Our undergraduate computer arts courses are BA (Hons) Computer Arts and BA (Hons) Visual Communication & Media Design. Both of these exciting courses will teach you the skills employers need to work in new media. Our focus on developing the next generation of professionals will see you work in a studio environment, in small, multidisciplinary teams with industry contact.
The experts at Abertay, who have close links with the industry, will teach you the core art, design and software skills needed to succeed. From this strong basis, the different courses develop your professional skills in the creation of imagery and audio for computer-based online and offline content production.
Our postgraduate computer arts course is MA Game Art & Animation, which is targeted specifically at producing very highly skilled artists for the computer games industry. Abertay is an internationally-renowned leader in computer games education. Here you will work closely with expert lecturers, industry professionals and students studying on a wide range of computer arts and games-related courses.
Your artistic skills will be developed through a series of challenging projects, all based on the working environment of real companies. You will develop impressive technical abilities, and will be able to produce art and animation in 2D and 3D for different forms of game or electronic entertainment. As a quickly growing sector, skilled postgraduates are in high demand.
Graduates from Abertay’s computer arts courses are highly prized by employers. As the UK’s first Centre for Excellence in Computer Games Education, and the first university to award a computer games degree in the world, Abertay graduates are internationally respected throughout the industry.
The career options open to you once you graduate are varied and constantly developing. Graduates with highly crafted computer arts skills can work within the computer games, entertainment, digital media, film and TV industries. An Abertay degree will put you at the forefront of this rapidly developing sector.
The computer arts courses you can study at Abertay are:
BA (Hons) Computer Arts
BA (Hons) Visual Communication & Media Design
