Master of Arts - Intercultural Practices
- 2 years
- Duration
- 13,155 GBP/year
- Price
- September
- Start
- June
- Deadline
- Master
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- London / United Kingdom
- Location
Program description
The MA Intercultural Practices at Central Saint Martins is a two-year, part-time, project-based course that fosters intercultural co-operation and critical cultural production through a blend of online learning and in-person residentials. It prepares the next generation of creative practitioners for careers where sharing knowledge across cultural and disciplinary perspectives is essential.
The course encourages practice-based inquiry between spaces, places, and disciplines, developing your agency as a creative practitioner through co-operative and independent work. Informed by UNESCO’s emphasis on interculturalism, it equips you with the capacities to positively respond to difference and pluralism in an interconnected world.
Program structure
- Unit 1: Curiosity and Place
This introductory unit explores your personal locality, background, and context while introducing the course’s culture of interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and intercultural learning. It helps you connect with peers and the online learning environment, while beginning to anticipate your professional development and post‑graduation contribution.
- Unit 2: Stuff of Cultures
Unit 2 asks you to critically appraise your own situation as a creative practitioner, mapping your positionality and intersectionality to strengthen your intercultural practice. You will exchange material with peers to create an intercultural mixed form, negotiating culture, context, and meaning, thereby deepening mutual empathy, curiosity, and shared understanding.
- Unit 3: Consideration and Collaboration
This unit focuses on ethical practices and intention, emphasizing the thoughtfulness, care, and reflection required to work with both human and nonhuman others. You will expand your intercultural practice through dialogue, exploring how relations shape cultural production, and use practice research to create a reflective conversation that embodies intercultural exchange.
- Unit 4: Recollection and Experimentation
Unit 4 focuses on content creation through storytelling, teaching you to craft clear yet complex accounts that amplify diverse and dissonant voices across text, image, and sound. Spanning two complementary projects, the unit combines critical thinking with creative experimentation to deepen and diversify your intercultural learning and practice.
- Unit 5: Putting it into the World: Strategy and Dynamics
This final unit supports you in publicly presenting your practice or study through a forward‑looking, propositional final major project that consolidates the course's intercultural foundation. The sixty‑credit unit unfolds in two interdependent phases, with the last thirty credits dedicated to solidifying your intercultural knowledge and practice for the future.
Price
Tuition fee:
- 30,890 GBP per education*
*Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.
You may need to cover additional costs which are not included in your tuition fees, such as materials and equipment specific to your course.
Requirements for applicants
The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows:
- An honours degree;
- Or an equivalent EU/international qualification.
The course should be of primary interest to practitioners with experience. It is intended to meet the needs of candidates from diverse cultural, economic, and social backgrounds. We welcome mature students.
Applicants are likely to come from a disparate range of academic disciplines and vocational fields that include: performance, theatre, installation art, film, design practice, the humanities, social practices, social practice, community development, or from other areas of interdisciplinary and creative practice.
Applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered.
The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:
Related academic or work experience.
- A portfolio of practice and/or vocational experience;
- A personal statement;
- A strong academic or other professional reference.
Each application will be considered on its own merit.
English language requirements
- IELTS level 6.5 or above, with at least 5.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking
About the university
The University of the Arts London (UAL) produces and encourages the creativity essential for a better future. Its colleges have been at the forefront of innovative education since 1842, creating work with a lasting impact on people and the planet, driven by curiosity, imagination, and purpose.
London is fundamental to UAL's identity, providing a vital context where the university connects and exchanges ideas with individuals from all walks of life. Globally, its creative network influences education, culture, business, and society.
Through innovative research and creative instruction, UAL's faculty and staff bring fresh perspectives to education. The university enables students to build the careers they desire by working with them at every level - from pre-degree to postgraduate, and from short courses to online learning.
UAL's colleges
Ranked second in the world for art and design, UAL comprises six distinct colleges:
- Camberwell College of Arts
- Central Saint Martins
- Chelsea College of Arts
- London College of Communication
- London College of Fashion
- Wimbledon College of Arts
Together, they form a community of creatives, innovators, trailblazers, and storytellers, united in their mission to reimagine the future.
Courses in the visual arts, animation, screen, communication, fashion, media, and performance are available at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
