School of Arts and Creative Industries

Summary

Mission

The School of Creative Industries is one of the largest centres for creative arts education in Scotland, with approximately 1200 students enrolled on a range of undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral programmes. All of these have been particularly successful in attracting high calibre students, many of whom have won international awards and progressed on to become major figures in the fields that we represent.

International role

The School of Creative Industries has a number of overseas collaborations in Europe and China, and two members of staff hold external examiner positions at European Institutions.

Design:
The Design subject area has recently established an annual design project exchange with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zurich, where students spend 2 weeks in each institution on joint projects.

We also have a Design partnership with ZhengZhou University of Light Industry, in China involving collaborative projects, teaching, and student exchanges.

Design students recently took part in the Deutsche Post International Design competition, winning a special award of eu1000.

Screen Academy:
The Screen academy has collaborative partnerships in Beijing and Shanghai

National role

The School of Creative Industries has a strong presence in Art, Design and Media in UK Higher Education, and is extensively involved with projects and activities on a national and local level.

A large number of staff in the School hold external examiner positions at other UK and European Institutions, and work in an advisory capacity with external bodies.

Staff and students across the school are regularly involved with live projects in industry and the public sector, and students also partake in a variety of national and international competitions, most notably the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) student design awards, and the Art and Design Direction (D&AD) Awards.

The Screen Academy Scotland (www.screenacademyscotland.co.uk) is a collaboration between Scotland's leading screen practice education institutions - Napier University and Edinburgh College of Art (eca) and and is one of seven institutions or collaborations designated as UK centres of excellence in film practice education by Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for the Audio-visual Industry.

Our long established Design area has recently received £12000 (eu18000) of funding to partake in the Scottish Six Cities International Design Festival (www.six-cities.com) in May of this year.

Design and Lens Media students exhibit their work at our annual degree show and screenings in Edinurgh every June, and design students go on to exhibit their work at the annual New Designers exhibition in London, every July.

Main focus

Undergarduate (Bachelor) and Post-graduate (Masters, PhD)Design, Lens Media, Communication and Music

Education

Faculties and departments

. Design
. Lens Media
. Screen Academy Scotland
. Journalism, Advertising and Communiction
. Culture, Literature and Publishing
. Music

Bachelor level programs

Design
BDes (Hons) Consumer Product Design
BDes (Hons) Design Futures
BDes (Hons) Graphic Design (Starting Sept. 2007)
BDes (Hons) Interior Architecture
BDes (Hons) Design Studies (Starting Sept. 2007)

Lens Media:
BA (Hons) Photography Film and Imaging

Journalism, Advertising and Communiction:
BA (Hons) Communication, Advertising and Public Relations
BA (Hons) Journalism

Culture, Literature and Publishing:
BA (Hons) Publishing Media
BA (Hons) Culture, Media and Society

Music:
BMus (Hons) Music
BA (Hons) Popular Music

Master level programs

Design
MDes Interdisciplinary Design

Lens Media:
MA Photography (Starting Sept. 2007)

Screen Academy Scotland:
MFA Advanced Film Practice
MA Screen Project Development
MA Screen Writing
PG Cert. Screen Writing

Journalism, Advertising and Communiction:
MA Creative Advertising
MA Journalism

Culture, Literature and Publishing:
MSc Publishing

Research

Research activity and main areas

The School of Creative Industries has active and vibrant research activities accross all subject areas, with staff making regular contributuions to international conferences, publications, books, exhibitions, film screenings, and cultural events along with consultancy work.

Doctorate level programs

PhDs are offered in all of the subject areas

. Design
. Lens Media
. Screen Academy Scotland
. Journalism, Advertising and Communiction
. Culture, Literature and Publishing
. Music

Exchange

Subject areas for exchange students

Under University regulations all students in the School of Creative Industries can apply for an exchange programme for one semester, with support through the erasmus scheme.

Application deadlines

N/A

Teaching languages

English

Semester dates

2006:
Sem 1. 2nd October to 26th January (including 2 weeks Christmas Holiday)
Sem 2. 5th February to 1st June (including 2 weeks Easter Holiday)

Cost of living per month (studying and living)

£500 (eu750 approx)