Re: UKNM: Fresh Horses

[Siobhan McVeigh]

hi everyone just back from holiday and trawling through email came across this

- know it was a while ago but it caught my eye...


there is an EU funded course 'European Media Masters Award' which is taught at

University of Art and Design at Helsinki, Dublin Institute of Technology,

Hogeschool voore de Kunsten at Utrecht, London College of Printing (London

Institute), Portsmouth University, Centre Nationale de la Bande Desinee ate

Angouleme, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, UIAH in Helsinki and a couple

of other colleges in Mallorca and Stuttgart.


the MA covers different aspects of digital media at the different colleges, but

every year there is a forum where all the students meet up and discuss their

work which is a fantastic way of appreciating the bigger picture of digital

development.  the course at LCP is 'Media Technology Administration' and covers

standard MBA topics of marketing, finance, project management, change

management, human resource development and management etc, but focusing on

digital convergence and with a wider appreciation of the global nature of world

media, developments in communication theory, emerging ethical/legal issues.

The M.A is part-time over two years and students must have 3 years media

experience.


I've just finished it and I've found it really interesting. I think it's a bit

different to other courses because of the european element and also because it

teaches management skills but in relation to a very specific area of media and

technology.  If you would like more information on the course contact Joan

Burks at LCP, or for more general info. on EMMA try CITE (Centre for

International Technology and Education)  - Charles DaCosta at LCP.


hope you all had fabulous festive seasons! :) s




chris wrote:


 > At 12:47 16/12/99 -0000, you wrote:

 >  >Any opinions of colleges and/or courses of significant worth?

 >  >

 >  >Who is turning out the best crop and why?

 >

 > I've *some* previous experience in this area. ;)

 >

 > Designers - most of the good colleges are churning out web-savvy students

 > whether they encourage it or not.  The visionaries seem to be at the RCA,

 > and Middlesex's courses produce a good crop.

 >

 > Coders - CS departments have major trouble hanging on to students who are

 > good at coding for internet applications - UCL's CS department has produced

 > some existing stars (step forward Stefan Magdalinksi) and continues to be

 > one of the best departments in the UK for research.  It has excellent

 > industry links to people like Stephen Emmott and the NCR Knowledgelab.

 >

 > Editors/Journalists/managers - Falmouth College of Arts in Cornwall runs a

 > journalism course that is heavily biased towards on-line Journalism - one

 > of their students won the Guardian Student Web Site category of the

 > Guardian Student Media Awards this year.  I'm biased because I helped set

 > up the course.  UCL also has the Xerox-sponsored MA in Electronic

 > Communication & Publishing.  Again, I'm biased because I set up this

 > course.  The new course-leader has changed it quite a lot so I'm not sure

 > precisely what the course covers now, but we tried to cram in everything we

 > could in the first year, from basic HTML and javascript to the cultural

 > impact of the web and future systems.  I still believe the best

 > editors/project managers are people from non-CS disiplines who bring

 > prespective from another discipline to the web. The MA I ran at UCL was

 > intended to bridge the skills gap between completing an arts/humanities BA

 > and entering the industry.

 >

 > Of course, the best way for everyone on this list to ensure that the

 > calibre of students meets their skills gaps is to talk to the courses and

 > give free lectures.  Last feb I took 10 people to Falmouth for a week of

 > industry lectures, and I still lecture occasionally for free at UCL and do

 > external examining for the Oxford Brookes MA in Multimedia.  It helps the

 > courses develop as they get a clearer picture of how the industry is

 > developing, and you get (sometimes) to pick of the cream of the students

 > before everyone else!

 >

 > chris.



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