LM114: BSc in Music, Media and Performance Technology
Year 1, Semester 1
Year 1, Semester 2
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CS4009
Directed Studies 1
Students will be introduced to the skills required to perform a literature
review in a specific area and to critically appreciate media
representative of this area. Research topics include developments in
technology, media forms, music and video, architecture, image and
graphics, and networks of communication.
CS4005
Perceptual Systems and Multimedia
This module aims to create an awareness and understanding amongst
students on how our senses work in order to perceive the world around
us.
CS4021
Digital Media Software and Systems 1
In this module students will examine digital media systems through the
use of specialised software for the processing of images and audio. In
addition, students will create audio and video software projects.
CS4022
Digital Instrument Fundamentals
In this module students will be introduced to the rudiments of music
theory, notation and related concepts. Students will demonstrate their
proficiency in critical listening and analysis, employ digital audio
workstation software for note-based music sequencing and
demonstrate an understanding of digital instrument protocols and
related physical interfaces.
CS4031
Introduction to Digital Media
This module will introduce students to some of the seminal
developments in technology and provide them with a historical
perspective on how these developments have impacted on human
development.
CS4072
Media Programming 2
This module will familiarise media students with computer
programming. Students will learn how to write their own programs to
manipulate images, sound files, movies and text.
CS4061
Media Programming 1
This module will familiarise media students with computer
programming and make them aware of how it can be of benefit to them
in their careers. Students will learn how to write their own programs to
manipulate images.
CS4082
Introduction to Web Development
This module will introduce students to the concepts and techniques
underlying the World Wide Web, such that they will gain a working
knowledge of how to structure and build websites. Students will be
introduced to databases and SQL in order to create dynamic, datadriven web applications.
MA4701
Technological Mathematics 1
This module will introduce students to basic mathematical skills relevant
to technology in particular the fundamental concepts of calculus and
linear algebra.
MA4702
Technological Mathematics 2
The aims of this module are to develop the fundamental concepts and
basic tools of calculus; introduce applications of calculus in science and
technology; and develop and integrate the basic mathematical skills
relevant to technology.
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Year 2, Semester 1
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Year 2, Semester 2
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CS4019
Digital Arts 1
This module will provide students with an introduction to the wide
range of art types and practices which make up the digital arts. It
contextualizes the aesthetics and modes of approach of the digital arts
by presenting the historical development of post 19th century art
practices and technologically mediated art forms.
CS4029
Advanced Audio Productions
This module will give the student an in-depth understanding of the
techniques for recording, processing and dissemination of audio. In
addition, students will be provided with an understanding of audio
processing on both the temporal, spatial and spectral domain.
CS4025
Digital Audio Fundamentals
In this module students will learn to define the steps in the analog to
digital (ADC) and digital to analog (DAC) conversion process;
extrapolate sources of audio errors; discuss relative merits of various
data compression schemes; and assemble a simple recording chain using
a microphone and computer.
CS4034
Digital Media Software and Systems 3
This module will introduce students to the principles behind graphicdesign and animation and the practice of creating graphics and
animations. Students will develop their knowledge and competence of
digital media systems through the use of specialised software.
CS4053
Digital Video Fundamentals
In this module students will learn the underlying processes involved in
analogue and digital video equipment; demonstrate and use technology
for capturing, storing, editing, distributing and reproducing digital
video; and use digital video processing techniques including computer
graphics and effects.
CS4174
Performance Technology 1
In this module students will learn to organize and execute a successful
artistic collaboration in video and audio; program real-time and
distributed software for audio and video; implement real-time digital
signal processing algorithms and environments; and produce work
reflecting current practices in real-time video and audio production.
CS4063
Digital Media Software and Systems 2
In this module students will create software based applications for
sound synthesis; demonstrate a facility with text-based and graphicalbased software systems for audio programming; and organize and
execute a successful artistic work with audio.
