BSc Hons Multimedia (Single and Combined Honours)
Programme leader: Tony Sampson
Multimedia grows out of the convergence of industries (telecommunications, computing and media); disciplines (IT, design and media communications); and technological forms (IT systems and networks, hardware and software, sound, text and moving and still image). Developments in multimedia raise questions about the character of communication, entertainment, education, work, the economy and our identities and communities. All of these issues are addressed in UEL's BSc Hons Multimedia.
UEL's BSc Hons Multimedia runs alongside our BA Hons Interactive Media (see below). Both programmes share modules about interactive multimedia concepts and practices. The difference between the two programmes is that our BSc Hons Multimedia also includes IT skills, IT concepts and theories about the relationship between ICTs and society (for example, programming, scripting, databases, IT companies and working practices), whereas our BA Hons Interactive Media includes media production skills and media concepts and theories (for example, sound, video, interactive television, questions of representation, identity and body/machine relationships).
The following subjects are covered within the single honours programme:
ways of understanding the relationships between technology and society
- digitalization and interactivity
- the information superhighway
- the convergence of technologies and the merging of companies
- new forms of communication, community and identity
- the implications of technological change for education, work and leisure
- webpage production, CD-rom production and image manipulation
- programming, scripting and database production
- website management and maintenance
- working with clients and working in groups.
Throughout their time on the BSc Hons Multimedia, students get the chance to work for real clients as part of their studies, which means they develop content for their portfolios, as well as other skills to help get a job after graduating. Graduates of the BSc Hons Multimedia have gone on to work in web design, multimedia and IT companies, to teach multimedia and to undertake postgraduate study. Some run companies' websites, others work on multimedia innovation projects and others have become freelance multimedia practitioners. Here are some of the things that our graduates have said about the degree:
I realised when I was having my interview for my current job as a web designer how all of my programmes fitted together. I was asked questions which I answered by drawing on my theory programmes, and my IT and multimedia programmes.
The most important things to me about being at this university were the practical experiences I had, the skills developed, the people I met and the work experience I had: all of these assets have made the whole thing completely priceless.For further information, see www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/programmes/bsc-multimedia.htm
