Module descriptions

School of Digital, Technologies and Arts / undergraduate

5 published undergraduate courses use the following 48 modules:

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Code Title Level Credits School Module description
DRAM60303 ACTING FOR DIGITAL MEDIA 6 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
DRAM60216 APPLIED THEATRE PRACTICE 6 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
ELEC51000 AUTOMATION AND CONTROL ENGINEERING 5 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
DRAM60215 CONTEMPORARY BRITISH DRAMA 6 30 School of Digital, Technologies and Arts
DRAM60219 CREATIVE COMPANY PRACTICE: INDEPENDENT THEATRE COMPANY 6 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MECH31020 DESIGN AND COMMUNICATION 3 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MECH51020 DESIGN ENGINEERING 5 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
DRAM60179 DRAMA AND THEATRE ARTS DISSERTATION 6 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
DRAM60170 DRAMA AND THEATRE ARTS RESEARCH PRESENTATION 6 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
DRAM60171 DRAMA AND THEATRE ARTS RESEARCH PROJECT 6 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
ELEC61020 ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION AND SUPPLY INDUSTRY 6 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
ELEC61030 ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 6 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
ELEC51030 ELECTRICAL ROTATING MACHINES 5 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
ENGG61000 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATION IN ENGINEERING 6 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MECH31010 ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS 3 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
ELEC31000 ENGINEERING SCIENCE 3 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
DRAM60304 FINAL FILM PROJECT 6 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
DRAM60142 FORUM THEATRE 6 15 School of Digital, Technologies and Arts
MATH31000 FOUNDATION QUANTITATIVE METHODS 3 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
ELEC41000 FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 4 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business This module will enable you to gain a solid foundation in electrical circuit principles and their application in DC and AC circuit analysis. It will also give you an overview of analogue circuit characterisation analysis and design and will introduce you to the principles of digital devices, design, and applications of combinational and sequential logic circuits.The Indicative Content is as follows:DC Circuit analysis: Fundamental units, Derived SI units, Systems of units, standards of measurements, classification of standards. Defining electric current, charge carriers, electrical potential, electrical resistance, Power supplies, Digital multimeter, Ohm’s law, Power and Energy, Wattmeter. Series circuits, Kirchhoff’s voltage law, Introduction to circuit design simulation software package, Parallel circuit, Kirchhoff’s current law, Source conversion, Series and parallel network, Thevenin’s Theorem, Norton’s theorem, Maximum power transfer Theorem. AC circuit analysis: Sinusoidal Alternating waveform, Relationship between frequency and time, General format for sinusoidal voltage or current, Phase relation, Average value, Effective value, Response of R, L and C to sinusoidal voltage or current, power factor, Complex numbers, rectangular form, Polar form, Conversion between forms, Phasors, Series and parallel ac circuits. Electric field, Capacitance, charging and discharging phase, Instantaneous value, Capacitors in series and parallel, energy stored by a capacitor, Magnetic Fields, Flux density, Ohm’s law for magnetic circuits, Magnetizing force, Inductors, Lenz’s law, Self-inductance, induced voltage, R-L transients, Storage cycle, Decay phase, Instantaneous values, R-L-C with dc inputs, Energy stored by a conductor.Analogue electronics: Semiconductors, P-N Junction diode, Forward and reverse bias characteristics. Diode applications, half wave rectifier, full wave rectifier, Zener diode, voltage regulator, power supply. Bipolar junction transistor, Transistor currents, Current gain, Transistor input and output characteristics, Transistor load line, Transistor biasing, Small signal amplifier, Transistor modelling, Impact of coupling and bypass capacitors, Transistor parameters, Voltage gain, Current gain, Input and out output resistance, Transistor frequency response, Field effect transistor, Output characteristics, Transfer characteristics, FET parameters, Shockley equation, Plotting transfer characteristics, FET biasing circuits.Digital electronics: Introduction to number system, Logic gates and digital design; Boolean algebra, Sequential and combinational circuits, Karnaugh maps.
MECH41000 FUNDAMENTALS OF MECHANICS & THERMO-FLUID 4 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MEDP30003 IDEAS GENERATION AND PROBLEM SOLVING FOR MEDIA 3 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business Developing new and innovative ideas is essential for any successful media practitioner. This module will therefore use variety of creative methods to help develop your ideas generation, problem solving and critical thinking. Through individual and group exercises, you will develop experimental and lateral media techniques and challenged preconceived ideas and ways of working. The module is practice-focused, encouraging you to apply your ideas by using a range of pre-production, production and post-production equipment, tools and software. As a result, you will apply your newly acquired knowledge to complete a short brief.
ENGG61010 INDIVIDUAL ENGINEERING PROJECT 6 45 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MATH51000 INTERMEDIATE ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS 5 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MECH41020 INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING DESIGN AND PRACTICE 4 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MATH41000 INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS (NON A-LEVEL) 4 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
