This programme is ideal for adventurous students who do not wish to be restricted within the boundaries of a single art discipline. Many artists today, while working primarily in one art, would see their work as informed by other media and traditions. Why study Creative Arts? Creative Arts encourages an entrepreneurial approach to creative practice. It combines the opportunity for original, practical work with the challenges of critical thought and reflection across eight subjects of which you choose two: * Art * Ceramics * Mixed Media Textiles * Visual Design * Creative Writing * Dance * Drama * Music You will be encouraged to explore and develop your own style and creativity and to be as experimental as possible. There will also be an emphasis on translating this into the world of industry. The programme works from two fundamental principles. The first is that you will work with tutors who are practising artists: your teachers will be writers, composers, performers, choreographers, painters, sculptors, textile designers and drama practitioners with good profiles of publications, exhibitions, recordings and performances. They will also have knowledge of the industries in which you later may work. Secondly, Creative Arts emphasises the support of practice by theory. We assume that you are artists who are driven by the desire to create in a variety of media, and much of your time will be taken up with making things; theoretical elements are aimed at supporting and enabling your personal practice. Ratio of applications to places No. of applicants (2011): 528 No. of places (2011): 70 National student survey results Satisfaction with teaching for courses in this subject area (2011): 85%

Creative Arts students have gone on to become visual artists, dance practitioners, arts administrators, composers, writers, teachers, lecturers, and workshop leaders. Some Creative Arts students have maintained their spread of work across both subjects (for example, film-maker Kathy Hinde has also been active as composer with her music played by pianist Joanna Macgregor). Others see themselves as primarily a practitioner in one subject, but with their work informed by their experience in the other area. Collaborative working, which is encouraged and supported in the programme, has an additional career benefit, in that you have two industries through which your work may reach a public, rather than one. Since 2010, employers such as Gap, LK Bennetts, Jasper Garrida Fashion and Hampstead Theatre have recruited graduates from this course. Students have also gone into roles including In store Visual Merchandising, Theatre Assistant, Assistant Knitwear Designer and Craft Teacher.