Our BA Honours Digital Media programme has been designed in consultation with industry to provide students with a curriculum which meets the practical, technical and theoretical demands of a career in the fast-paced creative industries.
Course Highlights
Providing a balance between theory, practice, and creative work is the central focus of this degree. The course teaches a broad range of the latest content production techniques alongside cutting edge contemporary academic debates and methodologies surrounding digital media. Practice-based work includes video production, web design and HTML programming, data visualisation and smart environments. You will also use APIs and analytics to produce, manage and promote content and campaigns through various social media channels.
Programme Content
Theoretical topics of study will include: gender, identity and new media, spatiality and new media, blogging cultures, open and collaborative cultures, immersive and smart environments, social, locative, and mobile media. Practice based work will include: video production, website design, information design, and editing using Abode Creative Suite, Avid and Apple software, visualisation and informatics, and smart environments design. Throughout the course, emphasis is given to producing creative works of a professional, industry-standard and high-quality finish.
Year 1
Social Media and the World Wide Web (30 Credits) - Compulsory
Information Design Online and for Print (30 Credits) - Compulsory
Network Cultures (30 Credits) - Compulsory
Media Analysis (30 Credits) - Compulsory
Year 2
Digital Media Practice (30 Credits) - Compulsory
Digital Media Research Methods (30 Credits) - Compulsory
Digital Cultures (30 Credits) - Compulsory
Visual Cultures (30 Credits) - Optional
Storytelling for Games Cultures (30 Credits) - Optional
Creative Industries Work Placement (30 Credits) - Optional
Year 3
Locative Media and Mobility (30 Credits) - Compulsory
Project Management and Innovation (30 Credits) - Compulsory
Independent Project (30 Credits) - Compulsory
Culture, Consumption and Identity in the Digital Age (30 Credits) - Optional
Open Cultures (30 Credits) - Optional
Gender, Identity and New Media (30 Credits) - Optional
Direncanakan September 2024
Middlesex University Dubai
Dubai Knowledge Park - Blocks 4, 16, 17 & 19,
Dubai,
500697, UAE
Successful completion of the Middlesex University International Foundation Programme (IFP) (equivalent programmes from other Universities/Colleges/Institutes will be considered).
IELTS Academic: 6.0 (minimum 5.5 in each band)
TOEFL Internet-based: 72 (17 in listening & writing, 20 in speaking and 18 in reading)
PearsonPTE Academic: 51
GCSE/IGCSE/O-Level English (as a first or second language): Grade C or Higher
CBSE/ISC boards/NIOS/All state boards: Minimum grade of 65% in English
International Baccalaureate: Minimum grade 5 in English A1 (Standard or Higher Level) in IB OR a minimum of grade 5 in English B (Higher Level)
West African/Nigerian Curriculum WAEC/WASSCE/SSSCE: Minimum grade “C6“