24 monthsProgramme duration
23,300 EURTuition Fee/year
Feb, SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Communication and Media Studies
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
Creative Intelligence & Technology (formerly Media Technology) is where science and creativity meet. You are encouraged to formulate your own scientific questions and translate personal inspirations and curiosities into research projects.
In the
Creative Intelligence & Technology master's programme we offer you a place where students, artists and scientists do research by creating innovative solutions, inspired by results and principles of science. To achieve this, the curriculum focuses on creative exploration and on the understanding of science and technology. The programme encourages you to draw from the knowledge available throughout Leiden University and the ArtScience programme of the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. After graduation, you are prepared for any future career involving creative and critical thinking, and in particular for a future in scientific research.
Are you looking for an MSc programme where creativity, technology and scientific research are key concepts? Our master's programme
Creative Intelligence & Technology is the right choice. You will work with students from different backgrounds in a creative environment where the goal is to stimulate innovation and creativity in scientific research by the innovative application of technology.
Read more about Creative Intelligence & Technology on the Leiden University website
Programme overview
Main Subject
Communication and Media Studies
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
Creative Intelligence & Technology (formerly Media Technology) is where science and creativity meet. You are encouraged to formulate your own scientific questions and translate personal inspirations and curiosities into research projects.
In the
Creative Intelligence & Technology master's programme we offer you a place where students, artists and scientists do research by creating innovative solutions, inspired by results and principles of science. To achieve this, the curriculum focuses on creative exploration and on the understanding of science and technology. The programme encourages you to draw from the knowledge available throughout Leiden University and the ArtScience programme of the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. After graduation, you are prepared for any future career involving creative and critical thinking, and in particular for a future in scientific research.
Are you looking for an MSc programme where creativity, technology and scientific research are key concepts? Our master's programme
Creative Intelligence & Technology is the right choice. You will work with students from different backgrounds in a creative environment where the goal is to stimulate innovation and creativity in scientific research by the innovative application of technology.
Read more about Creative Intelligence & Technology on the Leiden University website
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Graduates have attained the following general learning outcomes:
a. theoretical and practical skills in more than one specialist area
b. the ability to make an independent analysis of scientific problems, analysis of relevant specialist literature, formulate verifiable hypotheses, and set up and carry out research and critical reflection on one’s own research and that of others;
c. the ability to interrelate and integrate various areas of computer science, artificial intelligence, creative and performative arts with relevant aspects of philosophy, cognitive science, and linguistics;
d. the ability to present clearly, verbally as well as in writing, one’s own research results, and the ability to communicate with colleagues and to present their research results as a contribution to a congress or as (part of) a scientific publication;
Lectures, seminars, research projects, exhibitions, master's thesis.
Graduates are trained in scientific research methods, creative development of ideas and products, working as an individual and within a team. The working perspectives are various. Some of our students aim at a scientific career, and strive to be a PhD student in Leiden or elsewhere. Graduates can pursue a doctorate. Other students will work in the fields of IT, arts, product design or communication. Some of them will be performers, teachers or consultants, some will run their own companies.
- PhD researcher
- Creative entrepreneur
- (digital) artist
- Lecturer in higher professional education
English language requirements: IELTS 6.5, minimum 6.5, with a minimum of 6.0 for each of the components Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking; TOEFL internet-based 90, internet based 90 (with a minimum component score of 20); Cambridge English 180, Cambridge English Exam C2 Proficiency, or C1 Advanced with an overall score of 180, with a minimum of 169 for each individual subsection; Cambridge English 180, Cambridge English Exam C2 Proficiency, or C1 Advanced with an overall score of 180, with a minimum of 169 for each individual subsection.
- Holland Scholarship
- Leiden University Excellence Scholarship (LExS)


















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