Compulsory modules
Media Design and Production (15 credits)
The aims of this module are to introduce students to the building blocks of modern multimedia applications, such as media production, media transportation and service models, quality of experience, human-application interaction.
Grand Challenges (15 credits)
The aim of this module is to give students an opportunity to explore grand challenges facing our global society and to propose imaginative solutions to specific challenges in one or more country.
Students will critically reflect on the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals and think about how Loughborough University's Creating Better Futures. Together Strategy might contribute to them.
Students will engage with ideas and approaches to possible solutions from their own programme and gain diverse insights from Loughborough University London's interdisciplinary ecosystem. This will involve solution-oriented thinking and a balance between criticality and possibility, leading to a deep understanding of grand challenges and imagining creative responses to them.
Optional modules
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Programming Fundamentals (15 credits)
The aim of this module is to provide the students with an understanding and programming skills for for solving practical problems in different applications.
Digital Media Audiences and Markets (15 credits)
The aim of this module is to introduce students to the major issues related to users' engagement with digital media. The module examines the evolution of the interactions of audiences with digital media; characteristics of digital media markets; implications of new digital media platforms on the experience of audiences and the associated organisations. Case studies will also be presented.
Entrepreneurship (15 credits)
The aims of this module are to:
- To introduce students to the field of entrepreneurship
- To assess the roles entrepreneurship plays in modern societies and economies and in an international context.
- To explore the different types of activity contained within the definition of entrepreneurship, and the main theoretical and analytical approaches used to understand the phenomenon.
- To examine entrepreneurial and innovative activity at different stages of a business, from start-up to more mature firms, and relate this to wider contexts.
Digital Heritage, Museums and Cultural Industries (15 credits)
This module will consolidate knowledge on the global cultural and heritage industries and contemporary developments, with a focus on the integration and impacts of digital media. The module has the following key aims:
- Introduce students to the cultural and heritage industries in the UK and across the world and explore their structure and operation alongside their sociocultural, economic and political impact;
- Provide a critical, theoretically-informed analysis of how these industries are shaped and constrained in contemporary times by social and cultural policy and by technological change;
- Introduce and consolidate knowledge on key concepts and theories in heritage and digital heritage studies, with applications in two areas: (1) GLAM institutions - Gallery, Libraries, Archives and Museums; and (2) community and indigenous heritage;
- Offer theoretical and methodological tools for examining the integration and effects of digital media in the production of cultural experiences, cultural participation and cultural learning;
- Develop understanding of and ability to use conceptual, analytical and methodological tools for engaging with key issues and debates in contemporary heritage and digital heritage studies, from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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Experience Design with Digital Technologies (15 credits)
The aims of this module are to:
- Introduce students to an immersive, human-centered, prototype-driven process for innovation that can be applied to a digital product and service design
- Enhance students capacity to think innovatively, create ideas rapidly, and actualize concept and ideas systematically in a competitive global digital market
- Equip students with essential methods and skills for creative resolution of problems through a series of group activities
Principles of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (15 credits)
The aims of this module are to:
- Introduce students to the foundational concepts of data processing and their use in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
- Enable students to gain background knowledge necessary to understand and develop different algorithms in AI and Data analytics.