Our department has strong ties to London's creative industries, making this the ideal place to enhance your existing experience and build a professional network.
Our course lets you develop your existing experience into a BA that will create a pathway for further study or job progression.
We’ll give you the tools to develop your professional practice, help you build your professional network, and enhance your employability through a range of practice-based activities.
Many of our students use this course as a stepping stone to advancing their careers into paths such as teaching qualifications, and seeking promotion at work.
This course is designed to be flexible so it can fit around your existing commitments. Taught through an innovative mix of taught online sessions and virtual learning, you'll receive personalised support to develop your creative practice and build a professional network.
The course will culminate in a major practice-based project, allowing you to showcase your work in a discipline of your choosing. You'll also be able to channel your existing experience into a BA, giving you an excellent foundation to build a career in the creative industries.
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This course is delivered in one year across 3 core modules.
Module one – This focuses on reflecting on your personal professional practice up to the point of starting the course. It offers time and space to think about how far you have come and helps identify where to go next.
Module two – This module helps you plan your own professional research project, learn how to craft a research proposal and literature review, as well as how to use a variety of methodologies. This will also explore key areas of practice to develop further skills and knowledge.
Module three – The final module is where you will undertake an independent professional practice research project around a topic of your choosing related to your professional practice. You will be guided through this research by a supervisor.
This module aims to provide you with the requisite theory, reflective tasks, and collaborative discussion in order to stimulate the articulation of your experiential/academic learning and how you contextualise your professional practice.
You are introduced to theories on reflective practices, modes of learning, and communication including Web 2:0, network theory and connectivism, and ethics.
During ACI3611 you will position your emerging practice using these theories in terms of your own learning approaches and development.
You will contextualise and articulate what your practice currently manifests as could be, and how it fits with your wider educational and professional experiences.
This module aims to use the process of inquiry to contextualise and develop your individual professional practice. It will draw upon research and mapping skills acquired in ACI3611 and ACI3622.
This module aims to build upon the knowledge gained in ACI3611 Establishing of Professional Practice. Having looked at articulating, positioning, defining, and contextualising your experiential learning in the wider ethical, academic, and practice-based fields during ACI3611, ACI3622 supports you in mapping the theoretical frameworks, professional artifacts, methodologies, and ethical considerations in order to identify an area within your practice suitable for a practice-based inquiry.
To find out more about this highly regarded course, please download the Professional Practice, Arts and Creative Industries (specialisation) BA Honours specification (PDF).
We review our courses regularly to improve your experience and graduate prospects so modules may be subject to change.
You'll be taught by an experienced teaching team who have a wide range of expertise and professional experience.
The team includes academics, professional practitioners, and technical staff. Graduate teaching assistants or trained postgraduate research students may also have input into your teaching under the supervision of the module leader.
The course is delivered entirely online through a series of taught sessions, discussion groups and 1-2-1 supervision.
It gives prominence to a number of core themes, which are realised through assignments and interaction between the learning community of students and tutors. There is space provided to reflect on personal practice and explore how it can develop and improve.
You can find out about our learning and teaching activities by accessing our tutor and student blogs.
For one-to-one support, you will meet with either your personal tutor or module leader. We will also share our library of online resources.
Your work will be divided into credits. Each credit is equal to 10 hours of study time. You will complete 120 credits for your year of study. Module one and two are worth 30 credits each and module three is worth 60 credits.
This course is entirely online, so you can study at your place of work, or wherever you have a good internet connection.
Whether you are studying full or part-time – your course timetable will balance your study commitments on campus with time for work, life commitments and independent study.
Outside of teaching hours, you’ll learn independently through self-study which will involve reading articles and books, working on projects, undertaking research, and preparing for assessments including coursework, presentations and exams.
We are experienced in professional practice and our staff are dedicated to creating a lively and useful environment for independent learning. Your independent learning is supported by the library and study hub, laptop hire, and with online materials.
