Creative Media Arts with Foundation
Creative media arts is a broad and practice-oriented discipline that sits at the intersection of visual art, digital production, film, animation, sound and interactive media. It asks how creative ideas are realised through contemporary tools and technologies, and how artists and practitioners working across screen, installation, performance and digital platforms develop a coherent body of work. The field is genuinely interdisciplinary, drawing on fine art traditions alongside computing and design, and it prepares you for a creative economy in which the boundaries between disciplines are increasingly fluid.
At the University of Westminster this four-year full-time programme opens with a foundation year, which provides the academic, technical and creative preparation needed before you progress onto the full degree. The foundation year is designed to welcome students from a wide range of educational backgrounds, building the skills and confidence to engage with degree-level creative practice. From the foundation onwards you will develop both technical fluency across a range of digital and physical media and the critical and conceptual thinking that sustains a meaningful creative practice.
The programme includes a sandwich placement year and embedded work placement opportunities, giving you sustained exposure to the professional creative industries alongside your studio and academic work. Westminster's location in London puts you within reach of one of the world's most active creative economies, and the university has well-developed links with the media, arts and technology sectors.
Graduates of creative media arts programmes work across a wide range of creative and technical roles. Film and video production, animation, digital art direction, interactive design, visual effects, game design, sound design and arts education are all well-established paths. Many graduates combine freelance practice with commercial work, building careers that draw on both their creative vision and their technical skills.
Postgraduate study in fine art, digital media, screen studies, animation or creative computing is also well supported for those who wish to pursue a more research-oriented practice.