Programme
BSc Hons Interactive Multimedia Design
Interactive Multimedia Design (imd) is an innovative programme that demands a special type of student and commitment.
The aim of this programme is to produce interactive multimedia design professionals who are skilled on three main themes, design, practical multimedia development and technical underpinning. This is an aim that the programme has successfully met for a number of years, while earning the respect of the local multimedia industry.
Students studying interactive multimedia design will have the opportunity to develop expertise of current and emerging concepts, practices, tools and technologies relevant to the design and production of interactive multimedia, while developing an understand of the relationships between design and information technology principles and practices that are core to today's growing multimedia, web and new media industries.
The course will provide trained graduates who understand and can synthesise design principles and practice, and information technology. In particular, they will be conversant with aspects of computer-based interactive multimedia, including practical creative skills and theoretical awareness of the complex interplay of social, economic, psychological, technical and aesthetic issues underpinning the subject.
Programme Structure
The programme takes four years to complete and is taught jointly by staff from the Faculty of Computing and Engineering, and from the Faculty of Art, Design and the Built Environment. This approach to teaching means that imd students benefit specialist teaching from professionals within each of the programme’s core subject areas.
During years one and two of the programme students learn and practice core subjects including multimedia technologies and authoring, interactive programming, imaging and an understanding of the role of design in multimedia.
Students then spend year three on industrial placement gaining valuable experience of applying what they have learnt so far an developing new skill that are best taught in the workplace.
Finally, in year 4 students learn advanced and specialised multimedia concepts and embark on a major project that forms the capstone of the portfolio of work they have compiled during their studies on the programme.
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