MSc in Creative Industries (Computing)
Module Outlines
- All students in this programme will start with a compulsory module - The Creative Industries: Theory and Context - that is designed to provide a solid and critical understanding of the contemporary creative economy and its main practices and issues of debate. As an overview of the most significant theories and examples, this module will enable you not only to understand your own practices self-reflexively, but also to learn to think independently and come up with innovative solutions to practical challenges.
- The Computing pathway offers two different sets of compulsory computer science modules for students with and without significant computing experience respectively.
- The required credits to get the award are 60 for PGCert, 120 for PGDip, and 180 for MSc.
- Guided by the Programme Directors, students choose optional modules from the approved list as needed in order to get sufficient credits for the award.
- Please note that the optional modules available may vary from year to year, and choices are also subject to timetabling constraints.
- In addition to the taught modules, each student in the Computing pathway needs to undertake an individual project for the final dissertation, which may be either an implementation project to design and develop a software system in the target application domain of creative industries, or a research project to conduct a piece of social science investigation into a problem about the use of information technologies for creative industries.
- For more details of the programme content, please refer to the Programme booklet (in PDF).
| Compulsory Modules | Credits |
|
Creative Industries: Theory and Context (Part 1)
|
15 credits |
|
Creative Industries: Theory and Context (Part 2)
|
15 credits |
| Introduction to Software Development for students without significant computing experience |
30 credits |
| Introduction to Software Engineering: Tools and Environments for students with significant computing experience |
15 credits |
| Optional Modules | |
| Component Based Software Development | 15 credits |
| Computational Intelligence | 15 credits |
| Data and Knowledge Management | 15 credits |
| Data Warehousing and Data Mining | 15 credits |
| Digital Creativity and New Media Management | 15 credits |
| Information Retrieval and Organisation | 15 credits |
| Intelligent Technologies | 15 credits |
| Internet and Web Technologies | 15 credits |
| Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing | 15 credits |
| Object-Oriented Design and Programming | 15 credits |
| Search Engines and Web Navigation | 15 credits |
| Compulsory Dissertation | |
| Dissertation MSc Creative Industries (Computing) | 60 credits |
If you have a question about the MSc in Creative Industries (Computing) that is not covered here or on the Birkbeck FAQ, please contact Leila Darwish.
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Programme Administrator:
Leila Darwish
Admissions Tutor:
Oded Lachish
Programme Director:
George Roussos