Study Guide

Description

Unlock Your Creative Potential with Media and Arts!

Media and Arts is a degree programme for future experts in the creative sector. The curriculum guides you in generating fresh ideas and developing them in high-quality, artistically, technically, ethically and economically successfully manner.

Gain up-to-date competencies in this growing, international, and ever-changing creative sector. Learn how to utilize new media tools and adapt various working methods to projects of different types. With options for practical training and study exchanges abroad, our programme sets the stage for an extraordinary international career. We are located on the Mediapolis Campus, alongside the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE).

In your application, you'll choose a specialisation: Interactive Media, Music and Audio Industry, or Fine Art Lab. Beyond your main focus, you can customize your personal study plan from various modules like animation and VFX, visual design, game design, sound design, event production and business, moving image art, or fine art creative economy.

Upon graduating, you'll possess the skills required in the global creative industry. This sector offers a large amount of job opportunities, including roles as experts, developers, and entrepreneurs in fields such as game production, music and live event production, new media production, service design, and fine art.

Content
The first year provides a broad perspective on the basic skills needed in the media field and chosen specialisation. In autumn, you will study introductional courses and one basic Finnish language course. In the spring term, you will select the first professional studies' 30-credit module of your specialization's core competence area. After the first year, you will know how to use the essential tools and techniques. Projects included in the spring study modules will also involve work with customers in different sectors.

In the second year, you will choose a second 30-credit module from the whole Media and Arts professional studies offering for the autumn term and a third module for the spring. Projects included in the modules will also involve work with customers..

During the third year, you will deepen and broaden your professional insight into your specialisation either by participating in an international study exchange or by choosing a fourth 30-credit professional study module at TAMK during autumn. Choosing modules across specializations, other programmes, and including studies from Tampere University's cross-study selection is possible. For example, studying entrepreneurial competencies in Business Programmes or in HUBS is one option. In the spring term, you will start studying methods for your thesis project and study the Work-life Skills module, as well as more language studies. Work-life Skills include career planning, entrepreneurship, preparations for practical training, newest technologies, and a customer project.

The fourth-year program for the autumn term consists of free-choice studies and practical training. In the spring term, you will undertake practical training and produce a Bachelor's thesis.

Carve Your Own Study Path
Please note that the description of the studies given above is just an example of a study plan. You will have the opportunity to plan your individual study program with your teacher tutors and your study counsellor
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Specialisations:
The main specialisations are Interactive Media, Music and Audio Industry, and Fine Art Lab. These professional studies are subdivided into 30-credit professional study modules (animation and VFX, visual design, games academy, user experience design, web and app design and development, music production and business, live event production, sound design, new tools and methods in music and event production, photography, color and drawing, moving image art, and fine art creative economy). There are also joint courses and projects with, e.g., the Finnish AV Media programme and International Business.

You can build your own field of expertise by choosing or combining studies from the range of study options on offer. Combining studies from more than one study path is possible after the first year. The curriculum also contains large sections and projects, such as the one-year-long Game Academy, which are shared between different study paths and with other degree programs. Collaboration with Tampere University will open more options for course selection and projects.

Structure of Studies:
The scope of the degree program is 240 ECTS credits in total, consisting of:
• basic and professional studies (150 ECTS credits)
• elective professional studies (30 ECTS credits)
• practical training (30 ECTS credits)
• free-choice studies (15 ECTS credits)
• Bachelor’s thesis (15 ECTS credits)

To ensure good possibilities for employment, the studies include about five months (30 ECTS credits) of practical training. It is recommended that you familiarize yourself with more than one work task and working place during the training period. You will receive guidance for the practical training from a supervising teacher at TAMK, and the school and the workplace will jointly agree on your working and learning objectives.

Thesis
The final project required for the Bachelor’s degree consists of the thesis, an evaluation seminar, and a maturity test. The thesis and the written report may take different forms while fitting the interests and needs of the student and following the Tamk’s thesis guidelines.

Career Opportunities
Graduates of the degree program have many challenging national and international job opportunities, for example, in digital media companies, advertising agencies, game houses, publishing companies, booking agencies, event production companies, recording and mastering studios, art organizations, galleries, production companies, television, theatre, content production and record companies.

Possible job titles include project manager, producer, concept designer, game artist, graphic designer, animator, design lead, UX/UI designer, web designer, web programmer, VFX artist, sound designer, songwriter, performing artist, live sound and light engineer, event producer, artist (Fine Art), art photographer, art gallerist, curator or producer, and production manager.

Objectives

Goals
The focus of the degree programme is to provide up-to-date competencies in a continuously changing and growing international creative sector. The studies follow three main specialisations:

• Interactive Media
• Music and Audio Industry
• Fine Art Lab

Specialisations' professional studies are subdivided into professional study modules: animation and VFX, games academy, user experience design, visual design, music production and business, live event production, sound design, new tools and methods in music and event production, photography, color and drawing, moving image art, fine art and creative economy, and work-life skills. There are also joint courses and projects with, e.g., the Finnish AV Media Programme and International Business Programme.
You can build your own field of expertise by choosing or combining studies from the range of study options on offer.

The general aim of the studies is for students to become professionals who are able to work as developers, and entrepreneurs in fields such as game companies, music and live event production, new media production, service design and operators in the fine art field like visual artist, gallery director, art curators, both in Finland and abroad.

On a more specific level, the main objectives are that the graduate will:
• become capable of creative innovations and solutions that can be applied in practice
• master the media, working methods, and technology of his/her speciality
• be able to design, create, and lead media- and art-related productions ethically and sustainably
• be able to act professionally in typical communication and interaction situations in the field
• be able to design, create, and lead media- and art-related productions and act as a member of a team
• acquire the competence to enter both national and international fields of employment as a professional and as an entrepreneur

Curriculum development and working life cooperation

Studying in the Media and Arts Programme is typically: creative, practical, project-based, production-oriented, international, and often conducted in co-operation with the professional field, partner companies and institutions.