| BSc (Hons) ICT with Media |
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning outcomes indicate what you should know and understand, and be able to do on successful completion of the course. These have been developed with reference to the Computing subject benchmarks. As such, you will develop the following:
- Knowledge and Understanding of information and communications technologies and the scientific principles that underpin them; the principles of underlying hardware and software; knowledge of and competence in a range of programming and scripting languages and software applications packages, databases, networking, and systems administration; knowledge and awareness of contemporary media products and the contexts within which they operate; major UK media institutions; the development and use of technologies for sound production and reproduction; the relationship between media practice and socio-political and cultural issues; a critical understanding of relationships between representations of societies and the media forms within which those representations are constructed; an understanding of the system aspects of telecommunications and networks, and their implications in influencing the development of digital media.
- Discipline Specific Skills in developing well-structured information resources across the range of digital delivery systems; competence across the range of ICTs to ECDL level; fundamentals of video and audio production and their technical underpinnings; relational database design; programming in a major object-oriented language; scripting languages; virtual environments; multimedia and web interface and application development; computer networking and systems administration; ability to research a given topic making appropriate uses of information sources, to contextualise and interpret media images, and to identify the key elements of the relationships between UK media institutions, state, and government; an understanding of key critical approaches to analysis of the mass media; an appreciation of the roles of individuals as both producers/editors of media communications and as analysts/critics of media products; the ability to look critically and objectively at one’s own work using more advanced theoretical perspectives, and to peer edit colleagues work; and the ability to anticipate basic characteristics of telecommunications and network systems.
- Personal and Transferable Skills in data management & presentation; interpretation of information; IT and communication skills; creative and systematic problem solving; reflective and enquiring learning; teamwork & leadership; effective project management; and personal management.
An optional placement year, normally taken between Stages Two and Three, will enable you to extend and apply your learning in an appropriate industrial context, and gain first-hand experience of how your skills might be applied in the workplace.