Turn your creativity into your career. Choose the Master of Creative Arts that’s ready when you are.
Deakin University’s new course, Master of Creative Arts, which began in 2015, promotes multi-disciplinary learning and provides students with a wealth of knowledge and experience to pursue a critically engaged creative practice.
Patrick Pound, Master of Creative Arts Course Director and Senior Lecturer of Photography explains: ‘graduates emerge with a high level of traditional academic research skills alongside a high level of creative practice-led research. This balance is essential … in a demanding and ever changing field’.
A sophisticated skill-set is developed through a flexible approach to learning. Students can work across seven different areas: visual arts, photography, film and television, animation and motion capture, visual communication design, dance or drama. As Pound states, the advantage of this is ‘a fantastic cross-pollination of ideas … critical thinking and creative outcomes.’
Working across genres also encourages debate as Pound explains: ‘The way a film-maker handles space might be discussed with a theatre director, a lighting designer and a graphic artist. The way a dancer carves out space might put the ways a photographer employs space on a two-dimensional plane to the test’.
Importantly, the Masters of Creative Arts degree fosters critical engagement. It begins with students discussing the works of others and ends with students discussing their own. As Pound says: ‘we explore where they stand as creative practitioners so that they can stand behind their work with confidence and sophistication’.
Deakin’s Creative Arts teaching staff are experts in their field who provide students with valuable industry insights and contacts. For example, photography students meet important figures in the art world such as the Director of the Centre for Contemporary Photography or a curator from the National Gallery of Victoria.
State-of-the art technology at Deakin means students are ‘spoilt for choice’ in terms of materials and technologies as Pound explains. For example, photography students can access ‘everything from a professional lighting studio to a walk-in pinhole camera. They can photograph down a $50,000 microscope or through an observatory telescope. They can produce a dance work or a drama in a professional theatre or develop an animation in the motion capture lab’.
The Master of Creative Arts is offered at Deakin’s Burwood and Geelong Waterfront campuses, with the following disciplines available:
Burwood (Melbourne): Animation and Motion Capture, Dance, Drama, Film and TV, Photography, Visual Communication Design and Visual Arts
Waterfront (Geelong): Photography and Visual Arts
For more information about Deakin’s Master of Creative Arts www.deakin.edu.au/study-at-deakin/find-a-course/creative-arts