Here is an indication of how you will split your time:
Percentage | Hours | Typical activity |
60% | 180 | Teaching, learning and assessment |
40% | 120 | Independent learning |
Percentage | Hours | Typical activity |
55% | 165 | Teaching, learning and assessment |
45% | 135 | Independent learning |
Percentage | Hours | Typical activity |
5% | 30 | Teaching, learning and assessment |
47.5% | 285 | Independent learning |
47.5% | 285 | Practice-based learning |
Our excellent teaching and support teams will help you develop your skills from research and practical skills to critical thinking.
We are experienced in professional practice and our staff are dedicated to creating a lively and useful environment for independent learning.
Middlesex University has a large collection of resources covering work-based learning and subject-based areas. We strongly encourage our learners to visit the library online when working at a distance to make use of the valuable resources available there.
We strongly encourage you to visit the library online when working at a distance to make use of the valuable resources available there. If you would like to come to campus, our Sheppard Library is open 24 hours a day during term time. And we offer free 24-hour laptop loans with full desktop software, free printing and Wi-Fi to use on or off campus.
Your learning will be assessed regularly and is made up of 100% coursework.
Assessments are based on a range of stated criteria, but we value an overall commitment by you to engage in meaningful dialogue on the issues and topics covered in the course.
We'll test your understanding and progress with informal and formal tests.
The informal tests usually take place at least once per module, from which you’ll receive feedback from your tutor. The grades from these tests don’t count towards your final marks.
There are formal assessments for each module, usually at the end, which will count towards your module and your final marks.
Assessments are reviewed annually and may be updated based on student feedback or feedback from an external examiner.
To help you achieve the best results, we will provide regular feedback.
The fees below are for the 2023/24 academic year:
Full-time: £9,250
Part-time: £77 per taught credit
Full-time students: £15,100
Part-time students: £126 per taught credit
The following study tools are included in your fees:
To help make uni affordable, we do everything we can to support you including our:
Find out more about undergraduate funding and all of our scholarships and bursaries.
1. UK Fees: The university reserves the right to increase undergraduate tuition fees in line with changes to legislation, regulation and any government guidance or decisions. The tuition fees for part-time UK study are subject to annual review and we reserve the right to increase the fees each academic year by no more than the level of inflation.
2. International Students. Tuition fees are subject to annual review and we reserve the right to increase the fees each academic year by no more than the level of inflation.
Any annual increase in tuition fees as provided for above will be notified to students at the earliest opportunity in advance of the academic year to which any applicable inflationary rise may apply.
This course will help you develop your professional practice by:
Our Careers & Employability Service, MDXworks will launch you into the world of work from the beginning of your course, with placements, projects and networking opportunities through our 1000+ links with industry and big-name employers in London and globally.
Our dedicated lifetime career support, like our business start-up support programme and funding for entrepreneurs, has put us in the top 10 UK universities for students who want to be CEOs and entrepreneurs (Hitachi, 2021).
We offer lots of support to help you while you're studying including financial advice, wellbeing, mental health and disability support.
We'll support you if you have additional needs such as sensory impairment or dyslexia. And if you want to find out whether Middlesex is the right place for you before you apply, get in touch with our Disability Advice and Support service.
Our specialist teams will support your mental health. We have free individual counselling sessions, workshops, support groups and useful guides.
Our Middlesex Unitemps branch will help you find work that fits around uni and your other commitments. We have hundreds of student jobs on campus that pay the London Living Wage and above.
You can apply for scholarships and bursaries and our MDX Student Starter Kit to help with up to £1,000 of goods, including a new laptop or iPad.
We have also reduced the costs of studying with free laptop loans, free learning resources and discounts to save money on everyday things. Check out our guide to student life on a budget.
We’ll carefully manage any future changes to courses, or the support and other services available to you, if these are necessary because of things like changes to government health and safety advice, or any changes to the law.
Any decisions will be taken in line with both external advice and the University’s Regulations which include information on this.
Our priority will always be to maintain academic standards and quality so that your learning outcomes are not affected by any adjustments that we may have to make.
At all times we’ll aim to keep you well informed of how we may need to respond to changing circumstances, and about support that we’ll provide to you.