Design And Digital Arts

BDes (Hons) Full time

Course Overview

UCAS code: W290
Duration: 2 years
Study type: Full Time
Napier code: 54112BH

Focusing exclusively on digital visual media, Design & Digital Arts provides an opportunity to develop skills specifically for the creative industries – building websites, producing design visualisations, moving image enhancement, animation and digital interfaces. Recruiting directly from HND design programmes and Foundation degrees, the course will develop your design skills, research methods and critical analysis, while providing tuition in relevant digital software.

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Creative innovation in digital arts and design has explosively transformed our entertainments and information, and reshaped the way we work, consume and play - even mediating the way we relate to our friends. Visualising the next digital transformation in commerce and lifestyles is the focus of this programme.

The programme is structured to recruit directly from HND design programmes and Foundation degrees and thus only has a third and fourth year (SQF levels 9 and 10).

Digital Arts and Design provides you with the forecasting methods to analyse design problems and at the same time provoke fresh imagination about the ways in which flows of goods and ideas will be packaged and circulated in the digital world. Alongside these techniques the programme also provides you with the technical skills and creative inspiration to take an art director's approach to shaping the character of our virtual landscape.
  • Web Design
  • Digital Graphics
  • Moving Image Graphics
  • Visual Effects (post-production)
  • Computer Animation;
  • Exhibition
  • Interface Design
  • Digital Art Direction

What's it like?

The creative skills, technical knowledge and realistic expectations to make your mark in Arts and Design

Career prospects

We are one of the top universities in Scotland for graduate employability, with over 93% of our graduates in jobs or further study six months after graduating.

Graduates from this programme will work in wide range of creative and business environments.

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What's involved

Modular learning

Our courses are structured by modules which gives our students a flexible learning programme. Modules covered by this course:

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Requirements at a glance

Entry to the course

International students

Full-time study (per year)

The fees listed are stated per annum.

Part-time study (per year)

The fees listed are stated per annum.

Part-time study (per module)

Fees listed are per 20 credit module.

The number of modules studied is dependant on the exit that you wish to achieve, for example:

  • A Grad Cert is 60 Credits (3 modules)
  • A Cert HE/Grad Dip/ HND is 120 credits (6 modules)
  • A Dip HE credit is 240 credits (12 modules)
  • A Degree is 360 credits (18 modules)
  • An Honours Degree is 480 credits

Please note that some part-time courses give modular exemptions for previous study and vocational experience. Advice is available during application.

Fees Table

Fees displayed are correct at the time of publication but the University Court reserves the right to make changes in fees at any time, and without notice, before or after the student's admission to the University.

Tuition fees are reviewed annually and will rise each year during your programme of study, at least in line with inflation.

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