Masters in Future Communications in Creative Technology
Introduction
About
Programme Structure
Entry Requirements
Modules
Introduction
The MSc developed the role of technology to creatively present your message to the world. The course had an emphasis on Peace and Reconciliation and how best to present a message to diverse cultural and ideologically different audiences. As such this aspect of audience identification coupled with emerging technologies set the scene for development of projects, both team and individual, which permitted ones creative talents to explore
technology and its impact on both delivering the message and audience impact. As such the course provided the environment to develop new skills – both technical and cultural – that permitted useful project activity. The range of projects developed was diverse as was the target audiences selected. Overall the course provided me with the confidence to embark on more creative projects in an audience aware manner.
Peter Gosling - Past Graduate
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About
The PG Dip/MSc in Future Communications in Creative Technology is for people who are aware of and seek out these new opportunities; who refuse to be victims of change, and who will want to use communications and technology efficiently to help shape the future – for society, for the organizations where they will work, and for themselves.
In a society that is constantly undergoing exponential change traditional communication methodologies are no longer wholly appropriate. Already communication design solutions and strategies are undergoing radical rethinking in the light of dramatically widening multicultural, multi platform and multi purpose access.
Opportunities exist for creating new products, new systems, new approaches, setting new standards and developing new thinking on how people and society may evolve as communicators in the digital age. This rapidly expanding domain requires a focus which is more open than traditional and a willingness to explore new opportunities, which may not be part of the current communication practice.
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Programme structure:
The programme consists of two parts; the Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) and the Master of Science Degree (MSc).
The Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) consists of four taught modules; these are completed over a nine-month period (two semesters) starting in September. On satisfactory completion of the taught modules, students may apply to proceed to the MSc.
To study the MSc, you will be required to carry out a major project and submit a final report or a dissertation for examination. This will be completed over a semester following the PgDip.
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Entry Requirements and Application:
Standard applicants: Normally you will require an Honours Bachelor's Degree, at a minimum level of Honours 2.1 or other appropriate and equivalent degree qualification and work experience in a relevant discipline to gain entry onto the programme. Typically, such disciplines would be in the areas of Multimedia, Audio/Visual Media, Computer Science, Internet Technologies, Software Engineering, Visual Communications or Design.
Applicants that do not meet the above requirements may be accepted if then have relevant experience and can satisfy DKIT their prior experiential learning has prepared them adequately to succeed on the course. These applicants will be considered on a case-by-case basis, if you would like to be considered as a non-standard applicant please contact the course director for more information.
All Suitable Applicants will be called for interview and will be asked to present a portfolio of relevant work.
Application forms are available online at www.dkit.ie and, when completed, should be returned to:
The Admissions Office
Dundalk Institute of Technology,
Dundalk, Co. Louth.
Phone: 042-937 0200
Fax: 042-933 3505
E-mail: admissions@dkit.ie
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