This unique masters programme enables you to discover and acquire the key skills required to sustain creative practice in the 21st century. If you are seriously looking for an alternative to being an employee and aspire to meet the challenges of setting up as self-employed in a creative practice or creative venture, then this is the ideal course. The course is interdisciplinary and is designed for those who wish to work in the exciting and fulfilling world of creative sector. This includes those who want to make a creative contribution to society, whose aims and objectives are not primarily focused on commercial outcomes - visual artists, creative writers, musicians, performing or digital artists and recent arts graduates seeking to work in the context of cultural provision. You will benefit from specialist visiting speakers who will help you to support the aspirations and individual needs of each year`s students. You will learn the key professional skills and the applications required to sustain contemporary creative practice including, basic financial management, copyright and intellectual property, communications and the marketing of your work, digital technology and social media. You will develop skills for accessing resources and funding from public, private and charitable organisations and create a five-year Arts Plan to help you establish a strategy to allow you to navigate towards your future aims and objectives. A full range of key skills to advance your creative practice; This includes financial management, legal copyright, self-employment, communications, digital technology and social media plus access to resources via fundraising and explore new routes to your target market with your personal opportunities to develop your creative work.