BA (Hons) Digital Media Production at Anglia Ruskin University

Design and create innovative, engaging digital multimedia content, alongside developing your digital design and visual communication skills. There’s growing demand for digital content creators working across social media and other platforms with a specialist understanding of user experience, design, and emerging technologies like VR. Cambridge is the perfect place to gain these sought-after skills; It’s a tech hub known as ‘Silicon Fen’, with digital agencies and companies based here including Sookio, Onespacemedia, Google, Microsoft and Amazon.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences  |  Department: Cambridge School of Art  |  Duration: 3 years; 4 years with placement  |  Study mode: full-time (placement year available)  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

In Year 1, you’ll set up a blog to map your learning journey, giving you a useful resource and toolkit both during the course and beyond. We’ll also introduce you to the fundamentals of digital media, and help you develop project management skills. Year 1: Screen and Page, Introduction to User Experience Design, Critical and Contextual Studies 1: Think, Play, Learn, Sound and Vision, Digital Content Creation. Year 2: Motion Graphics, Prototype and Play, Critical and Contextual Studies 2: Creativity and Context in Dialogue, Immersive Storytelling, Ruskin Module; options include Reality Checkpoint – Socially Engaged Practice and the Public Realm, Reportage, Archive: Creative Futures, Exhibitions in Context. Year 3: Digital Media Specialised Practice, Digital Media Major Project; options include Critical and Contextual Studies 3: Creative Inquiry, Critical and Contextual Studies 3: Working in the Creative Industries.

Career pathways

It is hard to choose a highlight of my time on the course; however, I would probably narrow it down to being offered a work placement with One Brand Magic. This course will prepare you for roles including digital media design, web design, social media analysis, content writing, videography, motion graphic art, and interactive design.

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