ENGG51000 LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT 5 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MEDP30004 MAJOR PROJECT (MEDIA) 3 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business This module encourages you to take personal responsibility for a major brief, building on the experience of the whole learning programme. This will enable you to apply and consolidate the knowledge, skills and experience you have gained, in the production of a significant body of work to develop themes, storytelling and/or narrative. Alongside personal tutorials, you will be encouraged to work independently through negotiation with your tutor to research and generate your ideas before applying ways of working to your own media practice. As a result, this module provides an opportunity for significant personal creative development.
MECH60465 MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS 6 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MECH51010 MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS AND QUALITY 5 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MECH51000 MECHANICAL STRUCTURES 5 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
FTVR60448 MEDIA EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH PROJECT 6 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business This module is designed to enable you to reflect on your progress in developing employability skills from Level 4 and 5. It will allow you to articulate your current film, television and radio interests and achievements, and to research and outline a possible career path in the media or media related occupations after graduation. It will involve you investigating employers and contacting industry professionals to identify the skills needed to enter a particular professional area of employment. You will also undertake a case study analysis and investigate one possible strand of media/media-related employment for the future. In addition to this you will be able to document and articulate your own research by presenting a case study to support a possible career path(s) as a start to your own career.
FTVR60446 MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT: PERFORMANCE AND DRAMA 6 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business What is entertainment? How important is performance and drama within film, television and radio? This module looks at how acting and presentation performances are negotiated by audiences and the viewing pleasures associated with this interaction. This focus enables you to explore and critically examine modes of entertainment performance within film, television and radio and how the different styles of performance have evolved within these media. This will include how different genres of films and programming have influenced certain styles of performances and how, importantly, audiences have interacted with these. The module also attempts to address how certain actors and performers have negotiated their style through the use of specific vocal and physical techniques, and how certain levels of stardom and personality are achieved within film and broadcasting. The module also looks at the concepts of entertainment through such areas as drama (plays, soaps, serials and series) and light entertainment (variety, comedy) and the range of different target audiences.
FTVR60507 MEDIA PERFORMANCE DISSERTATION 6 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
DRAM60195 MUSICAL THEATRE 6 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
DRAM60210 ONE VOICE: THEATRE MONOLOGUES 6 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MECH31000 PRINCIPLES OF MATERIALS 3 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MEDP30001 PRODUCTION SKILLS FOR MEDIA 3 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business This module introduces you to a wide range of approaches used across the media industry and the production skills that are essential to success in the area. It explores a breadth of production skills relevant to different media areas alongside how and why they are used, including fundamentals of video camera technology, editing and post-production, and conventions and narrative. Through workshops you will apply aesthetic and technical techniques to undertake various exercises. You will produce a portfolio demonstrating the methods covered and present a support file containing technical instructions supported by your own notes, research and development.
ELEC41010 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS 4 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
DRAM60174 PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENT 6 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
DRAM60213 STAGING THE CLASSICS 6 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MECH61010 STRUCTURES AND FEA 6 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MECH51021 TEAM DESIGN PROJECT FOR SUSTAINABILITY 5 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MEDP30000 TEAM PROJECT (MEDIA) 3 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business This module provides you with a general introduction to the Foundation Year and to the importance of teamwork. Through a short, intensive group project you will work in multi-disciplinary teams and will be encouraged to develop communication skills through tutor and student-led activities. Studio work will be supported by introductory lectures, seminars and demonstrations, each followed by hands-on practical activities. To extend the learning that takes place in class your will be expected to engage in independent study outside of timetabled sessions.
DRAM60221 THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION PRODUCTION 6 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
MEDP30002 THEORY AND PRACTICE IN MEDIA 3 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business This module introduces you to different creative practitioners work and their reasons for making various decisions and using different techniques. The module explores the work of these practitioners in different contexts. You will attend a series of lectures exploring narratives, genre and story telling and will carry out further independent research into areas of interest. By undertaking the module, you will gain a better understanding of how and why you should use various techniques in your own work.
MECH61050 VIBRATION ANALYSIS 6 15 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
DRAM60300 WRITING DRAMA (STAGE/SCREEN) 6 30 Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business