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Study Details: 1 year 3 months full time (45 weeks across a four-term model)
MA Publishing combines theoretical and practical approaches to publishing media. Creative and entrepreneurial, this course will give you hands-on experience of multi-platform publishing. You’ll gain a holistic and critical understanding of print and digital publishing which you’ll put into practice through project-based working, developing creative content and exploring innovative ways to engage new audiences.
With the opportunity to specialise in magazine or book publishing through your choice of assignments, you’ll be introduced to concepts across both media, building your transferable skillset while exploring the evolution of publishing as a creative industry.
You’ll choose your own journey through the course, developing industry-facing and academic skills before completing a major project that suits your interests.
UAL is committed to ensuring that its students’ knowledge and skills are set within a contemporary personal and professional ethical framework in order they may make positive impact in practice particularly in relation to the UAL Principles of Climate, Racial and Social Justice. These principles help inform our approach to Publishing, developing an ethical awareness in our activity, understanding our impact on the climate and nature, valuing and promoting diverse audiences and identities, and recognising the role of publishing for advocacy and futures thinking.
Offers will be made based on the following selection criteria, which applicants are expected to demonstrate:
Our MA Publishing graduates are highly prized by the international publishing industry, across both print and digital media. The course has an excellent record of graduates entering employment. The heritage of the College and our alumni cut across all sectors of communication, design and media professional practice areas, at home and internationally.
Typically, our graduates enter first level entry jobs across all of the different functional areas of publishing editorial, production, digital and marketing and sales. They are highly sought after by publishing employers because our graduates can hit the ground running and add value immediately. Accordingly, we find that their careers accelerate beyond the normal and they move up to executive and managerial positions quicker than most.
The transferable skills you will gain on this course can be applied to a wide range of management, media and communications areas, functions and sectors. These can be applied across the private corporate and SME sectors, or the public sector, including international and voluntary not for profit organisations. Some of our past graduates have started their own publishing micro-businesses, or have developed careers related to the digital communications sector.
Importantly, besides the traditional functions, the course equips our graduates with the adaptable skills to enter the new jobs that are emerging across media sectors, whether as a digital producer in a well-known book company, an online content editor for a global magazine or a digital marketer for a new media business.
We are committed to ensuring that your skills are set within an ethical framework and are embedding UAL’s Principles for Climate, Social and Racial Justice into this course.
Each course is divided into units, which are credit-rated. The minimum unit size is 20 credits. The MA course structure involves 7 units, totalling 180 credits.
The first stage of the course introduces publishing theory and analyses aspects of content and audience. You’ll explore the publishing process from commissioning and copyright to marketing and production. You’ll learn critical approaches and make connections across your growing holistic understanding of publishing. You will learn about the environmental and social impacts of publishing, including systems thinking around publishing processes, decolonised approaches to publishing activity and the advocacy role publishing can play in bringing about change. You’ll start to explore aspects of research that will underpin your final project.
Surveying the theoretical context and creative industries in which publishing sits, you’ll focus on building your academic research and reading skills.
Taking a practical approach to learning, this unit will support you to explore the traditional commercial frameworks for books and magazines. You’ll analyse and evaluate ways to source and develop content, as well as designing and producing different types of content using print and digital production methods.
You’ll explore ways to analyse and understand markets as well as creative approaches to identifying and engaging diverse audiences for published content. The focus of this unit is on industry-facing assignments.
The second stage of the course provides opportunities to develop creative and collaborative approaches to publishing. With the focus on projects, you’ll have the opportunity to put your learning into practice. Research, practical working and industry-facing activity continue through these units.
You'll have the opportunity to experiment, connect with other creative people and develop your thinking around future publishing applications. Through these actions you will undertake co-creative activities, demonstrating inclusivity and accountability.
Applying your learning so far, you’ll work alongside other creatives to manage a publishing project to a deadline. This project emphasises practical aspects of workflow and project management as well as creativity in collaboration.
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