BSc Creative Computing

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Level:4-Year Bachelor's Degree

Duration:

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Admission Requirements

Entry Requirement

The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows:

For Year 1 entry:

· Grades BCC or above at A-level

· Merit Merit Merit (MMM) at BTEC Extended Diploma (preferred subjects include Computer Science and ICT, or Design and Technology, or Art and Design)

· Access to Higher Education Diploma with 104 UCAS tariff points (preferred subjects include Computer Science and ICT, or Design and Technology, or Art and Design)

· Pass at Foundation Diploma in Art & Design (Level 3 or 4) and 1 A Level at Grade C or above

· Equivalent EU/International qualifications, such as International Baccalaureate Diploma.

For Year 0 entry:

· Grades CC or above at A-level

· Merit Pass Pass (MPP) at BTEC Extended Diploma (preferred subjects include Computer Science and ICT, or Design and Technology, or Art and Design)

· Access to Higher Education Diploma with 64 UCAS tariff points (preferred subjects include Computer Science and ICT, or Design and Technology, or Art and Design)

· Equivalent EU/International qualifications, such as International Baccalaureate Diploma.

And three GCSE passes at grade 4 or above (grade A*-C).

Additional Requirements

If students do not have a Science or Mathematics-based A-level, they should normally have at least Grade B/Grade 6 at GCSE Mathematics.

Entry to this course will also be determined by assessment of your personal statement and mini portfolio.

English Requirement

If English is not your first language, IELTS 6.0 (or equivalent) is required, with a minimum of 5.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking. For more details, please check our main English Language requirements webpage.

Other Requirement

APEL - Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning

Exceptionally applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:

• Related academic or work experience

• The quality of the personal statement

• A strong academic or other professional reference

• OR a combination of these factors

Each application will be considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.

Course Information

The BSc Creative Computing is an exciting mix of computing and creative practice set in the context of a world-renowned creative university. You will lean to code, build apps, craft digital experiences, explore machine intelligence and more. You will acquire a contemporary set of applied computing skills covering the dominant coding languages and workflows that support innovation in the digital technology sector and creative practice. Building on these skills, and through creative practice, you will also develop your ability to innovate. This will enable you to understand and explore the cultural agency of computational technology. Engagement with creative practice also builds your ability to self-reflect and think critically about your role in shaping the world. This integration of computational and creative practice will ensure you have the opportunity to build a successful career in creative practice, the creative industries or within the digital technology sector more broadly.

Course Structure (BSc + Year Zero): As per the UAL Institutes strategy, the ICC “will offer opportunities to develop a new range of products in the HE market that address a different pipeline of students.” And will develop UAL’s “capacity to support a broader range of HE qualifications” which is “considered highly desirable in the context of current schools’ policy and emerging tertiary funding priorities.” And as such the development offers “subject differentiation and addressing the STE(A)M agenda”. To do this robustly it is important that the course supports flexible routes to entry so as to allow progression to UAL in this subject area. The UK schools landscape tends to both specialise students within a STEM or Arts track relatively early and we need to ensure that the course remains open to both given the dual nature of the provision. This means a year zero option that allows students with creative qualifications but not sufficient maths/computing a way to access the course but also allows students with not enough creative experience a similar level of access to UAL. The year zero option also reflects that arts provision is shrinking within schools (with computing growing) and that the UAL foundation does not include specific preparation for this type of provision.

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