都柏林城市大学

The BSc in Multimedia at DCU is a programme for those who are creative, enquiring, and interested in the creation of engaging and interactive media experiences. Our graduates are highly successful designers, developers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, and scholars.

If, like them, you are intrigued by the relationship we have to media and digital technologies in our lives - and want to explore, improve and expand that relationship - this is the course for you. You should enjoy working with digital technologies, and be interested in problem solving, creative expression, and working in focussed team-based projects.

Why do this course?

• Join a respected programme, Ireland’s longest running degree course in this area, which has retained and built upon its record of excellence.
• Create and critique compelling interactive media, through understanding and using theory and technology.
• Gain insight into the changing field of media production, and acquire the skills to thrive in its many different disciplines.
• Learn from staff with extensive industry expertise, who contribute to internationally recognised research in this field, and who have been awarded for their teaching excellence.
• Shape your BSc in Multimedia by choosing from module options that allow you to specialise in relevant areas of media design and production.

About the course

In the course of your Multimedia degree, you’ll acquire a command of the concepts and practices in digital text, image and sound manipulation, and multimedia authoring. In this way, you will be equipped to contribute to multimedia product development and to manage a diverse range of multimedia projects. You will participate in many group-based projects, reflecting the media design and production industries that this programme prepares graduates for and developing your skills in effective and creative teamwork.

You will:

• develop an understanding of digital media theory, including issues of content and form.
• acquire a command of the concepts and practices in digital text, image and sound manipulation, and multimedia authoring.
• learn to design, develop, and manage a diverse range of creative multimedia projects.

Year One of the programme has a fixed set of core modules that develop crucial production skills in imaging, video, sound, responsive media and information design, as well as a foundation in social and media theory that will inform your studies and work.

Year Two continues your education in relevant theory and in interaction design, allowing a significant specialisation as you choose the degree focus that best suits you from a range of modules in areas such as advanced sound and video production, interactive apps, animation, media spaces, physical computing and more.

Year Three allows further options for specialism and provides support and development for a major project that encompasses the final semester of the programme. These projects are diverse in form and focus, but each becomes a substantial showcase of the students’ creative skill. A public exhibition of these projects takes place in central Dublin each May.

Careers

• Animator
• Digital Project Planner
• Sound designer
• VFX Artist
• Video Editor
• Visual designer
• Web Developer

In these areas

• Advertising agency
• Broadcast production
• Digital Media Agency
• E-Commerce
• Games companies
• Social media
• Web design agency