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BSc (Hons) Digital Design and Web Development transcript

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0:00:00
The course is really good because we mix technical skills with design and when it comes to the industry and people go out when they're making digital products which we use every day - they could be streaming products for videos, or music banking apps, or shopping online - they have to be designed by digital designers and then coded up. And what we do, is we offer them a range of skills across all our modules, so either, if they want to take the technical route, their design aware, if they want to take the design route, their tech aware. Because when they go into the industry they'll be working alongside, they would be digital designers we'll be creating UI designs that need to be coded up and also if you take tech routes, you need to work with designers to have an understanding of how products should be usable.
Course leader of Digital Design and Web Development, Martin Reid is sat in The Spark building at Solent University talking to camera. Upbeat music plays in the background.
0:49:21
The best bits about my course are the design tools and techniques that we were taught, that are pretty modern and up-to-date, the level of support that we receive from our lecturers and all the opportunities that they gave us to network.
Student of Digital Design and Web Development, Jasmine Harwood is sat in The Spark building at Solent University talking to camera. Upbeat music plays in the background.
1:04:00
The best things about the course are the skills you can learn that you can use in industry once you've finished, and the facilities in the course as well.
Student of Digital Design and Web Development, Sam Bohlen is sat in The Spark building at Solent University talking to camera. Upbeat music plays in the background.
1:13:03
We have really good facilities here for design and both coding. We have lots of variety of computer labs, either apple mac or windows pcs, which on the course, we use both because programming as well as doing design work.
Course leader of Digital Design and Web Development, Martin Reid is sat in The Spark building at Solent University talking to camera. Upbeat music plays in the background.
1:28:22
They've taught me how to network really well, so I had the confidence to go out and search for a placement myself and make those connections with other creatives in the industry.
Student of Digital Design and Web Development, Jasmine Harwood is sat in The Spark building at Solent University talking to camera. Upbeat music plays in the background.
1:42:04
We bring in practitioners - they could be digital designers, user experience people, as well as coders and developers. So they are from local companies within the area. We also have students present, certainly each year we have a week where we have students who have been out on work experience and they sit up there on a panel and offer support to other students who are looking for work experience. And also, we do have a number of students who work part-time at local agencies where they've got work through networking and they also present and have their experience of how they've got that work.
Course leader of Digital Design and Web Development, Martin Reid is sat in The Spark building at Solent University talking to camera. Upbeat music plays in the background.
2:22:04
This course has helped me to prepare for after uni because we have a lot of networking, we do happy hour talks with industry. People come in and talk about what their experiences are and help us to connect with them on LinkedIn and other social media platforms.
Student of Digital Design and Web Development, Sam Bohlen is sat in The Spark building at Solent University talking to camera. Upbeat music plays in the background.
2:39:01
Solent has a department called Solent Creatives and many of our students have signed up there and got quite a bit of freelance work because their technical skills combined with their design skills for making websites and other digital products, have really been in demand from the clients who have gone to Solent Creatives.
Course leader of Digital Design and Web Development, Martin Reid is sat in The Spark building at Solent University talking to camera. Upbeat music plays in the background.
2:58:06
I would recommend the course because it's helped me a lot with my experience, when coming to uni, I didn't exactly know what I wanted to do, so with the variety on the course it really helped me to narrow down my options and pick which path I want to go in after uni.
Student of Digital Design and Web Development, Sam Bohlen is sat in The Spark building at Solent University talking to camera. Upbeat music plays in the background.
3:13:21
I would recommend this course because it's taught me all of the latest design tools and it's taught me how to network which has given me the confidence to go out and do that myself.
Student of Digital Design and Web Development, Jasmine Harwood is sat in The Spark building at Solent University talking to camera. Upbeat music plays in the background.
3:25:05
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