CS4815
Computer Graphics
This module will introduce students to the properties of various
interactive graphics systems, input and output devices, and graphic
libraries. Students will use a graphics library to draw and manipulate
2D and 3D images and understand the issues that arise in the creation,
storage and display of graphic images.
ET4151
Digital Electronics 1
In this module students will manipulate the representation of numbers;
move between and make use of the different representations of digital
circuits; describe the use of LED displays; use laboratory equipment such
as power supplies, digital components, cables, oscilloscopes; and build
and test simple digital circuits.
CS4826
Human Computer Interaction
The module will provide a broad introduction to a variety of topics
concerning user interface design, usability studies, integrating human
factors in software development, and social and organizational factors
involved in implementing systems. It will examine guidelines and
standards, as well as emerging interaction paradigms.
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Year 3, Semester 1
Module Code
CS4310
Module Title
Cooperative Education
An integral part of the course is the Cooperative Education period,
during which the student will spend eight months (i.e. includes the
Summer of Year 2) working in a course-related job in a business or
industrial environment outside the University.
Year 3, Semester 2
Module Code
Module Title
CS4026
Digital Media Software and Systems 4
In this module students will undertake a series of laboratory projects (i)
concerned with both audio and video and (i) creating music composition
systems.
CS4030
Digital Arts 2
This module builds upon a range of modules especially Digital Arts 1. It
deepens the engagement with this field by introducing the perceptual
and aesthetic ramifications of the digital arts and situates the wide
range of practices within cultural, psychological, political and economic
models.
The applied nature of this work placement complements the academic
dimension of the course.
CS4040
CS4358
Advanced Video Production
This module will give students a theoretical grounding in digital media
formats, to explore the fusion of the sonic with the visual and to
combine skills in video, graphics and animation toward creating higherquality video content.
Interactive Multimedia
Students will evaluate interactive multimedia designs based on a
human-centred, iterative approach; develop use scenarios for a given
interactive problem domain and define as well as assess usability for
interactive media products.
Electives - Choose One
CS4056
CS4458
MD4036
Mobile Application Design
This module will introduce students on digital media and music technology
programmes to the creation of content and the development of applications for
mobile devices.
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
This module will introduce students to the CSCW and groupware field. It will
cover basic concepts in the field and include an examination of software systems
designed to support cooperative work - their design, use and evaluation.
Contextualising and Vocational Studies 5
This module will provide students with an understanding of the historical and
theoretical trends in the disciplines of Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology;
skills to analyse and discuss various approaches to fieldwork practice; and use a
variety of representational strategies for the fieldwork and ethnographic
experience.
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Year 4, Semester 1
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Year 4, Semester 2
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CS4049
Visual Coding
To module will introduce students to the principles behind algorithmic
visuals and the practice of creating visuals.
CS4050
Directed Studies 2
The module aims to deepen students' understanding of a specific
interaction between technology and creative practice and to develop
students research and writing skills.
CS4107
Performance Technology 2
In this module students will develop their knowledge of performance
technology in the context of interactive environments for digital media
through a combination of laboratory based small group project work
and lecture based learning.
CS4059
Creative Coding
To introduce students to the design and development of interactive
audio-visual artworks using low level coding.
CS4187
Professional Issues in Computing
This module focuses on the ethical, legal and social consequences of the
design, implementation and use of computer and information systems.
CS4238
Music and Media Project 2
The rationale for this module, and the preceding module (CS4237), is to
allow students, through the medium of undertaking a substantial
individual project, to integrate and apply their previous learning and to
deepen their knowledge of some particular application or research area
relevant to the course.
CS4237
Music and Media Project 1
The rationale for this module, and the succeeding module (CS4238), is to
allow students, through the medium of undertaking a substantial
individual project, to integrate and apply their previous learning and to
deepen their knowledge of some particular application or research area
relevant to the course.
CS4457
Project Management and Practice
To examine the processes by which the development of computer-based
information systems is managed, and the considerations needed for
successful implementation of such systems.
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