Minor in
Digital Arts

US Credits

UK Credits

• COMM 4102 Introduction to Content Creation

  This practical course introduces students to key aspects of contemporary media production through the creation of their own podcasts, short film and photographic essay. It focuses on the key skills of photography, audio and visual recording and editing using industry standard hardware and software. Students will learn and develop practical skills offering the opportunity to demonstrate creativity across a range of visual and sonic mediums. They will also be introduced to the history of visual and sonic media (alongside contemporary examples of professional work) and learn key strategies (such as media skills audits) to identify and plan practical work.

• ADPR 5101 Visual Communication Practices

  How do we convey meanings and messages through images? In this practical course using industry- standard design software, students first discuss the process of devising and critiquing creative ideas, and how these can be used to persuade and convince. Visual approaches to narrative and research are analysed before moving on to explore key design principles such as type, colour, layout and composition. Training in industry-standard software is provided, allowing students to produce images to a brief. No prior design or software experience is required.

• FILM 5101 Video Production

  A ‘hands-on’ video course involving most aspects of production from camera work and sound recording to editing, audio design and working within a studio environment. The course develops students’ skills in both the theory and practice of video production through a series of group exercises and out of class individual assignments. During the class students will be encouraged to consider the contexts of their videos through responding to an open brief for one of the assignments. There will be multiple screenings of recent and historical videos as a means of understanding the language of the medium. 

• ARTS 5103 Studio Photography

  This course explores the technical and contextual possibilities of the photographic studio, an environment and set of tools that are as valid to contemporary photographers as they have been historically.

• LIBA 5304 Service Learning: Digital Collaboration

  This course helps students make a real difference in the world. Service-Learning as experiential learning combines community service with academic study. This course will apply service-learning to the production of digital work engaging with organizations and communities outside of the university. It equips students to identify the ranges of opportunities for innovation and employment that digital skills offer. Students will work on live projects and challenges to address real-world issues and critically reflect on their role as agents in communities and as legal and social citizens. Skills will be gained from working on a project with charities, NGOs, or non-profit organisations on citizenship concepts which will enable the student to critically reflect through service-learning. This course builds professional, entrepreneurial and personal skills to engage with a variety of stakeholders. This course is underpinned by JEDI approaches to justice, equality, diversity and inclusion across the global community.

• FILM 6101 Advanced Digital Video

  The course gives students the space to design their own projects within an open brief that allows them to develop their own interests as a filmmaker and consider the context they intend to work within in the future. Alongside the student-led structure of the class, students will gain advanced skills in using the tools of contemporary production including cinematography, colour grading and audio production, and will need to carefully consider how they apply this new knowledge to their own projects. As part of the class students will need to consider the distribution of their projects, culminating in a collaborative public event.

• COMM 6102 Creative Collaboration

  ​​In this practice orientated course students will work together as a group to develop a body of work making use of their individual academic, communicative and technical skills (visual, sonic, journalistic, graphic), while developing and practicing collaborative skills. It will engage students with a broad historical, practical and theoretical appreciation of what it takes to work in the 21st century media and art world. Making use of London as a ‘second classroom’, the course will involve analyses of art and media spaces and trips to a collection of creative organizations; these include not for-profit arts institutions and media centres, as well as commercial galleries, auction houses, art fairs, recording studies, newsrooms. Students will engage with current discourse related to curatorial practices, management skills, the international art market, arts policy, as well as the educative, social, and regenerative potential of working within the arts. ​