Programme Specifications

Programme summary

1. Programme Aims

This course aims to:

• Develop students' knowledge and expertise in a range of digital creative media topics through practical application analysing and evaluating problems and responding to challenges in real time
• Develop students' critical thinking to assess the design, development, evaluation and implementation of creative media applications which are growing in popularity including smart phone applications in response to addressing real world problems/opportunities
• Develop students' critical thinking to assess creative media applications through user interaction techniques, human perception and quality of users' experience assessment methods
• Use action-based learning to provide individuals and teams with employment skills essential to the digital creative media and technology industries

2. Relevant subject benchmark statements and other external reference points used to inform programme outcomes:

•  UK Quality Code for Higher Education, The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, April 2012, especially Part A: Setting and maintaining academic standards:
  • The Frameworks for Higher Education Qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (FHEQ), the QAA, August 2008
  • Master's Degree Characteristics, the QAA, March 2010
  • The Higher Education Credit Framework for England, the QAA, August 2008

• The Quality Code, Part B: Assuring and enhancing academic quality
  • Chapter B1: Programme Design, Development and Approval
  • Chapter B3: Learning and Teaching
  • Chapter B4: Enabling student development and achievement
  • Chapter B6: Assessment of students      

• Master's Degree Subject Benchmark for Engineering, the QAA, 2015
• UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence: The Accred        tion of Higher Education Programmes, Engineering Council UK, 3rd Edition 2014
• UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence: Engineering Technician, Incorporated Engineer and Chartered Engineer Standard, Engineering Council UK, 2013.
• Proposals for National Arrangements for the Use of Academic Credit in Higher Education in England: Final Report of the Burgess Group, December 2006.
• The Northern Ireland Credit Accumulation and Transfer System (NICATS): Principles and Guidelines, 2002.

3. Programme Learning Outcomes

3.1 Knowledge and Understanding

3.2 Skills and other attributes

a. Subject-specific cognitive skills:

C1 understand how to design and develop new digital creative media applications

C2 critically evaluate user interaction techniques with human perception and perform quality of user experience assessments for various digital creative media applications

C3 exploit knowledge to propose advanced applications for a variety of domains and users in creative digital media 

C4 optimise the digital creative media chain for the highest quality of user experience

b. Subject-specific practical skills:

P1 use their deep analytical skills in digital creative media applications development

P2 demonstrate skills in 3D creative media and studio environments, gaming technologies, and 3D media processing

P3 devise techniques and methodologies to assess users' experience and interaction

P4 think laterally and originally to create innovative and practical digital creative media applications

c. Key transferable skills:

On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to...

T1 communicate their work via technological platforms

T2 demonstrate a high degree of subject knowledge that would support a wide research field in digital creative media and their application areas

T3 competently lead digital creative media applications development projects on the basis of the deep technical and  project management  skills they have acquired from the programme                                                   ·

 T4  demonstrate  aptitude  for  generating  new  ideas  and concepts

4. Programme structure

Semester One

Compulsory Modules (30 credits)

Optional Modules (students should select 30 credits)

Semester Two

Compulsory Module (15 credits)

Optional Modules (students should select 45 credits)

Semester Three

Compulsory Module (60 credits)

5. Criteria for Progression and Degree Award

In order to progress be eligible for the award, candidates requirements of Regulation XXI. 

All modules available in the Special Assessment Period (SAP) unless specified in the Module Specification.

6. Relative Weighting of Parts of the Programme for the Purposes of Final Degree Classification

Not applicable.