COURSE: BA IN MULTIMEDIA STUDIES (AUDIOVISUAL ...

The purpose of the BA (with specialisation in Multimedia Studies) is to provide students with interdisciplinary learning, broadly-based knowledge and skills, and applied competence through the medium of the computer in the field of digital Multimedia production. The greatest advantage of this programme is that it will equip students with skills which allow for entrepreneurial as well as other employment opportunities.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years part time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Two-dimensional imaging


• Form and motion


• Music in society


• Fundamentals of communication


• Visual literacy


• Art today


• End-user Computing


• Computer systems: fundamental concepts

Second year subjects:

• Visual arts


• The sociology of music


• Music technology – digital audio


• Integrated organisational communication


• Introduction to programming


• Writing skills for the communications industry

Third year subjects:

• Visual arts


• Professional multimedia practice


• Democratic rites: ‘music in the mix’ in post-liberation South Africa


• Musical entrepreneurship


• Music technology – MIDI


• New media technology

Careers: multimedia production manager, multimedia education facilitator, public relations officer, educational media official.

Source: www.unisa.ac.za​