Maynooth,
Ireland
Type
Public
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
MA Critical and Creative Media in Maynooth Ireland | Maynooth University
Maynooth University
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Maynooth Ireland
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Qualification
Masters Degree (Taught)
Languages
English
Delivery Mode
On-Campus
Tuition (2025)
EUR
16,000
(c. USD18,475.68)
Attendance
Full-time
Full-time Duration
12 months
This intensive one-year full-time MA program enhances practical abilities, research methodologies, and analytical capabilities while fostering deeper creative and theoretical exploration across various media formats. The curriculum merges critical analysis with innovative creative techniques to address the complex landscape of today's media sectors. It offers comprehensive theoretical frameworks and hands-on methodologies spanning multiple media platforms such as film, digital media, print publications, television broadcasting, and radio production. The program contextualizes these mediums within their historical and societal frameworks, investigating audience interactions, economic structures, and technological advancements alongside practical media production experience.
The flexible course design enables students to customize their degree path.
Participants can select from three specialized tracks: Creative Media, Society and Justice, or History and Culture, or alternatively craft their own interdisciplinary program. The curriculum further permits students to explore personal academic interests through complementary modules offered university-wide at Maynooth University. Concluding the program, students may opt for either a traditional research dissertation or a creative media project, depending on their professional aspirations and academic goals.
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Subjects of Study
Language Requirements
English
IELTS 6.5
Qualification Requirements
Candidates for the MA in Critical and Creative Media must have the equivalent of a 2.1 honours degree in Media Studies, or in a related subject in Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, or Communication and Information Technology.
Applicants from abroad must have a recognised primary degree that is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.
IELTS - 6.5 with no less than 6.0 in each band; TOEFL internet-based test iBT: 90 with no less than 21 in writing and at least 19 in all other sections; Pearson Test of English - 63 with no less than 59 for each item in the Communicative Skills section; Duolingo English Test (DET) - 120 with no less than 110 in literacy, conversation, and comprehension subscores and no less than 95 in production. (This lower production subscore applies to non-EU applicants only), Cambridge Proficiency Cert. - 176+ on Cambridge English scale with no less than 169 in each skill and use of English. Proficiency Certificate, Grade C or better (CEFR Level C1 or C2); Cambridge Advanced Cert. - 176+ on Cambridge English scale with no less than 169 in each skill and use of English Advanced Certificate, Grade C or better (CEFR Level C1 or C2); ETAPP - C1 or better (CEFR Level C1 or C2); Oxford Test of English - 140 with no less than 125 in each skill; Trinity College London ISE - ISE III with at least merit in each skill category.
Tuition
EUR
16,000