested reading, useful websites and some great things to do right now.
Course overview
This degree will prepare you to work, critique and create in the cultural industries. Covering a range of creative enterprises in an international context you’ll explore policies, philosophies, and practices. You’ll experience an extended placement in a world-class cultural organization as well as participating in an international field trip in the creative economy. You can follow pathways that play to your strengths and interests through critical work, employability, and creative practice.
Suggested reading
You’ll be given lots of information about which textbooks to read and introduced to the University Library, as well as the many ebooks we have for you to access, when you begin your studies in September. We don’t recommend rushing out to buy texts before you arrive. But if you can pick some up second hand, borrow from a library or access online, we suggest:
- Introducing the creative industries: from theory to practice, by Rosamund Davies; Gauti Sigthorsson (2013)
- The Routledge companion to the cultural industries, Kate Oakley; Justin O’Connor (2015)
- Cultural Industries, David Hesmondhalgh (2019)
- The creative industries: culture and policy, Terry Flew (2012)
- Critical Practice: Philosophy and Creativity, Martin McQuillan, (2019)
Useful websites
- NESTA Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
- House of Lords, Communications and Digital Committee, report on creative futures, January 2023
- Culture Liverpool
- The Creative Industries Council
Useful videos to watch
Other things to try over summer
The Lonely Arts Club Podcast, series 1-5