Undergraduate study
     

Computing & Web

BA (Hons) Web and Multimedia Design

  • UCAS code: GW49 BA/WMD
  • Length: 3-4 years

2012 entry

 

A website is the business shop front in today’s global marketplace – it needs to be attractive, interesting and easy to view. Once inside you want to find what you need quickly and easily. Good website design, combined with creative digital media, can really enhance a business message.

You develop your creative web design skills alongside the use of creative digital design, web development and multimedia technology, content and authoring. You develop professional skills in web and multimedia content creation, post-production and the production of user-centred digital solutions for a variety of platforms.

You gain a good understanding of creative digital imaging and production and manipulation of media elements such as sound, music, video and animation, combined with multimedia authoring, website, mobile and e-commerce development.

How you learn

To support you in your learning we have a dedicated team of highly experienced tutors who have worked in the industry. Some of our tutors continue to work on enterprise projects part-time and feed back what they have learned into the curriculum. This enables you to work on live project briefs, to build up a portfolio of work founded on cutting-edge technology that meets industry needs.

Our e-learning environment brings together all your modules on the course in one handy place, allowing you to pick up lectures and learning activities on and off campus. You can also access feedback on your work and discuss tasks with fellow students on your module. Course announcements and assessments are all accessible online.

How you are assessed

One of the key features of this industry is the need for job applications to be supported with a portfolio of credible and relevant work. Our learning and teaching approach and assessment strategy acknowledges this need, and throughout the course students are challenged with case studies that are directly related to the topical needs of the job market. A range of different assessment types are utilised, but the problems you solve, the tools you will use, the methods employed are the ones you will use in the work place.

Professional placement

A significant step towards employment is work experience. This course is available in sandwich mode where students have an option to undertake a year’s supervised work placement between second and final years.

The University also has a thriving graduate internship programme where Web and Multimedia graduates are encouraged to undertake 3- to 12-month salaried projects.

Career opportunities

This course will lead to a wide range of opportunities across the web and digital media industry. Web and Multimedia teams include digital media designers who can visualise and deliver the idea and concepts. There are clear opportunities for those who can bring to life these ideas though authoring and scripting either within a bespoke development or by adapting existing content managed systems across a spectrum of platforms, mobile, tablet and desktop. You will be able to target specific job roles in areas such as e-learning, e-commerce, multimedia development, interactive content creation or web application development.

Entry requirements

A typical offer is 280 tariff points from at least two A levels (or equivalent). You're expected to come for an interview.

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