Interactive Media BSc (Hons)

The Interactive Media programme has a focus on academic, media theory informed practice, providing you with technical as well as critical and analytic skills to create new forms of media.

The course content is forward thinking ensuring you are taught futureproofed skills relevant for several industry-based roles and providing you with the knowledge and expertise to help drive the industry forward.

Content covered is varied (see modules for more detailed info) and will include contemporary coding platforms for producing interactive experiences, the use of Adobe After Effects to create motion graphics, the fundamentals of digital design using Adobe Photoshop and InDesign to conceptualise, draft and complete digital designs, the role of narrative in new media and how new platforms and technologies have effected video narratives, how audience responses to narratives can be evaluated and analysed and designing with data. You will construct your own interactive website as part of an Interactive Media Portfolio and work on a major project in your final year planning, researching and executing a significant piece of production work. This will develop your understanding of defined job roles and build a range of resources to help you interface with the media industry more professionally.

After successful completion of Year Two you can opt to undertake a placement year or study abroad (see Careers and Opportunities for more information) gaining a Diploma in Professional Practice (DPP) or Diploma in International Academic Studies (DIAS).

Helping to make your teaching as relevant as possible and get you industry ready, creative, live briefs from industry partners are used in modules, giving you a flavour of real-life working scenarios and what it is like to work for a client.

Taught by award winning staff (international MEDEA award (2018) for excellence in the production and design of media-rich learning resources / Best Use of Educational Technology / ICT Initiative of the Year (2018) / Excellence in Employability /Placement Support (2017) at the Ulster University Students Union Teaching Excellence Awards) we aim to give you the best academic and university experience possible.

Throughout the course a series of visiting professionals from industry will run master classes on specific subject knowledge ensuring you are learning from the experts and gaining a real world insight into what it is like to work in industry and how your skills can be applied. You will also get the opportunity to participate in the Global Game Jam (participants of all skill levels have 48 hours to work concurrently around the globe to create a game), have organised speed production events and inter-disciplinary Hack Days to help support the local creative industries.