Creative Technology BSc(Hons)

Why choose this course?

This course combines contemporary digital technology with visual creativity in moving images, graphics, visual effects and interactivity. It will provide you with the expertise required by the 21st-century digital artist working across various converging media such as the internet, mobile TV and film markets.

You will gain industry-led technical skills, foster a critical appreciation of new media and build the portfolio of work needed to enter your chosen area of the creative industries.

You will be taught by staff from the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing and the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. Both academic and industry-experienced staff teach the practical and conceptual aspects of digital technology as used in contemporary media design and production.

What will you study?

Your studies will be split between:

• design-based subjects (eg visual thinking, multimedia design and moving images);
• science-based subjects (eg light, sound and motion, html and digital compositing); and
• conceptual subjects (eg film studies and creative technology in context).

You will also develop computer skills throughout the course (eg scripting language to make interactive multimedia content). You can choose option modules to specialise in an area of particular interest.

Course director Sunil Chhatralia introduces the course:

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1

• Visual Thinking
• Light, Sound and Motion
• Introductory Film Production
• Visual Structures
• Fundamentals of Computer Imagery
• Numerical and Mathematical Techniques
• Option modules eg HTML Programming, Creative Practice and others

Year 2

• Digital Media Motion Graphics
• Computer Generated Imagery and Sound
• Project, Design and Investigation Skills
• Introduction to Multimedia Design
• Film and Television Studies
• Option modules eg Web Technologies, Design Synthesis and many others

Year 3

• Advanced Multimedia Design
• Digital Media Editing and Compositing
• Advanced Computer Generated Imagery
• Creative Technology in Context
• Computer Animation
• Media Project
• Media Dissertation
• Option modules eg Virtual Reality, Games Production