BA (Hons) New Media Art (3rd Year Entry)

University of the West of Scotland

BA (Hons) New Media Art (3rd Year Entry)

  • Country United Kingdom
  • Course Duration 24 month
  • Course Type Full Time
  • Courses Campus On Campus
  • Language Specification IELTS
  • Program Level Undergraduate
  • Education Required Grade 12 /Equivalent to 12th
  • Admission intake SEP
  • Minimum GPA 70
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Application Charges

Application Fee Tution Fee
Free GBP 14,500

Application Date

Application Start Date Application Closing Date
2023-02-09
2023-08-19

Program Description

The BA (Hons) New Media Art helps you discover and develop your artistic practices through diverse platforms from illustration, moving image, animation, multimedia, sound art, live performance etc. and prepares you to become a leading creative practitioner.You’ll develop your artistic practices by trying your hand at a range of different creative mediums, including illustration, animation, live media, installations, projection mappings, creative coding and VR.Over the course of this degree, you’ll create a comprehensive portfolio which will showcase your talents and give you a competitive edge when entering the job market.By keeping up with cultural trends, the BA New Media Art will equip you with the creative and critical learning skills to effectively explore the relationship between art-making and emerging media technology within social, political and historical contexts.
BA (Hons) New Media Art is a two-year undergraduate degree and aims to provide a creative and critical learning platform where students explore diverse relationships between artmaking and emerging media technologies.You will discover/rediscover and develop your creative practices through the following four phases:
  • Image-based: Photography, Illustration and Collage
  • Time-based: Film, Animation, Installation Art, Participatory Art
  • Space-based: Projection Art, Sound Art, Immersive Media
  • Specialism-based: Portfolio Development, Independent Projects
Throughout the course, you will learn historical, contemporary, cultural and social contexts of new media art and will be introduced to a range of media technologies that can be utilised in arts and other creative applications.New media technologies and contexts introduced each year will encourage you to become experimental in learning and utilising technologies in art making, critical in situating your practices at a historical, social, cultural and political context. You will also work within or across fine art, conceptual art, installation art, film, animation, graphic design, illustration, projection art, sound art, interactive art, immersive art, community arts or/and education.New Media Art captures the technological innovations which now inform and connect all aspects of contemporary life – providing a way to understand and communicate the relationships between people, places and things. This creative field is now recognised as being one of the fastest growing creative art forms in the world today – with exciting directions being forged by an upcoming generation of artists who recognised the intersections between creative art practice and new technologies.

Other Requirements

  • Require SQA HND / BTEC Level 5 HND: Art & Design, Computer Arts and Design, Contemporary Arts Practice, Filmcraft and Animation, Photography, Visual Communication, Digital Media for Design and Print, Computer Art and Design, Sound Production, Technical Theatre, Technical Theatre and Production Arts
  • 70% in Class XII English and the certificate should be not be more than 8 years old at the time of making the application.No MOI letter would be accepted henceforth.However, please note that students will require an IELTS or equivalent, if applying from the following School Education Boards: 1. Punjab Board,2. Haryana Board,3. Uttar Pradesh (UP) Board or4. Jammu & Kashmir (J & K) Board.

Extra Notes


* NOTE : The Tuition Fee is subject to change Semester wise, as such for exact Tuition Fee kindly see the Website of the respective University.
* NOTE : Pathways : Students who want to pursue a Graduate Degree through a particular University but are unable to meet the university requirements for the GPA, GRE/GMAT or English Language scores, have to take up an additional academic and language support i.e. pathways in order to ensure the admit and study at the desired University.