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MA Immersive Arts (Virtual and Augmented Reality)

University of Bristol

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  • Qualification

    MA - Master of Arts

  • Location

    Clifton Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    SEP

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

Creative technologies and interactive and immersive media are transforming the ways in which we experience and engage with culture. Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) are being used across a wide range of industries, including games and entertainment theatre and live events museums and heritage marketing, advertising, and tourism architecture and design and simulation and healthcare.This MA will enable you to translate your learning and experience in creative arts (for example writing, theatre, film or music production) into making engaging immersive content and designing innovative interactive experiences. We will equip you with the technical skills and knowledge to succeed in this exciting and rapidly growing sector. Throughout the course, you will learn from world-leading academics and pioneering thought-leaders, and work closely with creative industry partners. This MA equips students with:creative skills and knowledge to work with virtual reality, augmented reality and interactive media,critical, theoretical, and practical skills in creative technologies and immersive storytelling, which underpin effective extended reality experiences (XR),the ability to consider the processes of digital content creation, delivery, and consumption holistically in order to produce interactive media for a range of audiences while meeting technological constraints and addressing live industry briefs,the ability to work across disciplines to produce engaging immersive experiences for a variety of contexts, through working collaboratively with students on the MSc Immersive Technologies (Virtual and Augmented Reality) to bring together skills in creative arts and computer science/software development,skills in responsible innovation and entrepreneurship to become the next generation of leaders in immersive industry startups.The creative, immersive and screen media industries are thriving in Bristol and the region, which makes the city an ideal place to study Immersive Arts. The MA has been co-designed with industry partners and is closely associated with excellent cutting-edge research in immersive technologies and creative practices within the University, for instance MyWorld. The teaching will be research-led, and give students insights into emerging media and how the creative industries are evolving, along with emphasising practical approaches to learning.

Tuition fees

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£ 34,200per year

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University information

University of Bristol

University of Bristol

University of Bristol

  • University League Table

    15th

  • Campus address

    Main Site, Beacon House, Queens Road, Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1QU, United Kingdom

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Bristol is one of the UK's leading research universities, with a curriculum informed by the latest research and degrees taught by expert academics.
Over a quarter of Bristol students are international, with students from more than 150 countries helping to create a friendly and diverse community.
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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Computer Science

    8th out of 117 4

  • Entry standards

    / Max 223
    187 84%

    13th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    95.0 95%

    8th

    15

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    2.99 75%

    74th

    5

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