Creative Computing, BSc (Hons)

Course summary

Explore our specialist arts campus:One of only a few specialist art schools in the Russell Group, you’ll be inspired to create in our purpose built studios and workshops and learn with expert creative practitioners at Winchester School of Art (WSA), part our University of Southampton community and just one hour from London. You’ll have industry exposure through guest lectures, work on live briefs with companies, explore work placements and internships where graduates have gone on to set up their own design labels or work at prestigious brands across the globe including Selfridges, Saatchi & Saatchi, Alexander McQueen, Burberry, ASOS, Nike and Apple. You’ll be prepared for a wide range of creative careers where 93% of Arts graduates were in employment or further study 15 months after graduation (Graduate Outcomes 2020/2021, published in 2023).Study BSc Creative Computing:Design and build innovative digital experiences that bring art, science, and technology together on our creative computing degree. You'll get the experience you need to succeed in creative digital industries, using sculpture and fabrication, textiles, and 3D printing. Build your strengths and skills in team production and design systems thinking. You'll use industry-standard technology and philosophical and ethical approaches throughout this creative computing course. Creating digital projects that relate to culture, society, and the environment.You'll research the aesthetic, sustainable, and political aspects of computer media formats including:networkssocial mediadigital gamesopen source and activist initiativesAs a creative computing student, you'll benefit from:virtual reality, augmented reality, robot design and programming systemsaccess to fabrication and construction equipmentworking directly with the research labs focusing on social and collaborative computing guest speakers and taking part in industry events and projects across the whole School of Artchances to showcase your work both in the UK and internationallyoptional study trips abroad and in the UK, to visit museums, galleries, and industry eventsYou have the opportunity to spend an additional year in industry. You can also do short internships and get the opportunity to study abroad.

You can choose modules that suit your interests and career goals. You can focus on programming skills, user experience design, or building digital projects through sculpture and fabrication, textiles or 3D printing. Whatever you decide, you will gain experience in team production. Some of the modules you may study include: Algorithmic Thinking & Methods, Introduction to Digital Culture, Pervasive Media Exploration, Creative Computing II: Applied Programming, Creative Industries, Interactivity and Play, Experimental Practice and Research, Final Project 1 & 2, Professional Planning (Creative Computing), Prototyping, Presentation and Evaluation. You could also opt for the Winchester School of Art (WSA) Year Abroad or Year in Employment. Please visit the website for more details on modules: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/creative-computing-degree-bsc#modules