Multimedia
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.
The degree’s modules will introduce you to a variety of core skills from which you can build and specialise. DCU’s School of Communications has just been ranked in the top 200 communications schools internationally. The only ranked Irish media/communications School in the QS ranking.
DCU Multimedia's balanced grounding in creativity and technology is invaluable in an industry where designers are expected to be an expert in not one, but many fields.
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.
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We have a unique and vibrant culture on our modern campus close to Dublin city centre. We provide state-of-the-art study facilities for all our courses and everything else you need for a healthy, fun and active student life.
Exceptional Facilities
DCU students enjoy exceptional teaching and learning facilities across our 3 academic campuses. These include modern learning theatres, research centres, television and sound studios, classrooms, computer suites and advanced laboratories in the areas of languages, engineering, physics, chemistry and biotechnology, as well as a sports performance centre and a virtual hospital ward.
A Vibrant, Dynamic Social Environment
Student facilities include a superb sports complex with a 25 metre pool, two libraries and The Helix, our renowned performing arts centre. In 2016 we announced plans to invest over €230m in developing new, world-class facilities across our three academic campuses. Already building has begun on an exciting, new €14m Student Centre that will be home to the more than one hundred and twenty student clubs and societies. This commitment to student facilities means that our world-class learning experiences are complemented by a vibrant, dynamic social environment.
DCU Multimedia's balanced grounding in creativity and technology is invaluable in an industry where designers are expected to be an expert in not one, but many fields.
DCU graduate Peadar Gill talks about his experiences as a Multimedia student.
Graduates of the BSc in Multimedia enter a wide array of career paths in production, design, interaction, and research. The programme is well-established and graduates are valued for their knowledge of production and project management, as well as their specialised skills from optional module choices. Alumni of the degree work in a wide variety of roles in creative media, including production for broadcast and online channels, advertising, interface and product design, programming and app development, and a range of consultancy and management. The skills our graduates gain on the programme are highly relevant to the quickly growing and changing market for quality media design and production.
Career Areas:
- Advertising (Creative & Content)
- Animation & Illustration
- Broadcast Production
- Digital Marketing
- Digital Project Planning & Management
- E-Commerce & Online Sales
- Game Design & Development
- Interaction Design
- Product Design
- Research & User testing
- Social Media Content & Strategy
- Sound Production & Editing
- UI (Interface) Design
- Video Effects
- Editing Video Production & Post-production
- Web Design & Development
Requirements
In addition to the general entry requirements for admission to the university the following entry requirements apply
Minimum of H4 in English
In addition to the general entry requirements for admission to the university the following entry requirements apply
GCE A Level C English
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Applications are welcomed from students who have studied at Level 6, Level 7 and Level 8 in relevant areas. Such transfer students may be exempt from certain modules. Please apply directly to DCU using the R10 form. Closing date for applications 1st July.
International candidates are expected to have educational qualifications of a standard equivalent to those outlined above. In addition, where such candidates are non-native speakers of the English language they must satisfy the university of their competency in the English language. For further information on international applications click here.