BSc Computer Graphics, Imaging and Multimedia

Key details

BSC COMPUTER GRAPHICS, IMAGING AND MULTIMEDIA

Start Year

2021

Attendance

Full Time

Award

Degree of Bachelor of Science

UCAS course code

G450

Entry Requirements

BBB or ABC

Duration (years)

From day one you will be immersed in a cutting edge environment, soaking up the combined expertise of research-active staff from both the School of Computing Sciences and the School of Arts, Media and American Studies.

The academics from School of Computing Sciences will teach you your computing subjects, while film, television and media subjects will be taught by the Arts, Media and American Studies team.

You’ll kick off your studies by getting hands-on experience in the essentials of computing, including computer systems, computer programming, software engineering and mathematics.

You’ll then get the opportunity to study increasingly more specialist subjects such as computer graphics, video and audio processing, movie making, digital media production, artificial intelligence and more.

It’s all brought to life in our specialist graphics lab with state of the art computers and high-end graphics cards, as well as in our motion capture laboratory. You will also be able to use our 3D printer, 3D stereoscopic monitors, humanoid robots, drones, haptic feedback devices and mainstream Virtual Reality (VR) hardware.

Thanks to our strong ties with media and entertainment companies, we are able to shape our course content and coursework projects based on current trends and real-world problems.

In your final year, your independent research project gives you the chance to study a subject you’re truly passionate about. You could look at anything from developing VR applications (such as 3D flight and vehicle simulators) and games with motion captured characters to mixed reality (MR) movie creation, augmented reality (AR) games or state of the art graphics projects with light effects (using shaders).

About

If you’re into film or sound production, graphics, arts, or media, and you aspire to push the boundaries of these fields by developing state of the art software solutions, then this course is tailor made for you.

You will gain a solid foundation in computer programming, computer graphics and software engineering. Your computing studies are then complemented by modules in movie, sound and audio production, taught at the School of Arts, Media and American Studies.

You can then put it all together in your final year project by, for example, creating a movie with computer-generated special effects.

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Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the courses listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the regular review of course programmes. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes, there will normally be prior consultation of students and others. Changes may for example consist of variations to the content and method of delivery of programmes, courses and other services, to discontinue programmes, courses and other services and to merge or combine programmes or courses. The University will endeavour to keep such changes to a minimum, and will inform students.

Assessment for Year 1

We will assess most computing modules through coursework and exams, although some are coursework only (eg Software Engineering has a group-based project). On some arts and media modules we use essays too.

Your final year project will be assessed through a presentation, project report and portfolio.

We’ll always give prompt feedback after lab sessions and final marking to help you develop.

Structure

In each year you will typically take six 20-credit modules, adding up to 360 credits over the three years of your course.

Year 1

In your first year you’ll develop a solid theoretical and practical foundation in computer programming. You’ll learn the fundamentals of computer systems and principles, databases, mathematics and programming (including web-based programming). Your coursework projects will focus on real world applications, sharpening your programming and problem solving skills – must-haves for the IT, media and entertainment industries.

Teaching and Learning

Teaching

You’ll have between 15-20 hours a week contact time with teachers. In the first year your compulsory modules will have the largest number of students (around 150), but this will reduce as you progress and modules become more specialist.

Your computing modules will be a mix of lectures and lab sessions led by lecturing staff. Postgraduate associate tutors will also be on hand in labs to facilitate their specific subject. Lab sessions will initially involve working on small weekly programming assignments, then – as your experience and confidence grows – you’ll take on larger, real-life projects lasting a whole semester. For your first-year mathematics modules you’ll attend weekly small group exercise seminars to build on your lecture material.

Your Arts, Media and American Studies modules will follow a similar format although some modules also have hands-on filming projects.

Your final year project runs across the entire year, and you’ll meet with your project supervisor on a weekly basis to discuss your progress. Plus you’ll have all our lab facilities and specialist equipment at your fingertips.

Independent study

We expect you to spend at least 15-20 hours a week on independent study – around the same as your teaching contact time.

You’ll have the chance to enrich your learning experience on a summer internship. Our School, UEA’s Careers Centre and UEA as a whole work in collaboration with local and nationwide businesses to help you find the perfect placement.

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Assessment for Year 2

Your final year project will be assessed through a presentation, project report and portfolio.

We’ll always give prompt feedback after lab sessions and final marking to help you develop

Structure

Year 2

In your second year you’ll get to choose between a variety of optional modules from the School of Arts, Media and American Studies, including film, television and media, and computing modules from the School of Computing Sciences. Your compulsory modules will include computer graphics, further programming and algorithms.

