Games and Animation Production, BA (Hons)

Whether you want to develop your practice in mobile, PC, console, VR or multiplatform games production, or finesse your skills in animation, the vocational focus of this course can help you break into the sector you are interested in. As well as incorporating industry standards throughout, it is taught by active practitioners and visiting experts. You will also undertake a work placement relevant to your career plans.

The course is taught in dedicated rooms in UCW's Knightstone Campus. You will also benefit from the new equipment, modern library and bright and spacious study spaces in our new University Centre in the Winter Gardens, also in the centre of Weston.

This course also offers a comprehensive itinerary of optional visits to studios and businesses in the games and animation industry, and games conventions in the UK and abroad. In recent years and at an additional expense, students have visited EGX in Birmingham and Gamescom in Cologne, for example.

Please click on the next tab to find out more about what you will learn on this programme and how it is taught and assessed.

Please contact UCW's HEART student services team if you have any questions. It would also be great to meet you and show you around at our next Open Day.

Transform your passion for gaming into a career by gaining the skills you will need to produce games and animations alongside studies in other creative and professional disciplines.

The ethos of this course is to develop individuals who can respond creatively to commercial challenges, and who are able to pitch and promote their ideas and work independently and collaboratively to realise them.

This means you will gain an understanding of the key theories and creative and technical skills underpinning the disciplines, explore the markets and ethical considerations relevant to your areas of professional interest, and produce your own games and animations.

On this course you will also benefit from being part of Creative Arts Weston. Here you will join our exciting and passionate creative community, and you will be perfectly placed to join the arts industry, leading the way as part of the next creative generation.