BASIC COURSE DATA
Title of the Course:
Duration: Four Years Sandwich Course
Mode: Full Time
Details of the Multimedia Communicationscourse.
COURSE PHILOSOPHY
Technological advances in computing, communications, networking and consumer electronics are constantly influencing our way of living. The telecommunications revolution for example was fueled over the last decade by the extensive use of fibre optics, enabling broadband services distribution over much longer distances than ever before, satellite communication, and wireless communications. The trends are for longer distance wire or wireless broadband communications, but networked.
The ever increasing power and decreasing size of computers will make them near ubiquitous in our lives. There are at least 10 electric motors in products in most households. The computer is catching fast in its presence at home. Computers are smaller, more powerful and networked, and the advent of the Internet is a manifestation of the power of the computer in networking people.
The consumer electronics industry is making great strives in penetrating the home market, and we only need to mention the radio, TV, videos, camcorders, audio tapes, CD players, cameras, watches, etc., to envisage the scale of developments in the field. There is a trend for smaller cheaper high quality stand alone and also of late connected products. A lot of people at home can afford therefore to create 'multimedia content' with such innovative products.
However, further to ever increasing developments of technologies in the above mentioned markets, a unique pattern is beginning to emerge, that a technological convergence between telecommunications, consumer electronics and computer industries. There is a blurring of the boundaries between the technologies and new opportunities emerge. Applications such as email and multimedia mail, the world wide web and many new ones, already affect the way we think and work.
The convergence of computers, communication and consumer electronics, the explosive growth of the internet and multimedia applications would have a profound effect in our lives, working environment, and particularly in engineering which forges it.
This course is designed to create graduates with strong knowledge in creating multimedia products, and interface design, such as web design, the technologies and network infrastructure involved for the storage, retrieval and dissemination of multimedia information and finally with knowledge in the the design and engineering issues of technologies for communicating the multimedia information.
It is conceivable that such graduates would be employable as web interface designers, multimedia designers, software programmers, computer communications, network support for example.
For further information please contact the Multimedia Communications course administrator at Bournemouth University
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