Teaching and Learning

Teaching

Your Arts, Media and American Studies modules will follow a similar format although some modules also have hands-on filming projects.

Independent study

We expect you to spend at least 15-20 hours a week on independent study – around the same as your teaching contact time.

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Assessment for Year 3

Your final year project will be assessed through a presentation, project report and portfolio.

We’ll always give prompt feedback after lab sessions and final marking to help you develop.

Structure

Year 3

Your only compulsory third-year module will be your final year project – for which you can suggest your own topic or choose from our list. This module is worth 40 credits, so it’s equivalent to two standard modules.

Alongside your project, you’ll choose from a range of optional advanced modules from both the School of Computing Sciences and the School of Arts, Media and American Studies.

Teaching and Learning

Teaching

Your Arts, Media and American Studies modules will follow a similar format although some modules also have hands-on filming projects.

Independent study

We expect you to spend at least 15-20 hours a week on independent study – around the same as your teaching contact time.

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Assessment for Year 1

Your final year project will be assessed through a presentation, project report and portfolio.

We’ll always give prompt feedback after lab sessions and final marking to help you develop.

Compulsory Modules

PROGRAMMING 1

Code CMP-4008Y

Credits 20

In taking this module you will gain a solid grounding in the essential features of object-oriented programming, using a modern programming language such as Java. The module is designed such that you are not expected to have previously studied programming, although it is recognised that many students taking the module will have done so in some measure.

WEB-BASED PROGRAMMING

Code CMP-4011A

Credits 20

In this module you will be introduced to some of the tools used for web development. You will then build a substantial dynamic web site using the current HTML family of standards. An understanding of the underlying mechanisms of the technologies used in the Internet and World Wide Web is essential for any computing science student. Therefore, in the latter part of the module you will learn about these technologies and undertake a practical approach to exploring them. You will learn about issues of cyber security.

COMPUTING PRINCIPLES

Code CMP-4002B

Credits 20

The module introduces formulations and techniques essential for any degree in computing science.

DATABASE SYSTEMS

Code CMP-4010B

Credits 20

This module is based on the relational model and will introduce you to important aspects of databases, database manipulation and database management systems. You will explore the tools and methods for database design and manipulation as well as the programming of database applications. You will use a modern relational database management system to gain practical experience. You will also develop programming experience using SQL, and using a high level programming language to write applications that access the database.

SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT

Code CMP-4013A

Credits 20

The complexity of Computer Based Systems, appropriate development approaches, and their inherent activities will be discussed using case studies and guest speakers where appropriate. Emphasis will be placed on the processes involved with systems requirements, creative designs, and careful development, in a professional manner, ensuring that issues such as project management, safety, security and data protection are taken into account. The module will include a number of modelling techniques to support the systems development process. These will be put into practise during the group exercise that will run throughout the semester. There are also opportunities for students to hone their transferable skills through literature searching, report writing, seminar discussions and presentations.

Optional A Modules

(20 credits)

MATHEMATICS FOR COMPUTING A

Code CMP-4004Y

Credits 20

The module is designed to provide students who have not studied A level Mathematics with sufficient understanding of basic algebra to give them confidence to embark on the study of computing fundamentals. Various topics in discrete and continuous mathematics which are fundamental to Computer Science will be introduced to you.

MATHEMATICS FOR COMPUTING B

Code CMP-4005Y

Credits 20

This module is designed for you if you have an A level (or equivalent) in Mathematics. It will provide you with an introduction to the mathematics of counting and arrangements, a further development of the theory and practice of calculus, an introduction to linear algebra and its computing applications and a further development of the principles and computing applications of probability theory. In addition, 3D Vectors are introduced and complex numbers are studied.

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Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.

Assessment for Year 2

Your final year project will be assessed through a presentation, project report and portfolio.

We’ll always give prompt feedback after lab sessions and final marking to help you develop

Compulsory Modules

GRAPHICS 1

Code CMP-5010B

Credits 20

This module will provide you with an introduction to the fundamentals of computer graphics. You will gain a strong foundation in computer graphics, focusing on 2D graphics, algorithms and interaction. You need to have a good background in programming to take this module. OpenGL is used as the graphics API with examples provided in the lectures and supported in the laboratory classes.

DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS

Code CMP-5014B

Credits 20

The purpose of this module is to give the student a solid grounding in the design, analysis and implementation of algorithms and in the efficient implementation of a wide range of important data structures.

PROGRAMMING 2

Code CMP-5015A

Credits 20

This is a compulsory module for all computing students and is a continuation of 1M0Y/1X04. It contains greater breadth and depth and provides students with the range of skills needed for many of their subsequent modules. We recap Java and deepen your understanding of the language by teaching topics such as nested classes, generics, swing and threaded programming. We will also broaden your programming knowledge by giving you a basic grounding in Matlab and C++.

Optional A Modules

(40 credits)

ANALYSING FILM

Code AMAM4009A

Credits 20

The analysis of film form underpins film studies as a discipline, informing aesthetic, theoretical and historical modes of inquiry. You will be introduced to the analysis of film form and film style. It encompasses approaches to the fundamental formal elements of mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing and sound. You will also build on these elements of film form to address systems of and approaches to film style including narrative and narration, genre, realism, continuity and classicism, modernism and experimentation. You will also learn how questions of film style are integral to the analysis of representation, for example in relation to modernity, gender and race.

ANALYSING TELEVISION

Code AMAM4010A

Credits 20

You will explore the many ways television has been examined, explored, understood, and used. You will focus particularly on the specifics of the medium; that is, how television is different from (and, in some ways, similar to) other media such as film, radio, and the internet. Each week will focus on a particular idea which is seen as central to the examination of television. The medium will be explored as an industry, as a range of texts, and as a social activity.

ANIMATION

Code AMAM5024A

Credits 20

Animation has long been one of the most popular and least scrutinised areas of popular media culture. This module seeks to introduce you to animation as a mode of production through examinations of different aesthetics and types of animation from stop motion through to cel and CGI-based examples. It then goes on to discuss some of the debates around animation in relation to case study texts, from animation's audiences to its economics. A range of approaches and methods will therefore be adopted within the module, including methods like political economics, cultural industries, star studies and animation studies itself. The module is taught by seminar and screening and is not a practice module.

FILM THEORY

Code AMAM5030A

Credits 20

This module explores aspects of film theory as it has developed over the last hundred years or so. It encompasses topics including responses to cinema by filmmaker theorists such as Sergei Eisenstein and influential formulations of and debates about realism and film aesthetics associated with writers and critics such as André Bazin, Siegfried Kracauer, Rudolf Arnheim and Bela Bálázs. You’ll study the impact of structuralism, theories of genre, narrative and models of film language; feminist film theory and its emphasis on psychoanalysis; theories of race and representation; cognitive theory; emerging eco-critical approaches; post-structuralist and post-modern film theory. You’ll be taught by lecture, screening and seminar. You’ll work with primary texts - both films and theoretical writings - and have the opportunity to explore in their written work the ways in which film theories can be applied to film texts.

FILM AND VIDEO PRODUCTION

Code AMAP5125B

Credits 20

Film is frequently described as a ‘director’s medium’, while simultaneously defined as a ‘collaborative effort’. How is that possible? How do the director, cinematographer, designer and editor work together to create the suspense, romance, or comedy that we expect from our favourite films? What does the film director actually do? What are the choices that see one director lauded as an ‘auteur’ and another derided as a ‘hack’? Why does a cinematographer choose the specific lighting, framing and camera style for a scene? How does the director work with a script and coax performances out of the actors? What prompts the editor to use one angle, rather than another? This module attempts to answer these questions, as it introduces you to the practical application of film and television grammar and explores the fundamental questions of cinematic and televisual storytelling. A series of filmmaking exercises give you the chance to experiment with elements of camera and blocking, the use of sound, and multiple editing options. Other exercises look at script as a dramatic text and introduce basic techniques of working with actors. The final project asks you to work with professional script material to produce a video scene study. The module encourages students to understand the choices and decision-making processes involved in filmmaking, and the pros and cons involved in any creative decision.

VIDEOGAMES: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND RECEPTION

Code HUM-5008B

Credits 20

This module offers students the opportunity to develop a comprehensive understanding of the cultural, political, and economic contexts of the videogames industry, and the techniques and principles used in game design. The module will give an overview of the key academic debates from video game history from production to reception, considering the current state of the industry, issues of representation in games, and study of games culture within a broader context. The module will provide students with the opportunity to play and critique a variety of games hardware and software. In addition, the module provides an understanding of hardware platforms and software tools used in the creation of videogames, making use of UEA's Media Suite to offer a practice-based component to aid in the understanding of the principles behind games development. Students will be able to learn entry level games design practices. No previous experience of coding or games development is required to undertake the module, just an interest in the subject.

