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Creative Arts

Degree-level creative arts distance learning with OCA

Studying a creative arts degree provides a unique opportunity for a learner to fulfil their creative potential through studying multiple disciplines.

BA (Hons) Creative Arts is a broad, practice-based discipline that enables the development of an interdisciplinary practice exploring a variety of subjects across image, sound, and text and their application within Art and Design practice. As a result, you will have the opportunity to learn how to express your creative voice and situate your ideas within contemporary practice and the wider cultural world.

Studying for our degree provides a unique opportunity to learn what it is to become a creative practitioner, equipping you with the skills to work and think creatively. After completing our degree, you will understand how to apply your creative skills to complex tasks essential for working within various creative industries.

What is a creative arts degree?

The Creative Arts Degree consists of a programme of study that introduces you to a contemporary range of themes, contexts, and creative skills. You can build your skills in disciplines across art, design, photography, moving image, music, and writing.

Our Creative Arts degree is a popular course for students looking to develop critical thinking, reflective and practical skills that are transferable to a wide range of applications. These can include working within the creative industries to find solutions that require interdisciplinary skills, with teams that require practical and academic skills to resolve creative tasks and management roles within a personal studio practice.

Creative Arts was the first degree validated for the OCA over 30 years ago. This is a popular course for students looking to develop interdisciplinary skills, with many refining their creative language alongside their academic studies. Students develop their learning across subjects that define what it is to study the Creative Arts discipline and become interdisciplinary. Therefore, the course will offer students the flexibility to learn and grow in a way that serves their creative aspirations.

Study with one of the UK’s few specialist online arts colleges

OCA’s creative art courses offer students the opportunity to complete a degree at their own pace – leaving with a wide range of new skills as well as a recognised qualification from one of the UK’s few specialist art colleges offering online distance learning.

Find out more about our creative arts degree below.

BA (Hons) Creative Arts

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