The School of Creative Technologies was created in August 2002 as a focus for subject development in new areas where digital information and communication technologies were already having an increasing impact, for example, leisure, arts, education and social interactions.
The department continues to grow and now has not only a full range of foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate courses, but also a thriving research community.
The Department of Creative Technologies covers a very wide cross-disciplinary range of subjects from hardcore programming to investigations into the nature of creativity. There are strong art, music, film and games areas within the department, with a particular focus on supporting these areas with appropriate technologies.
03 The continuing rapid change and growth of the media industries means that Creative Technologies is always at the forefront of technology, supporting this with its close ties with industry. Creative Technology students are frequently entrepreneurial and willing to work hard in their chosen areas.
Click here for Creative Technologies administration pages. These contain useful information and links from the Creative Technologies administration office.
View our Rough Guide to the Department of Creative Technologies either in MS Word format (333Kb) Rough Guide .doc or in Adobe Acrobat format (188Kb) Rough Guide .pdf. The Rough Guide contains details of the courses we run in the department and would be useful reading for anyone thinking of coming to study here.
Click here for Creative Technologies Virtual Reality Centre online info and activities created by one of our MSc Digital Media students, Charalampos (Harrys) Apostolopoulous, with assistance from Dr Steve Hand. For more info on the VR centre visit this blog: http://vrlab.blogspot.com/.
News and announcements
Induction week timetables
Induction week (1st-5th October 2007) timetables are now available to view here: Induction Week 2007.
Calendar Dates: Incredibly Useful!
Here is a list of calendar week numbers against dates for the whole year, along with holiday and semester dates. Use the calendar week numbers when you are reading your timetable: Calendar 2007-8 (Excel spreadsheet)
The Playing Club
Interested in computer games? Thinking of postgraduate study? Want to play? Join The Playing Club and explore what makes games tick.
Student sketchbooks online
Look here for a collection of exciting pages from Creative Technologies' students' sketchbooks: CT Sketchbooks
Previous items from this column
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