Optional B Modules

(20 credits)

ARCHITECTURES AND OPERATING SYSTEMS

Code CMP-5013A

Credits 20

Study the organisation of system software and the underlying hardware architecture in modern computer systems. The role of concurrent operation of hardware and software components is emphasised throughout this module. Central concepts are reinforced by practical work in the laboratory. The architectures portion of the module focuses on the components of a processor, including the registers and data path, and you will explore concepts such as instruction fetch cycles, instruction decoding and memory addressing modes. The operating systems component focuses on how the system software manages the competing demands for the system hardware, including memory management and disc and processing scheduling.

ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL ELECTRONICS

Code CMP-5027A

Credits 20

A practical introduction to electronics, this module is structured to consider analogue electronics and digital electronics in turn. Topics you’ll cover include passive and active components, including op-amps, transistors, logic gates, flip-flops and registers. Circuits you’ll study include amplifiers, oscillators, modulators, combinational and sequential logic and state machines. You’ll spend much of your time doing practical work – underpinned by lectures – where you will build prototypes circuits, as well as designing and building Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs).

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Code CMP-5036A

Credits 20

In this module you will learn about the development of the technologies which are the basis of search on the Web. Search engine development has been driven by large increases in online documents and the need to provide better results. You will learn about a range of techniques for improving search results and how to evaluate their impact.

NETWORKS

Code CMP-5037B

Credits 20

Explore how networks are designed and implemented to provide reliable data transmission. You will take a layered approach to the study of networks, with emphasis on the functionality of the OSI 7 layer reference model and the TCP/IP model. You will examine the functionality provided by each layer and how this contributes to overall reliable data transmission that the network provides, with a focus on the practical issues associated with networking such as real-time delivery of multimedia information (e.g. VoIP) and network security. Labs and coursework are highly practical and underpin the theory learnt in lectures.

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Assessment for Year 3

Your final year project will be assessed through a presentation, project report and portfolio.

We’ll always give prompt feedback after lab sessions and final marking to help you develop.

Compulsory Modules

COMPUTING PROJECT

Code CMP-6013Y

Credits 40

This module will give you experience of independent project work through the development of research and application involving a significant amount of computing science knowledge and skills, for example, in design/implementation of algorithms, software, or hardware systems. It will also provide, via the lecture programme, a primer on the law, ethical and professional behaviour, project management, reporting and other aspects of being a computer scientist. You will be allocated a supervisor and will be expected to work closely together on a mutually agreed project.

Optional A Modules

(20 credits)

GRAPHICS 2

Code CMP-6006A

Credits 20

Explore the fundamentals of 3D geometric transformations and viewing using OpenGL and learn the theory and implementation of fundamental visibility determination algorithms and techniques for lighting and shading. You’ll study 3D curves and fundamental geometric data structures, as well as considering the issues involved with modern high performance graphics processors.

AUDIOVISUAL PROCESSING

Code CMP-6026A

Credits 20

This module explores how computers process audio and video signals. In the audio component, the focus is on understanding how humans produce speech and how this can be processed by computer for speech recognition and enhancement. Similarly, the visual component considers the human eye and camera, and how video is processed by computer. The theoretical material covered in lectures is reinforced with practical laboratory sessions. The module is coursework only and requires you to build a speech recogniser capable of recognising the names of students studying the module using both audio and visual speech information.

COMPUTER VISION

Code CMP-6035B

Credits 20

Computer Vision is about “teaching machines how to see”. It includes methods for acquiring, analysing and understanding images. The unit comprises lectures and laboratories. Practical exercises and projects, undertaken in the laboratory support the underpinning theory and enable students to implement contemporary computer vision algorithms.

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION

Code CMP-6039A

Credits 20

Human Computer Interaction (or UX) covers a very wide range of devices, including conventional computers, mobile devices and “hidden” computing devices. In this module you will learn about interactions from a variety of perspectives, such as cognitive psychology, ethnographic methods, security issues, UI failures, the principles of good user experience, heuristic and experimental evaluation approaches and the needs of a range of different audiences.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Code CMP-6040A

Credits 20

This module will introduce you to core techniques in Artificial Intelligence. Topics covered may include state space representation and search algorithms, knowledge representation, expert systems, Bayesian networks, Markov Models, Neural networks, Deep learning, and an Introduction to Robotics and Drone.

