Contemporary Creative Practice: Moving Image (Top-up)

at Burton and South Derbyshire College

Study options

Award

BA (Hons)

Key facts

UCAS code:
W611
Location:
Burton and South Derbyshire College
Location:
Burton and South Derbyshire College
Study option:
Full-time, top-up
Study option:
Part-time, top-up
Duration:
1 Year
Duration:
2 Years
School:
School of Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business

Top up your qualification

Top up your foundation qualification to a full degree

learn industry skills

Learn skills in creative software

Create a portfolio

Tailor your studies to your interests in photography or TV & film

In partnership with Burton and South Derbyshire College, we are offering this Contemporary Creative Practice: Moving Image top up course to give you the expertise to back-up your passions and expertise in the creative industries.

Perfect your skills in planning, producing and editing moving images to take to the creative industries. This top-up course will allow you to turn your existing qualification into a full BA (hons), proving your skills in moving image in media.

You will also learn to perfect your research, communication and teamwork skills which will give you a strong foundation for employment in the media and other industries.

Perfect your skills in planning, producing and editing moving images to take to the creative industries. This top-up course will allow you to turn your existing qualification into a full BA (hons), proving your skills in moving image in media.

You will also learn to perfect your research, communication and teamwork skills which will give you a strong foundation for employment in the media and other industries.

On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: BA (Hons) Contemporary Creative Practice: Moving Image

On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: BA (Hons) Contemporary Creative Practice: Moving Image

Course content

As a Level 6 student you will learn relevant industry skills and processes, and graduate with a refined and professional portfolio of work. You will work practically through client-led and negotiated briefs that require the recognition and application of professional practice. You will also be aware of professional expectations and be able to develop an independent route towards your individual career or postgraduate goals.

Your tutors will act as facilitators, encouraging discussion and debate on subjects of social and cultural relevance, so that you can identify options and develop effective solutions to meet agreed objectives. Our staff maintain strong links with industry through membership and association with professional organisations, they are practitioners in their field and their aim will be able to assist you in Level 6 to pursue new approaches to your subject as well as develop the transferable and technological skills necessary for you to compete in the changing global environment of contemporary creative practice.

As a Level 6 student you will learn relevant industry skills and processes, and graduate with a refined and professional portfolio of work. You will work practically through client-led and negotiated briefs that require the recognition and application of professional practice. You will also be aware of professional expectations and be able to develop an independent route towards your individual career or postgraduate goals.

Your tutors will act as facilitators, encouraging discussion and debate on subjects of social and cultural relevance, so that you can identify options and develop effective solutions to meet agreed objectives. Our staff maintain strong links with industry through membership and association with professional organisations, they are practitioners in their field and their aim will be able to assist you in Level 6 to pursue new approaches to your subject as well as develop the transferable and technological skills necessary for you to compete in the changing global environment of contemporary creative practice.

Entry requirements

FdA, HND, (Level 5 progression route)

FdA, HND, (Level 5 progression route)

 
Careers

With an Ba (Hons) in Contemporary Creative Practice: Moving Image you will develop your expertise for use in your current or a vibrant career in the media.

Your skills will also give you a broad knowledge of the editing and theoretical side of moving image for implementation in the content production side of many modern day businesses.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching

Teaching approaches can include for example theoretical structure, group work, practical workshops, seminars, tutor-led and self-managed study, research projects, and guest lectures. Each of these will be used on your modules so you get the chance to learn as effectively as possible.

Teaching approaches can include for example theoretical structure, group work, practical workshops, seminars, tutor-led and self-managed study, research projects, and guest lectures. Each of these will be used on your modules so you get the chance to learn as effectively as possible.

Assessment

We have carefully designed assessments in order to use the best methods available to assess the integrated approach to theory and practice that you’ll engage in within the content creation discipline. Your coursework, carried out in response to assignments, project briefs or self-initiated proposals, will be presented in forms appropriate to that in the workplace and will require you to work both individually and in teams in generating computing solutions to set problems. To back up your work you will also write reports and deliver presentations. Formative assessment is carried out in tutorial and practical sessions and feedback is usually provided to you orally.

We have carefully designed assessments in order to use the best methods available to assess the integrated approach to theory and practice that you’ll engage in within the content creation discipline. Your coursework, carried out in response to assignments, project briefs or self-initiated proposals, will be presented in forms appropriate to that in the workplace and will require you to work both individually and in teams in generating computing solutions to set problems. To back up your work you will also write reports and deliver presentations. Formative assessment is carried out in tutorial and practical sessions and feedback is usually provided to you orally.

Feedback

Your course will provide you with opportunities to test your understanding of your subject informally (through formative feedback) before you complete the formal assessments. Each module normally includes practice or 'formative' assessments for which you receive feedback from your tutor.

Practice assessments are developmental and any grades you receive for them do not count towards your module mark but are essential for you to develop academically as a student. There is a formal or 'summative' assessment at the end of each module and the grades from formal assessments count towards your module mark.

You will normally receive feedback on coursework assessments within 20 working days following the date of submission. The feedback you receive will help to focus you to achieve better grades on the next set of modules you study.

Your course will provide you with opportunities to test your understanding of your subject informally (through formative feedback) before you complete the formal assessments. Each module normally includes practice or 'formative' assessments for which you receive feedback from your tutor.

Practice assessments are developmental and any grades you receive for them do not count towards your module mark but are essential for you to develop academically as a student. There is a formal or 'summative' assessment at the end of each module and the grades from formal assessments count towards your module mark.

You will normally receive feedback on coursework assessments within 20 working days following the date of submission. The feedback you receive will help to focus you to achieve better grades on the next set of modules you study.

Fees

For the course starting on 23 September 2024 the tuition fees are:

Study option UK / Channel Islands
Full-time £6,350 per year of study

For the course starting on 23 September 2024 the tuition fees are:

Study option UK / Channel Islands
Part-time £3,175 per year of study

UK and Channel Island students: This tuition fee is agreed subject to UK government policy and parliamentary regulation. If the UK government passes appropriate legislation, the fee for subsequent years of study may increase in each academic year. But this increase will not exceed the rate of inflation as measured by RPIX**. Any change in fees will apply to both new and continuing students. The University will notify students of any change as early as possible. Further information about fee changes would be posted on the University’s website once this becomes available.

**RPIX is a measure of inflation equivalent to all the items in the Retail Price Index (RPI) excluding mortgage interest payments.

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