This MA in Written & Verbal Arts is offered jointly by the Verbal Arts Centre and the University of Ulster and has been specifically developed as the result of perceived demand for such a programme; we have tailored the course to meet needs expressed to us by many writers, facilitators and administrators.

A combination of practical and academic elements the Post Graduate Diploma/Masters degree caters for the needs of two related groups: creative arts practitioners (including teachers) working in schools, libraries, health care etc. and professionals whose task it is to co-ordinate creative enterprises for example in local authorities.

The course includes the following taught modules leading to the award of PG Diploma:
· The Irish Writer in Society
· Applied Creative Writing
· Oral Narrative: Folklore as Process, Communication and Performance
· Creativity: Practice and Promotion

Two further dissertation modules in the form of an investigation into a topic of choice, a portfolio of creative writing work or a case study of an arts event organised and/or promoted by the student can be undertaken to attract the award of M.A.

DURATION AND MODE OF ATTENDANCE

Full Time:
· Postgraduate Diploma - one year
· MA - one calendar year

Part Time
· Postgraduate Diploma - two years
· MA - two years followed by a dissertation (which usually takes one further year)