School of Design

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Digital Media
數碼媒體(榮譽)文學士學位


Sept 2021 Entry

Programme code: 73432
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Duration & Credit Requirement

Duration and Credit Requirement


Mode of Study
Full-time
Normal Duration

2 years

Credits Required for Graduation

64

Programme Intake
33
Fund Type
Government-Funded
Consider Second Choice Applications
Yes
Programme Leader(s)

Dr. OH Jae-Eun
PhD

Remarks
  • This is a two-year full-time top-up degree programme for local applicants.
  • The normal credit required for graduation of this programme is 64. Students not meeting the equivalent standard of the Undergraduate Degree Language Communication Requirements (LCR) based on their previous studies in AD/HD programmes and their academic performance will be required to take additional 3 to 9 credits of English and/or Chinese language subject(s) on top of the normal credit requirements.
  • Offer preference may be given to applicants who has satisfied the minimum English language requirement.

  • Info Seminar: to be announced

Aims & Characteristics

Aims and Characteristics

Programme Aims 

The programme aims to produce idea-driven content designers regardless of their disciplines. It rights the paradigm of confusing creativity based on ideas with fabrication based on technical know-how. With this in mind, students are also taught the necessary technical, entrepreneurial and analytical skills to become self-learning and self-enabling for the successful execution a given creative idea.
 

The programme facilitates learning in the following areas.
 

Professional/Academic Knowledge and Skills

  • The ability to generate fresh and engaging ideas for content creation
  • The ability to properly manage resources for a production
  • The ability to create well serving, well positioned, well-crafted and successfully engaging content from an idea
     

Generic Skills for All-roundedness

  • Ability to evolve and be self-growing

 

 

Characteristics

We facilitate personal growth in students through self-discovery, self-discipline, self-analysis and self-learning. We encourage independent thinking, successful positioning and inventive creation through contextual awareness, imagination, collaboration and knowledge application.

Curriculum

Curriculum

The Programme is a top-up degree. It focuses on non-interactive content creation by way of strengthen basic technical skills in video production and animation in the first year. In the second year, emphasis is placed on shifting the paradigm to think not so much in terms of technical skills but in terms of creating ideas to drive those skills. Students will be placed in real projects, providing real creative media solutions to real clients. Students will also be focusing on developing and executing their Capstone Project within the second year.
 

General University Requirement (9 credits)

  • Cluster-Area Requirement subjects (6 credits)
  • Service Learning (3 credits)
  • Language and Communication Requirements (LCR) 
    [Students not meeting the equivalent standard of the Undergraduate Degree LCR will be required to take additional LCR subject(s).]
     

Compulsory Subjects (49 credits)

  • Applied Media Aesthetics
  • Sound Design
  • Character Design
  • Creative Process Design
  • Storytelling
  • Entrepreneurship for Content Designers
  • Digital Media Studio I - Digital Video Production
  • Digital Media Studio II - Animation
  • Co-operative Project
  • Capstone Project 1: Digital Media
  • Capstone Project 2: Digital Media
  • Professional English for Digital Media Design Students
  • Professional Communication in Chinese for Design Students 
     

Two Elective Subjects (6 credits)

  • Advanced Animation
  • Advanced Visual Effects
  • Advanced Storytelling

Recognition & Prospects

Recognition and Prospects

Professional Recognition

Graduates may apply for membership in professional bodies such as the following:

  • The Hong Kong Designers Association
  • The Chartered Society of Designers
  • The Association for Computing Machinery SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques)

 

 

Career Prospects

This programme adopts the motto of ‘content is king’ wherein ‘idea will always lead execution’. It trains content designers by giving them the necessary tools to compete in the world of digital media and digital entertainment. Given that intellectual property is a significant source for economic growth, having that winning idea means a chance of being placed in a commanding position.

Entrance Requirements

Entrance Requirements

  • A Higher Diploma, an Associate Degree in a relevant discipline from a recognised institution.

Enquiries

Enquiries

For further information, please visit the programme website here ;

or contact the General Office (tel: 2766 5346; email: sdgrace@polyu.edu.hk).

Student Message

Student Message


You may click HERE to view this year's student works.


Student works

Additional Documents Required

Additional Documents Required


Transcript / Certificate

Required

Others

Copies of public examination result slip(s) demonstrating applicants' English language proficiency, e.g. HKDSE, HKALE, HKCEE, IELTS, TOFEL, etc. (for reference only)

Interview Arrangement

Interview Arrangement


Date: Between February and May
Mode:Admission test and/or interview
Aims:

To evaluate the potential and interest of applicants for the programme.

Medium:English
Duration:

aound 15 minutes for interview

Remark:

1) Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an admission test and/or interview.
2) Shortlisted applicants will be informed in due course about the details of portfolio submission.
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