Course summary

Explore your creativity and expand your professional skills by entering the creative industries on an Integrated Foundation Year degree. Taught over four years, these courses include an introductory year to build a solid foundation before you go on to specialise in your chosen subject at degree level. If you're interested in taking on a new subject, or have been out of education for a while, then our Integrated Foundation Year courses might just be for you. These four-year courses include an introductory year to help you build the core skills needed for degree-level study. This is a chance for you to let your imagination run wild and explore your creativity, expand your professional skills and develop enhanced subject knowledge. We'll help you nurture your expertise in problem solving, risk-taking, designing and making as you develop your abilities Gain the skills to pursue a career in software development, in the games industry and beyond. Study game development through the lens of computer science on this Computing for Games degree. Building upon industry-standard software, you’ll implement new tools to extend what’s possible with existing engines and program games that push technical boundaries. Working in multidisciplinary teams, you’ll be the one to develop real-time interactive systems, fine-tune the source code and its technical characteristics and devise solutions to problems. You'll be studying at the No. 1 university for game design in England according to the Princeton Review, 2023. You will: Develop technical, design thinking and production skills in your chosen specialism Learn teamwork, leadership and project management skills through a variety of learning environments Develop critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills through the development of unique and innovative projects Complete your chosen degree over a four-year period Study key computing principles and related mathematical concepts, learning how to apply these to your own technical work Get under the hood of video game engines like Unity and Unreal, learning a range of programming languages like C#, Python and C++ Engage with the latest technologies, including procedural content generation, to develop broadly transferable skills Blend creativity and science while developing teamwork and communication skills that are highly desired in the industry Gain an ‘optimisation mindset’ by learning to work within platform constraints Make games with artists, animators, composers, designers, writers and other programmers, developing teamwork and communication skills Study on a course accredited by The Chartered Institute for IT