Digital Marketing and Digital Creativity (with Foundation Year)

DIGITAL MARKETING

Digital Marketing is one of the most dynamic and fast-paced fields in business today. Our Digital Marketing degree combines theory with practical examples, ensuring that your learning is both academically rigorous and relevant to the modern digital marketplace.

Throughout the Digital Marketing degree, you will develop essential skills and knowledge. You will explore the digital marketing landscape, marketing research, and the discipline’s role in business success. Ethical considerations in digital marketing are also emphasised. The curriculum covers Social and Digital Marketing, as well as topics such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), content marketing, SEO, and social media optimisation, helping you understand the challenges and opportunities created by technological and cultural changes. Employability skills are a key focus, preparing you for meaningful work after graduation.

You will learn from research-active academics and benefit from masterclasses led by industry professionals. The course examines marketing across a wide range of organisations, from small businesses to global companies, providing a comprehensive foundation for a career in any sector or organisation size.

DIGITAL CREATIVITY

This course will educate students towards creating work that bridges the gap between traditional creative practices and their modern technologically facilitated counterparts from gaming, to graphic design to music and dance. It responds to the continuing appropriation of emerging digital technologies by artists with the aim of discovering new approaches for creative expression, often referred to under the umbrella term ‘Creative Convergence’. The course responds to the teaching and research interests of staff within the subjects of Music, Performance and Visual Arts, as well as colleagues in the areas related to Computer Science.

You will learn how to use a variety of technologies and realise assessed projects; these may include motion capture, haptic feedback, interaction design, data sonification & visualisation, animation & sound design, and coding/scripting in relevant languages strictly for creative output.

The practical seminars will act as laboratories to experiment with these technologies and enhance your skillsets, working towards a signature practice that primes them for the digital creative sector. The lectures provide a theoretical basis for you to critically position your work, further developed through student-led discussions in tutorials. The lecture content also informs the seminars, ensuring you are able to perceive the practical application of these ideas. In your first year of study, you will be introduced to the key practitioners and practices who demonstrate the ways digital technologies enrich the creative potential of traditional art forms.