Course Description

The IOCT Masters in Creative Technologies is a unique creative technologies programme. The course has been carefully designed to support you in developing and strengthening your individual creative technologies practice within the context of the increasingly multi/inter/trans disciplinary environments and collaborative digital world. You'll be part of a diverse and stimulating creative community, based around the purpose-built Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University. This groundbreaking cross-discipline approach pioneered by the IOCT has been described by Jerry Fishenden, National Technology Officer of Microsoft UK, as "a potential blueprint for the next generation of R&D" commenting, "This commitment to bringing together disciplines in new and exciting ways will help develop the UK's reputation as a leader in the creative industries."

The Masters in Creative Technologies is broad in range and flexible in structure. It is designed to appeal to applicants who wish to study at higher degree level and is equally suitable for those wishing to take Masters as a qualification in itself as well as those thinking of moving on to doctoral research. The course consists of a range of modules across the subject areas of Art and Design, Computing Sciences and Engineering and Humanities as well as research training relating to creative technologies research practice provided in the form of the compulsory Research Methods modules. Students will, in consultation with the programme leader and subject tutors, also choose a Major Project topic, which allows them to pursue a particular area of interest.

The course will encourage reflection on creative technologies in the twenty-first century giving you a critical, cultural and contextual understanding of the area as well as practical expertise through offering a range of project-based modules.

For further information or to be kept informed about the IOCT Masters, please contact:
Dr Sophy Smith, Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH.
Tel: (+44) 0116 255 1551, ext. 6864
Email: ssmith05 [at] dmu.ac.uk
www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk