Course summary

OVERVIEW BSc (Hons) Creative Technology and Robotics has been developed in response to the growing demand from creative industry employers for graduates that combine hands-on technical skills with creative and design flair. The course will support you to develop versatile skills in a range of digital technologies in demand by the creative industries from film, animation, games, and virtual, augmented and extended realities. You will develop a solid base of coding skills, and knowledge of how to use and blend creative technologies that will give you access to technically based creative roles. KEY FEATURES

• Share your first year with BSc (Hons) Creative Computing with a focus on the basics of creative coding and technologies that will serve as a springboard for your learning across the rest of the course

• Gain your technical knowledge alongside your creative and design approach, including the fundamentals of design theory, including colour theory, observational drawing and composition

• Experiment with projection mapping or depth sensing technology; AI, XR, physical computing and soft robotics

• Explore data analysis and systems engineering alongside the foundations of HCI design and interactive data visualisations

• Discover game play and no-code animation, UX versus UI, visual programming and graphics user interfaces (GUI)

• Create projects in response to industry briefs and gain an understanding of the potential for, and theory of, computer-based technology in a wide range of digital creative and design sectors

• Develop transferable skills in teamwork, project management, communication and problem-solving through integrated employability and entrepreneurship sessions