Optional B Modules

(60 credits)

CREATIVE WORK IN THE MEDIA INDUSTRIES

Code AMAM6086B

Credits 30

What is it like working in the media industries? What are the key opportunities and challenges which face aspiring and established media professionals? In engaging with such questions, this module offers you the opportunity to gain an understanding of the industries in which you may well wish to work. Throughout the module you will engage with academic research and other writing, both historical and contemporary in nature, to provide you with an understanding of the potential to find pleasure, fulfilment (and a steady income), as well as pressure, frustration and precariousness in media work. As well as developing skills in communicating ideas, principles and theories, you will conduct your own research into the nature and conditions of media work. To help you understand media work, we reflect on changes in the nature of work itself in modern societies, considering historical and recent developments in working cultures and questions of work-life balance. Following this, you will gain insights into work in the media and creative industries through an engagement with academic research, policy developments and the accounts of media workers themselves (across sectors such as film, television, music, magazines, advertising and digital media). We also look at questions about the extent to which it is feasible to do ‘good work’ and produce challenging, innovative, ground breaking, thoughtful or just genuinely entertaining media products in a seemingly ever competitive and commercial media landscape. Having developed a grasp of some of the key dynamics at play in creative labouring, you’ll put this knowledge into practice by carrying out and reflecting upon your own research into the challenges and opportunities bound up with media work. The module will not only provide you with a range of valuable insights into the realities of media work but will also help you develop skills in conducting research, organising and communicating your ideas and weighing your own arguments against those of others.

JAPANESE FILM: NATIONAL CINEMA AND BEYOND

Code AMAM6087A

Credits 30

This module aims to introduce you to approaches to cinema as it relates to national, transnational and global discourses. Japanese cinema forms the focus of the module, largely because it has been at the forefront of non-Anglo/American cinematic discourses since the earliest periods of “world” cinema history. Investigating Japanese cinema case study films will allow you to pose a variety of important questions in relation to the history, techniques and culture of cinema as it is consumed around the world. The module is divided into three sections, roughly historically. In the first section you will examine the golden age of Japanese cinema through the works of filmmakers such as Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu. You will explore the history of Japan’s national film industry, its canonisation, the beginnings of international Japanese cinema, and some of the aesthetic innovations of Japan’s cinematic “Golden Age”. The second section examines Japanese genre cinema. By focusing on some of Japan’s famous filmmakers and franchises, including Godzilla, you will explore Japanese film through an inter- or transnational lens. You will also consider other important questions; for example, why is it that some film genres travel and others do not? The final part of the module will consider contemporary Japanese cinema through transnational and global frameworks. You will look at the current rise in international popularity of Japanese filmmaking, assessing the importance of cycles of filmmaking, audiences and distribution to the notoriety of Japanese cinema on a global level. These discussions are intended to reframe discussions on current and past Japanese filmmaking, challenging existing theorisations of Japanese cinema by examining it through alternative methodological frameworks. There is no expectation that you should be able to speak Japanese, nor are you expected to be an expert in Japanese cultural studies. While the module does focus on the history and culture of Japan and Japanese filmmaking as specific to this national cinema, it is intended to provide you with the tools to study other national and global cinemas too. By taking in a range of frameworks from the national to the global, the module is intended to provide you with a set of theoretical concepts relevant to every cinema, everywhere and throughout film history.

FILM AND VIDEO PRODUCTION

Code AMAP5125B

Credits 20

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Code CMP-5012B

Credits 20

Software Engineering is one of the most essential skills for work in the software development industry. You will gain an understanding of the issues involved in designing and creating software systems from an industry perspective. You will be taught state of the art phased software development methodologies focusing on the activities of initial class model design to actual operational software systems. These activities are complemented with an introduction into software project management and development facilitation.

ARCHITECTURES AND OPERATING SYSTEMS

Code CMP-5013A

Credits 20

ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL ELECTRONICS

Code CMP-5027A

Credits 20

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Code CMP-5036A

Credits 20

NETWORKS

Code CMP-5037B

Credits 20

GRAPHICS 2

Code CMP-6006A

Credits 20

DIRECTED STUDY 1

Code CMP-6021A

Credits 10

This Autumn Semester module is a 10 credit module to compensate for 30 credit AMA modules as part of your course. It offers 10 credits as part of the coursework of any 20 credit Autumn Semester CMP module available in Options A and B range of the third year of the Computing Science, Imaging and Multimedia course or Year in Industry variant.

