COURSE: BA IN MULTIMEDIA STUDIES (VISUAL MULTI...

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


• Fundamentals of communication


• Visual literacy


• Business management


• End-user Computing


• Computer systems: fundamental concepts

Second year subjects:

• Visual arts


• Art today


• Art and ideology


• Integrated organisational communication


• Introduction to programming


• Music technology – digital audio

Third year subjects:

• Visual arts


• Professional multimedia practice


• Art theory and criticism


• Popular visual culture


• Media studies: content, audiences and production


• New media technology


• Writing skills for the communications industry

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

Source: www.unisa.ac.za​