Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Computing and Interactive Entertainment

In this digital era full of visual and social media, being able to communicate visually is very important. Animation art is a powerful visual medium and is often used to communicate through storytelling. Visual communication and storytelling cover the important principles of design, visual theories and narrative techniques and how they relate to effective visual communication.

This course introduces the art of visual storytelling and prepares students to write their creative story before translating the idea and text into moving images in animation. Students will be expected to write and re-write their story until it is ready to express it in different media platforms.

Students will learn and experience both media production first and then animation production later. It prepares students to use visual and audio language to communicate and express ideas in time-based medium.

The skills learned in media production can prepare students to learn animation and apply them to animated storytelling and production techniques. Aspects of cinematic aesthetics such as image design, visual development and lighting will be covered in this course.

Students will learn media management in the course. Interactive entertainment involves creative vision and above-the-line industry practice from proposal writing, fundraising and team-building.

Media management involves important daily operations in managing a creative team with different capacities. Both require knowledge and leadership skills at different levels.

This final semester course is intended for students to be equipped with these industry-related knowledge and know-how in their final year before entering the professional world.

This course aims to further expand and develop student's creative vision integrating sound design and visual effects to camera footage and computer-generated imagery. It will also integrate principles of sound communication, sound effects, image design and visual storytelling.

It equips students with the necessary technical know-how and theory to turn one's creative vision into make-believe or manufactured “reality” with professional quality.

This course consists of two parts. In the first part, students will learn the important theories that underpin the way humans interact with computer-based systems. In the second part, students will learn how to use disciplined approaches to (a) design usable and intuitive interfaces for computer-based systems, and (b) evaluate and compare different interface design with respect to their usability and intended user/business requirements.

This course aims to develop the students' capabilities in applying programming skills to develop serious games and creative applications. The course consists of three parts.

The course aims to provide students with a foundation in designing and developing applications for mobile devices. It enables students to understand the principle and learn skills to create and deploy mobile applications with a mobile programming platform.

Advisory Pre-requisites: Students should have completed most computing courses and should have a solid knowledge in Java.

The course aims to develop in learners the terminology, notations and understanding needed for effective communication with team members during software engineering activities. It also aims to equip learners with the skills to apply software engineering methods and tools in a variety of situation.

Advisory Pre-requisites: Students should have completed most foundation and middle level computing programming courses.

As a sequel to COMPS350F, This course aims to develop in learners the know-how of project management recognized as good practices in software development.

Advisory Pre-requisites: Students are expected to have completed at least two semester courses in computer programming and COMP S350F Software Engineering.

Java is one of the most popular languages in the IT professional world. The aim of this course is to provide students with sound foundation in software development using the object-oriented programming language Java.

The course will cover fundamental object-oriented programming concepts such as classes and objects, and the structure of text-based Java applications. Students will study how to analyze problems and apply object-oriented methodology in software development.

This course aims to provide students with more knowledge in Java programming as well as an introduction to user interface design. Students will study how to design computer user interface, and develop graphical-based computer programs using the Java programming language.

Students will also study how to analyse more difficult problems and apply object-oriented methodology in development.

This course aims to enable students to create maintainable software in Java to meet a great variety of computing requirements. The course covers more advanced concepts in object-oriented programming and also more advanced Java technologies for developing sophisticated applications. Through concepts such as reuse, abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism, students should be able to more capably handle higher problem complexity in their programming work.

Students will also study how to develop applications with multithreading, networking and security support in Java.

Advisory Pre-requisites: Students should have some background in Java.

This course aims to introduce students to the field of machine learning, and develop them to apply machine learning algorithms to real-world problems. It enables students to have a broad overview of different machine learning and deep learning algorithms with a focus of applying these algorithms into real-world problems through practical activities.

Advisory Pre-requisites: Students should have a solid background in computing.

This is a project course. Students will attempt a final year project which should provide an opportunity to integrate knowledge and skills acquired in the programme of study. Students will normally form a team to handle one project. Performance will be assessed both at the project level and the individual level.

After the course, students should be able to explain the relevant issues and latest development in the application domain related to his or her project area, to analyse and propose solutions based on interactive media and computing technologies for an identified problem. Students should also be able to implement the proposed solutions with advanced development tools and proper integration of technologies and creative artworks.