Full time
1 year
23-SEP-24
MA - Master of Arts
Publishing
Taught
This creative, industry-focused MA Children’s Publishing course is the first of its kind, offering a deep and immersive learning experience across editorial, sales and marketing, rights and contracts, and design and production. You’ll explore various aspects of the industry such as business strategy, audience and market research, user experience and digital product development, collaboration and project management.
Taught by industry specialists, the course provides a full understanding of the various departments, roles and skills required to work in this exhilarating, diverse and fast-evolving sector. You’ll have access to up-to-date information from industry speakers and field trips to key events, which could include the Bath Children’s Literature Festival and the international London Book Fair.
The course has been carefully designed to offer flexibility. You can tailor your coursework and create a final industry project around your own interests and ambitions.
Overview
At Bath Spa we take an innovative approach to publishing, so that when you graduate your skills will be up-to-date. Working in our industry-standard computer labs you’ll learn to create your own publications, from print to digital, using the Adobe Creative Suite, as well as industry events and experiences, such as live book events and podcasts.
Children’s Publishing involves practice-based, creative experimentation, and intellectual and critical engagement with ideas, research and stories. You’ll learn how to use your creativity, imagination, critical judgement and commercial awareness to conceptualise, shape and produce engaging content. A creative-digital-tech approach is a distinctive feature of the course, drawing on our expertise in both digital and print publishing.
Careers
Children’s and Young Adult books are internationally successful, high-growth areas of publishing in terms of innovation, revenues and employment.
You’ll receive expert advice on developing an appropriate industry CV to accompany your digital portfolio, as well as specialist publishing careers advice.
MA Children’s Publishing graduates will gain transferable skills that prepare them for a wide range of roles within the publishing industry such as:
Editorial
Design and production
Sales, marketing and publicity
Digital content development
Merchandising
Education
For this course (per year)
£8,825
For this course (per year)
£17,065
We usually require candidates to have a good first degree in any academic subject. You may be considered without a first degree if you can demonstrate considerable relevant experience.
Bath Spa University offers a range of taught and research postgraduate courses across its two state-of-the-art campuses. The university’s historic Newton Park boasts ultra-modern teaching facilities in historic surroundings, and its Locksbrook Campus is an innovative and inspirational hub for creative practices. At Bath Spa, teaching and research is centred around student experience. The university places high priority in creating a diverse...more