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Talk on HTML5, CSS and Web Standards
 Opera Web Evangelists Bruce Lawson and Patrick Lauke gave a free, 3-hour lecture to a packed audience of new media students and other web designers from Leeds on 5 May 2011. These leading figures in the fields of web design, development, standards and accessibility showcased some of the amazing things that can now be done with HTML5 and CSS3, inspiring all who were present.

What our graduates say:

"For me, the course was excellent, as it gave me a good insight into a broad range of disciplines but still allowed me to specialise in the area I wanted – interaction design."
Danny Blackman, Web Designer (from The Independent, May 2008).
"The New Media course taught me the importance of creativity and its position within a business model. It also gave me a comprehensive understanding of online media and a real confidence in working with clients who are at the forefront of using digital technology."
Will Oatley, New Media Advertising Planner.
"The course was very varied which allowed me to explore the different areas of new media and determine where my strengths lay."
Heena Mistry, Project Manager.

BA Hons New Media

  • Film industry market research tool, 3rd year project, Richard Wild
  • Estate agent recommendation service, 3rd year project, Laura Woolger
  • An iPhone platform game, 3rd year project, Simon Read
  • Music hosting platform for DJs, 3rd year project, Jack Roscoe
  • Dr Faustus interactive novel, 3rd year project, Sarah Turner
  • Social network sentiment analysis tool, 3rd year project, James Hennessey
  • Web freelancing portal, 3rd year project, Peter Owen
  • Animated guide to working in digital advertising, 3rd year project, Adam Hunt
  • 1st year animation project, Emma Maloney
  • 1st year animation project, Wentao Ma
  • 1st year redesign project, David West
  • 1st year redesign project, Oliver Ash
  • 2nd year group project
  • 2nd year group project
  • 2nd year group project
  • 2nd year group project
  • 2nd year group project
  • 2nd year group project

Welcome to the BA Hons New Media at the University of Leeds. Our New Media degree offers a unique blend of new media theory and practice, teaching you all you need for a future in digital and interactive media. The programme covers practical new media design and production, from visual, web and interaction design to advanced database design and programming, as well as the important critical thinking skills that will help you to make sense of new media developments and their place in our social and political world.

Why study with us?

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The BA Hons New Media presents students with a unique opportunity to develop their creative, thinking and practical technical abilities at one of the world's leading universities. There are no other programmes offering this blend of new media theory and practice in the UK's top 20 Russell Group of universities. If you are interested in the opportunity to develop rich portfolios of work to a professional standard, to make sense of current trends in new media in their social and political context, and to develop other important skills such as team working, presentation skills, project planning and research skills, then this is the degree programme for you.

The degree is taught in The Institute of Communications Studies, home to some of the world's leading new media and communications researchers as well as excellent new media practitioners. Students on the BA Hons New Media benefit from interactions with undergraduates on other programmes in the department, sometimes working alongside cinema and photography students, communications students, and students of journalism on shared modules, and sometimes undertaking their own specialist new media modules. As the degree progresses, students are able to focus on their specialist interests, whether these relate to creative or technical new media practice, or to a theoretical analysis of key developments in the new media industries.

Teaching is delivered in a variety of ways including workshops, lectures, tutorials and seminars where students are encouraged to develop their analytical, conceptual and practical thinking. The New Media course is based in the Clothworkers' Building North where it has its own lab with specialist software for the use New Media students. The Clothworkers' Building North is in the heart of the campus. We are just 10-minutes walk from the centre of Leeds, a busy and vibrant city. Leeds is also a thriving hub for creative talent with many new media and communications agencies.