During your Foundation Year, you will undertake modules to enable you to enhance your academic skills and equip you with the tools you’ll need to study with confidence. You’ll carry out a personal project so you can study an area of interest related to your chosen future subject specialisation.
​You’ll study the principles of coding, learning and applying these skills to create simple apps. You’ll study web development and produce code for a website and will explore social media integration, data capture and cyber security.
Following successful completion of your Foundation Year, you’ll progress onto Year 1 of our Computer Science with Games Development BSc (Hons) degree.
Developed alongside employers, this course aims to address the skills shortage in the applications and games development industry.
You’ll gain a thorough understanding of the fundamental areas of computer science and develop your ability to design, code, integrate, test, deploy and decommission creative software. You’ll explore the computing and digital industries and look at how computer science can be applied across a wide variety of other sectors.
We’ll support you as you challenge your own curiosity and creativity, and enhance your technical, problem-solving and critical-thinking skills throughout your studies.
You’ll be taught by lecturers with industry experience and research expertise in areas including cybersecurity, AI, algorithmic solutions, UI, accessibility and extensibility. You’ll also learn about legal considerations relevant to the online and app-based games industry and the contractual, regulatory and legal principles within which the sector operates.
Modern apps and games development also requires an understanding of the importance of ethics, inclusion, diversity and equity, each of these principles is embedded in the modules you’ll study so you can apply them in your work.
Professional work placements and employer projects are integral to this course, allowing you to gain relevant work experience, build your knowledge of the app/games development sector and be able to obtain valuable employer references and industry contacts.
By the time you graduate, you’ll have been able to develop the necessary knowledge and skills in computer science and games development for your chosen career path.
Why study with us?
- Build your self-confidence, academic skills and core subject knowledge in preparation for progression onto degree-level study and becoming a more independent learner.
- Learn the skills needed to become an apps/games development professional with knowledge of the latest contractual, regulatory and legal obligations in the industry.
- Understand the impact of ethics, inclusion, diversity and equity on modern app/games development.
- Develop key technical and transferable skills for your future career.
- Gain relevant experience through the professional work placements and employer projects that form part of your course.