BA (Hons) Creative Multimedia
A three years full-time course
Are you interested in creating the digital media required for the future?
Developed in consultation with industry professionals, this degree will provide you with the necessary experience and skills to create meaningful interfaces and exciting interactive solutions to enhance and improve the digital media user experience. Human interaction methods, screen and display user interfaces, audio and video, 3D and 2D, are some of the many areas investigated during this course.
The course is supported by extensive making and media workshops and classes take place in a creative studio where exploration, analysis, risk-taking and experimentation can occur.
Top facts
- Aims to provide the creative and entrepreneurial skills required to pioneer and lead the design of our increasingly digitally merged world.
- Taught uniquely between three Faculties - Art & Design, Science & Engineering and Humanities - providing a breath of knowledge and expertise.
- Collaborative practice-based projects.
- Manchester and the North West provide an inspiring location, for both its cultural wealth, and the variety of digital media companies and projects, such as BBC digital media research at the new MediaCity.
You will study
In your first year you will be introduced to the studio-based culture of the course. You will learn the fundamentals of digital and creative art and design processes. Key concepts will be introduced, such as narrative, interactivity, networked environments and collaborative team work. Students will learn from both the School of Art and Design and in the Faculty of Computer Engineering. This is supported by a contextual programme that places the practical projects into a wider cultural, critical and social context. Visiting lecturers offer a diverse range of perspectives across the whole field of creative multimedia.
In the second year of your course you will continue to develop your creative multimedia skills to fully engage with the issues and future developments surrounding digital media culture. This includes web, video, mobile technologies, wearables and other emerging media reflecting the changes in our interaction with each other and society. Set collaborative and individual projects will encourage you to take risks, challenge assumptions and begin to define a distinct approach to their own practice.
There are opportunities for you to undertake overseas study exchanges to partner institutions. You will also experience working within collaborative creative and commercial contexts through a range of cross-faculty and live external projects.
In your final year you will define a self-authored, multi faceted programme of study. It demands a creative synthesis of critical, analytical and practical skills combined with an independent, resourceful and responsive approach to practice. The final project period enables you to produce and showcase a finalized body of work that resolves and communicates their own personal and professional ambitions within a contemporary digital multimedia art and design context.
Advanced technical skills will be offered along with the study of human computer interface design. You will develop a collaborative team approach and further develop your project management and creative production skills.
Assessment
Unit end assessments and practical coursework projects.
Graduates
90%* of art, design and architecture graduates go straight into employment and/or further study.
Graduates of this new course could go on to be digital media designers in interactive applications and web design, social media activists and entrepreneurs, game designers and animators, TV/radio creative content developers and digital filmmakers.
*Source: DLHE survey 2009 for all respondents available for employment or further study and whose destinations are known
Location
All Saints Campus, Manchester
Entry Requirements
| UCAS Tariff Points | 280 |
|---|---|
| UCAS Tariff Points/Grades to be obtained from full A levels or equivalent | 240 at A2 or equivalent (such as BTEC National at Level 3 or Advanced Diploma). If applying using Foundation Diploma in Art and Design a Merit is required. |
| Specific subjects required | GCSE grade C (or alternative) in English Language |
| Access qualifications | A relevant Access to HE Diploma will be considered for entry to this course. |
| Interview required | Yes |
| Portfolio required | Yes |
| International Baccalaureate | 28 |
Fees
UK and EU full-time students: £9,000
Non-EU full-time international students: £11,000
International Fee Band 2
How to Apply
Apply through UCAS.
UCAS Code: W212
All applicants are asked to submit a Digital Portfolio.