Computing & Web

This course gives you an excellent foundation for web design. In Year 1, you study web and multimedia development, learn how to design usable interfaces and study the network infrastructure required to support these applications. Alongside this you develop skills in creating and editing appropriate media content, graphics, video, sound and music for applications.

The second year extends this by furthering your skills in creative design and developing applications for a variety of platforms including desktop, web, tablet and phone. You gain experience of developing open source content management systems and undertake a work-based learning project with the support of our industry contacts and partners.

What you study

In Year 1 you develop skills in a number of core areas which enable you to build on these skills in Year 2 with the potential to transfer to the final year of the BA (Hons) Web and Multimedia Design at the end of the second year. There are no option modules on this programme.

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 also provides us with the necessary industry partners and contacts to provide live project briefs enabling you to gain vital industry-relevant experience.

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.

All the modules deliver the key material in lectures or seminars, alongside specific practical lab-based sessions for each module. In addition further support sessions are timetabled within a workshop environment. These sessions provide additional support across a number of modules.

How you are assessed

An important part of a foundation degree is the opportunity to gain relevant industry experience. Our learning and teaching approach and assessment strategy acknowledges this need, and throughout the course you are challenged with relevant case studies and industry-supplied projects. Two modules (Website Development and Industry Project) specifically prepare students for employment and involve them in working on live projects with industrial partners. A range of different assessment types are utilised, but the problems you solve, the tools you will use, and the methods employed are the ones you will use in the work place.

Career opportunities

This course provides you with professional-level skills in web design, and also expertise in graphics, sound, video and text content production. This enables you to take advantage of the many opportunities for employment in the web and multimedia industries.

Entry requirements

A typical offer is 120 tariff points. You are expected to come for an interview.

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