The MA CDDC programme lasts for 48 weeks. Each course starts in September and ends in August of the next year. In October, December, June and August formal assessments will be held to assess progress on the course. The course splits roughly in two:

• From September – December you will work on the group project, a challenging assignment from an external party in the professional field. At the start of the course you can subscribe to the varied project portfolios offered by the faculty.

• In the second half of the course, January – August, your focus lies in the graduation project combined with a supportive piece of critical writing, the supportive narrative. Supportive units and activities will be scheduled around these two major course components.

I. GROUP PROJECT MODULE
In the Group Project Module, the design and development of (multi) media- & musicproductions is the main activity. You work – either in a multi-disciplinary team or on an individual basis, as a composer for several projects on the design and development of state-of- the-art applications, creative artefacts or a project portfolio. Most projects are externally brought in by client institutions from the creative industry. This project covers all stages from pre-production, production through to post-production.

It includes activities like:
• Weekly meetings with project supervisors;
• Concept development and realisation, production planning, project design and delivery;
• Different tasks in the production process: management, media design, scenario, composing, programming, testing, etc.;
• Presentation techniques.

There are four strands in this module:
• Group Project (portfolio);
• Supportive studies: Context and repertoires;
• Supportive studies: Project management;
• Supportive studies: Methods of research.

II. GRADUATION PROJECT MODULE
For your graduation project and supportive narrative, you will conduct self-directed research on an individually assigned topic of your choice. This will result in a creative artefact. In support of this process of research and creation, you will write a supportive narrative to provide a substantial piece of work in which both critical theory and practice can be demonstrated and which will function as a critical underpinning of your project development.

Characteristics of this module:
• To define a personalised project on the basis of an original idea;
• To conduct research in making and writing, bringing theory and practice together;
• To conceptualise and realise the project;
• To produce the project, including post-production, and write the supportive document;
• Regular consultancy meetings with your supervisor;
• Ability to team up with other experts in the MA DDC environment for your project. For the graduation project, you may work together with others as long as your individual contribution to this project is clearly supported through evidence for assessment;
• Learn to plan and manage independently your individual research topic;
• Learn to be critical and to translate critical reflections;
• Show originality and clarity in the problem definition.

There are five strands in this module:
• Graduation Project Work;
• Supportive narrative;
• Supportive studies: Context and repertoires;
• Supportive studies: Proposal development;
• Supportive studies: Methods of Research

III. RE(PRESENTATION) MODULE
This module covers three strands: Exhibition and Dissemination, Personal Development Plan and Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Transfer. This includes communicating and disseminating your work as a professional to an external audience. Continuous reflective exercises and viva voce representation of yourself and your work are the focus of this unit. The last strand, knowledge transfer, will put you in a teaching role where you share your specialised expertise with other students through lectures or seminars.

Towards the end of August the final MA CDDC viva voce exam will be held. External examiners from the UK will witness the assessment proceedings and report on the quality of the course.