Undergraduate and postgraduate Arts and Technology courses

Located within Westminster School of Arts, the Arts and Technology subject area builds on the historic legacy of pioneering innovation within arts subjects at the University of Westminster. We view artists as changemakers.

 Our provision runs from Foundation through to PhD study. The area encompasses a suite of exciting new MA Arts courses, an MRes in Creative Practice, and a set of well-established BA courses. The courses within the subject area are focused on making and ‘learning by doing’. 

Undergraduate courses focus upon practice, critical theory, and experimentation. Students can expand their practice through option modules.  

The BA Creative Media Arts empowers students to engage in interdisciplinary art-making, integrating creative technologies from various fields, including computer games, photography, film, AI, and Extended Reality.

The BA Photography and BA Fashion Photography courses enable students to cultivate their professional photographic skills and develop a unique visual voice, working across genres including documentary, art, fashion, editorial, photojournalism, and virtual photography.  

The BA Fine Art Mixed Media allows students to develop distinctive studio practices, while emphasising experiential learning. The course encourages students to engage with practice across multiple media from painting to film, sculpture to performance.

 Our innovative new postgraduate courses are research informed and engage critically with technologies and contemporary global concerns. These include the move towards sustainable practices, questions of identity and concerns relating to social and climate justice. The courses benefit from a shared suite of option modules and provide the opportunity for students from different courses to collaborate with each other.

The MA Expanded Photography engages with the idea of photography as an expanded field, encouraging students to explore technological developments within the field as well as providing an opportunity to refine their practice.    

The MA Art and Emerging Technologies explores experimental applications of creative technologies in art practice, the development of advanced digital skills and their impact on society, culture, and the environment.  

The MA Global Contemporary Arts has been designed to nurture the professional, critical, and collaborative skills needed to pursue impactful, globally-aware and socially responsible artistic and curatorial practices. 

The MRes Creative Practice programme enables students to develop their practical skills and prepares them for advanced research and professional opportunities in the arts and culture industries. 

These courses have been designed in conjunction with Westminster’s prestigious Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media (CREAM). CREAM is a world-leading centre in practice-based, critical, and historical research in art, creative and interdisciplinary practice. It was ranked the UK leader for Research Impact in Art and Design. A substantial number of the teaching staff attached to Arts and Technology are CREAM researchers who are leading artists, filmmakers, photographers, curators, theorists, critics, and designers.

Courses at all levels have employability and professional practice embedded within them. Students are supported to develop an understanding of the creative landscape and of the career opportunities available upon graduation within the creative and culture industries and beyond.    

 As well as opportunities for internships and work placements, students are exposed to industry practitioners through guest lectures, live briefs and opportunities generated through the Westminster Enterprise Network. Undergraduate students can also take an optional year to work in industry in the UK or abroad. We recognise that today’s graduates need to be flexible creative, inventive, collaborative, and agile. Our curriculum develops these skills and means that our graduates can approach their post-university careers with confidence.   

You will join a community of makers, scholars, and practitioners at our West London Harrow campus. Our extensive facilities and substantial studio spaces allow for students to develop ambitious projects. With two galleries on site and a gallery in Central London (Ambika P3), students have ample opportunity to show and engage the public.   

We are accepting applications for September 2025 entry. Details of how to apply can be found here for Undergraduate / Foundation courses and here for Postgraduate courses.