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BA (Hons) New Media Art (3rd Year Entry)

University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Prepare to become a leading creative practitioner with UWSs BA New Media Art program. Youll develop your artistic practices by trying your hand at a range of different creative mediums, including illustration, animation, live media, installations, projection mappings, creative coding, and VR. Over the course of this program, youll create a comprehensive portfolio that will showcase your talents and give you a competitive edge when entering the job market. By keeping up with cultural trends, the BA New Media Art program will equip you with the creative and critical learning skills to effectively explore the relationship between art-making and emerging media technology within social, political, and historical contexts.

General Eligibility

Our Minimum Entry Requirements are applicable to those applicants who have not had an equal opportunity to demonstrate their academic ability at school or college and are known as ‘widening access’ applicants. We also sometimes refer to this type of applicant as receiving a ‘contextual’ offer. We may be able to provide you with a contextual offer if you fall into one of the categories below:

  • You have been in care (care-experienced/care-leaver)

  • You are a young carer

  • government-recognizedecognised asylum or refugee status

  • You are estranged from your family or guardians

  • You live in a SIMD decile 1-4 (SIMD20/40)* Scottish postcode area

Part Time Work Details

20 hours per week.

What You'll Study

1 Year 3

In year 3, you will learn a range of space-based art makings including projection mapping, creative coding, sound art to develop practical understandings and skills of dimensions of space (architectural, algorithmic, cross-modal) meanwhile, optional modules will become available to help you develop your specialism by learning 3D animation, artist moving image or 360 degree film/virtual reality.

In addition to this, you will further develop their academic and research skills through working on practice review, curatorial project, annotated bibliography and research proposal.

2 Year 4

In year 4, you will situate and refine your practice through various contexts including an academic/artistic research, curatorial practice, and creative industries.

In addition to this, you will be encouraged to learn a range of body-based art makings including intermedia and immersive media to develop practical understandings and skills of the physical and virtual spaces. Further your specialism through portfolio development and independent projects.

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

IELTS 6.0 with no skill below 5.5.

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