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Working with Digital Media

Course dates: Thursday 14 January - Friday 25 June 2027

Class timetable: 16 sessions (View class timetable for Thursday 14 January 2027 to Friday 25 June 2027)

Timetable data for Thursday 14 January 2027 to Friday 25 June 2027

Day of class Date of class Time Venue
Thursday 14-Jan-2027 6:00pm - 9:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Thursday 21-Jan-2027 6:00pm - 9:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Thursday 28-Jan-2027 6:00pm - 9:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Thursday 04-Feb-2027 6:00pm - 9:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Thursday 11-Feb-2027 6:00pm - 9:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Thursday 25-Feb-2027 6:00pm - 9:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Thursday 04-Mar-2027 6:00pm - 9:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Thursday 11-Mar-2027 6:00pm - 9:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Thursday 18-Mar-2027 6:00pm - 9:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Thursday 25-Mar-2027 6:00pm - 9:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Thursday 29-Apr-2027 5:00pm - 8:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Thursday 06-May-2027 5:00pm - 8:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Thursday 13-May-2027 5:00pm - 8:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Thursday 20-May-2027 5:00pm - 8:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Thursday 27-May-2027 5:00pm - 8:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London
Friday 25-Jun-2027 9:00am - 4:00pm Birkbeck Campus, Central London

Location: Birkbeck Campus, Central London

Fees: £1640.00

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Course Overview

On this Working with Digital Media short course you will learn about digital content creation and storytelling, broadly defined, from images and sound to generative AI and data visualisation. You will consider and experiment with creative digital media skills and outputs. You will also level up essential skills in digital authoring, editing and analysis, for example in querying and prompting, file conversion and compression, and using presets and templates.

This is a practice-based course, so you will have the opportunity to not only think about digital media, but also to think through and with digital media. We will consider how a growing number of digital devices, platforms, services, apps and models both support and challenge media production and consumption.

Through hands-on experimentation, you will develop a greater appreciation of basic creative techniques and outputs. At the same time, this experimentation will help you better appreciate how and why scholars, including you, theorise, research and use digital media.

Assessment is via a storyboard (30%) and 3-5-minute desktop documentary plus 800-1000-word critical reflection (70%).

As a student on this course, you will study alongside Birkbeck students enrolled on one of our undergraduate or postgraduate courses, giving you the opportunity to network with a range of Birkbeck current students whilst you learn.

This can be taken as a standalone short course or as part of:

Credits: 30 credits at level 4

Fees

Students are charged a tuition fee for each short course on registering. Please view details for this course, including dates, location and fees at the top of this page. Short course fees may be subject to annual inflationary increases. For more information, please see our Fees Policy.

Birkbeck's Lifelong Learning Guarantee

If you've studied at Birkbeck before and successfully completed an award with us, take advantage of our Lifelong Learning Guarantee to gain a reduction on the tuition fee of this course.

School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication

The school's teaching and research is highly interdisciplinary, spanning cultures and periods. Academic and practice-based study will equip you for a career in the creative and cultural industries.

Entry Requirements

Most of our short courses have no formal entry requirements and are open to all students.

This short course has no prerequisites.

As part of the registration process, you may be required to submit a copy of a suitable form of ID.

International students who wish to come to the UK to study a short course can apply for a Visitor visa. Please note that it is not possible to obtain a Student visa to study a short course.

How to Register

You register directly onto the classes you would like to take. Classes are filled on a first-come, first-served basis - so register early.

If you want to take more than one short course, you can select each one separately and then register onto them together via our online application portal. There is usually no formal selection process, although some modules may have prerequisites and/or other requirements, which will be specified where relevant.