DIRECTED STUDY 2

Code CMP-6022B

Credits 10

This Spring Semester module is a 10 credit module to compensate for 30 credit AMA modules as part of the above courses. It offers 10 credits as part of the coursework of any 20 credit Spring Semester CMP module available in Options A and B range of the third year of the Computing Science, Imaging and Multimedia course or Year in Industry variant.

AUDIOVISUAL PROCESSING

Code CMP-6026A

Credits 20

COMPUTER VISION

Code CMP-6035B

Credits 20

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION

Code CMP-6039A

Credits 20

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Code CMP-6040A

Credits 20

ADVANCED PROGRAMMING

Code CMP-6048A

Credits 20

Covers advanced features of established OO languages including C++ and Java, introduces F# (functional language) and C# (hybrid language) including .NET/CLR, and C++11,14. On the other side of the language spectrum, procedural and lower level languages such as C, IL, Bytecode and x86 assembly language are studied. Furthermore, code optimisation and high-performance computing (cluster, GPU) are addressed as well. Finally, practical methods as part of software engineering are reiterated including agile programming, design patterns and software testing.

VIDEOGAMES: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND RECEPTION

Code HUM-5008B

Credits 20

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Entry Requirements

A Levels

BBB or ABC including one A level in Mathematics, Computing Science, Chemistry, Physics, Electronics or Economics or BBC including one A level in Mathematics, Computing Science, Chemistry, Physics, Electronics or Economics with an A in the Extended Project

T Levels

BTEC

DDM acceptable in an IT or Science-based subject. Excludes BTEC Public Services, BTEC Uniformed Services and BTEC Business Administration

Scottish highers

AABBB including one from Mathematics, Computing Science, Physics, Electronics, Economics.

Scottish highers advanced

CCC including one from Mathematics, Computing Science, Physics, Electronics, Economics.

Irish leaving certificate

Two subjects at H2 and four subjects at H3, including either Mathematics, Computing Science, Chemistry, Physics, Electronics or Economics

Access course

Pass the Access to HE Diploma with Merit in 45 credits at Level 3 including 12 Level 3 credits in either Mathematics, Computing Science, Physics, Electronics or Economics.

European Baccalaureate

70% overall, including 70% in one subject in either Mathematics, Computing Science, Physics, Electronics, Economics

International Baccalaureate

31 points with HL 5 in one subject from Mathematics, Computing Science, Physics, Economics.

GCSE offer

You are required to have English Language at a minimum of Grade C/4 and Mathematics at Grade B/5 at GCSE.

Additional entry requirements

Science A-levels must include a pass in the practical element.

A-Level General Studies and Critical Thinking are not accepted.

If you do not meet the academic requirements for direct entry, you may be interested in one of our Foundation Year programmes.

UEA recognises that some students take a mixture of International Baccalaureate IB or International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme IBCP study rather than the full diploma, taking Higher levels in addition to A levels and/or BTEC qualifications. At UEA we do consider a combination of qualifications for entry, provided a minimum of three qualifications are taken at a higher Level. In addition some degree programmes require specific subjects at a higher level.

Students for whom english is a foreign language

We welcome applications from students from all academic backgrounds. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including speaking, listening, reading and writing) at the following level:

IELTS: 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in any component)

We also accept a number of other English language tests. Please click here to see our full list.

If you do not meet the academic and/or English language requirements for this course, our partner INTO UEA offers guaranteed progression on to this undergraduate degree upon successful completion of a foundation programme. Depending on your interests and your qualifications you can take a variety of routes to this degree:

International Foundation in Mathematics and Actuarial Sciences
International Foundation in Physical Sciences and Engineering

INTO UEA also offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study:

Pre-sessional English at INTO UEA
English for University Study at INTO UEA

Interviews

The majority of candidates will not be called for an interview and a decision will be made via UCAS Track.

However, for some students an interview will be requested. You may be called for an interview to help the School of Study, and you, understand if the course is the right choice for you. The interview will cover topics such as your current studies, reasons for choosing the course and your personal interests and extra-curricular activities.

Where an interview is required the Admissions Service will contact you directly to arrange a convenient time.

Gap year

We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year. We believe that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry and to contact admissions@uea.ac.uk directly to discuss this further.

Intakes

This course is open to UK, EU and International applicants. The annual intake for this course is in September each year.

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BSc COMPUTER GRAPHICS, IMAGING AND MULTIMEDIA