Program Overview

Immersive Media Design MA

Overview

The Immersive Media Design MA is a postgraduate program that empowers creatives from diverse fields with the skills and knowledge needed to create captivating immersive experiences across various industries.

Course Structure

The course is divided into core and option modules, with a focus on hands-on, project-based learning.

Core Modules

• Designing for Extended Reality: This module introduces students to contemporary design practices, concepts, and issues in immersive media design.
• Virtual Worldbuilding: This module delves into the art and science of creating compelling virtual worlds, focusing on both practical and theoretical aspects of worldbuilding for immersive environments.
• Interactive and Immersive Storytelling: This module provides a theoretical and historical overview of digital and immersive non-fiction narratives.
• Immersive Design Futures: This module explores pioneering research and methodologies in extended reality design and development.
• Capstone Project (Immersive Media Design): The Capstone Project integrates skills and knowledge from the course with prospective career goals.

Option Modules

• Interactive and Immersive Media Production Skills: This module develops skills in cutting-edge interactive and immersive media production technologies.
• Hack Lab and Creative Technology: This module equips students with advanced knowledge of managing and assembling ideas using creative technologies and advanced programming.
• Start-up Incubator and Digital Entrepreneurship: This module develops ability to assemble creative projects to market with consumer-faced outcomes.

Entry Requirements

• A minimum of a lower second-class honors degree (2:2) in a related creative subject.
• Applicants may be interviewed, set an assignment, or asked to submit a portfolio.
• If the first language is not English, an IELTS 6.5 overall, with at least 5.5 in each element, is required.

Fees and Funding

• UK tuition fee: £1,211 (Price per 20-credit module)
• International tuition fee: £2,000 (Price per 20-credit module)
• Alumni discount available.
• Funding schemes available for international students.
• Scholarships available for eligible postgraduate students.

Teaching and Assessment

• Teaching methods focus on active student learning through lectures, seminars, workshops, problem-based and blended learning.
• Assessment types include practical and coursework, such as presentations, podcasts, blogs, essays, in-class tests, portfolios, and dissertation.

Supporting You

• Study support, including workshops, 1-2-1 support, and online resources.
• Personal tutors to support academic and personal potential.
• Student advice team for specialist advice on funding, benefits, and visas.
• Extra-curricular activities, including volunteering opportunities, sports and fitness activities, and student events.

Course Location

• Harrow Campus, located in north-west London, just 20 minutes from the city center by train.

Related Courses

• Digital Media: Storytelling and Production MA
• Interactive Media Practice MA
• Art and Emerging Technologies MA