Course summary

Our Digital Media degree offers a blend of practice and theory, teaching you all you need for a future in digital and creative media. After 15 months of leaving our programme 90% of students are in employment or further study, and 95% of those students are in highly skilled work, ranging from Business and Public Sector to IT, Web and Multimedia, and Arts, Literary, Design and Media occupations. Shape your digital media degree to suit your interests and career plans, whether they relate to creative or technical practice or theoretical analysis of digital media, or a mix of both. You can even undertake a work placement to gain experience of this fast-changing sector. Our links with the digital media industries ensure great opportunities if you’re looking to research, design, build or manage the digital and creative media products, technologies and services of the future. Your experience as you move through our degree programme covers four key areas of learning and development: Digital and Creative Media Practice; Critical Analysis and Research; Industry Production and Professional Skills; and Creative Critical Methods. You’ll build a portfolio of practical projects and learn to analyse the impact of digital media technologies on individuals and society. You’ll have the opportunity to gain a range of technical skills using our industry-standard software, including digital design, programming, animation and post-production, combining these with critical thinking, research and analytical skills. In your final year you can opt for a Digital Media project where you will take a creative and critical approach to design and realise a practical piece of work informed by digital methods and using modes of digital and non-digital technologies. Your project can be product, campaign, service, installation, and practice research based, and use, for example: app development; moving image; animation; web design and development; digital sensing; digital arts; immersive and interactive tech; user experience, research and interface design; and participatory and socially engaged practices. Our Digital Media degree is designed to give you the creative and critical skills to engage successfully with digital technology and society as you move into your chosen path of employment.