Interactive Digital Media – (M.Sc.)

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The course runs full-time over a twelve-month period commencing late September and completing mid September of the following year. Formal teaching is divided into two twelve-week semesters. The dates for the two semesters in the 2010/11 academic year are:
Semester One Monday 27 September 2010 - Friday 17 December 2010 (12 weeks)
Semester Two Monday 17 January 2011 - Friday 8 April 2011 (12 weeks)

Each student selects and commences a research project, which must be submitted in the form of a dissertation of 12,000 words by mid March. Students will also complete a final project, which can be a collaborative development with a number of students from the class .

There is significant emphasis on theory rather than on media or software applications. A special laboratory is provided for the class where students can become familiar with software applications.

The courses offered include:

* Introduction to Programming;
* XML/HTML;
* Audio Technologies;
* Sensors;
* Interactive Authoring;
* Graphic Design;
* Image Processing;
* Cultural and Critical Studies;
* Research Methodologies;
* Client/Server Technologies and Networking;
* Interactive Narrative;
* Mobile Computing;
* Image Processing and 3-D Modelling;
* Game Development and Production;
* Legal Issues in Digital Publishing.;
* Digital Media Enterprises This course is especially suited to graduates with a primary degree in either Humanities or in Computer Science as both disciplines are important to the digital media sector.

Dissertation proposals are submitted in November and agreed by mid December with students then commencing their research project which must be submitted in the form of a dissertation of 12,000 words by the middle of March 2011 (see CS7044). After sitting final examinations in May, the students then go on to complete a final project which is a collaborative project (CS7043) with other class members.