Creative Computing with Professional Placement

Where wires cross, ideas spark.

Creative Computing is for curious minds who view technology as a limitless canvas. At Falmouth University, you’ll experiment with technology to build digital experiences that excite audiences in new ways. Discover how computation can reimagine art, design and storytelling, whilst asking the big questions about how technology is shaping our culture and society.

Collaboration is at the heart of the course. You will work across creative disciplines to explore creative coding, interactive systems, digital storytelling and immersive media, gaining hands-on experience with web technologies, artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual reality and augmented reality environments alongside physical computing.

Creative Computing graduates step into the world as innovators: experimental, ethically aware, and confident at crossing disciplinary boundaries. As a creative technologist, you'll be able to pursue digital storytelling, virtual production, immersive experiences, or interactive art. You’ll also be able to explore opportunities in games, apps, shows, media, festivals, exhibitions, visual effects and the wider creative technology sector.

Why study this course at Falmouth?
Creative: Turn ideas into real, interactive experiences that connect with audiences
Future-facing: Learn to think critically and work creatively with emerging technologies such as AI and XR
Flexible: Choose between a technically-focused BSc or an artistically-led BA, specialising through pathways in theatre, screen, or heritage to apply your skills to live performance, film and television, or cultural experiences
Ethically-aware: Explore how technology shapes culture, identity and the environment to design, make and critique digital work to be imaginative, inclusive and sustainable
Disruptive: Explore, experiment, prototype and play in a thriving creative environment where code, design and imagination collide to create the unexpected
Beginner-friendly: Gain confidence with coding, experiment with new ideas and grow your creative voice along the way
Connected: Collaborate with students from courses such as games, theatre, film, music, and performance to discover how creative ideas grow stronger through shared perspectives
Pioneering: Graduate as a confident maker, designer, and thinker, ready to shape creative projects in digital storytelling, virtual production, immersive experiences and beyond

At Falmouth, Creative Computing is about curiosity, craft and care. It’s the art of experimentation: shaping technology with imagination and social responsibility. You’ll explore how digital systems, materials and the physical world can interact in ways that are expressive, thoughtful and sustainable. Through prototyping, questioning and refinement, you’ll approach digital making as a craft that balances creativity with care for people and the planet.

You can choose to study this Creative Computing degree as either a BSc(Hons) or a BA(Hons). Both the BSc and BA share a common first year, giving you a solid underpinning in computing and development, while giving you room to respond creatively to industry-style briefs. From your second year onwards, you will start to broaden your expertise across multiple disciplines, with modules that most suit your personal talent and ambitions.

On BSc(Hons) Creative Computing, you will study additional modules that enhance your mathematics and data analysis skills, while remaining rooted in creative applications.

Year One:
In your first year, everyone studies the same set of modules, learning together through shared projects and collaborative making. Designed for beginners, this stage builds your foundation in coding, data, digital creativity and physical computing through hands-on experimentation and teamwork.

You will learn by making, exploring how technology can be expressive, sustainable and responsible, while developing the confidence and curiosity to continue your creative computing journey.

Modules:
Principles of Computing
Digital Creativity
Development Foundations
Data Fundamentals
Individual Programming Project
Multidisciplinary Teamwork

Year Two:
Year two is where you start to really specialise as a creative developer and solution designer. You’ll deepen your creative and technical practice through hands-on experimentation and interdisciplinary projects. You’ll explore ways to bring digital systems, interactive experiences and physical computing to life, combining making, coding and design to create engaging and responsive work.

You’ll also develop critical understanding of how technology shapes society and culture, considering ethical, inclusive and sustainable approaches to design. Across the stage, you’ll strengthen your analytical and research skills, integrate theory with practice and collaborate with others, preparing you for substantial projects in your final year. You’ll additionally sharpen your knowledge of computational mathematics and cybersecurity.

Modules:
Immersive & Participatory Performance
Computational Mathematics
Digital Prototyping
Responsible AI: Ethics and Society
Immersive and Interactive Audio
Animatronics

Year Three:
You’ll be responsible for finding your own placement, with support from the Employability team.

You’ll spend time working in a professional context, as part of a business or organisation. This can be in one role, or up to three, and must be for a minimum of 24 weeks.

You’ll develop a portfolio of work that includes critical self-reflection on what has been learned from the experience. You’ll be required to evidence your experiences, the skills you’ve learned and your professional growth.

Year Four:
In your final year, you’ll experiment with storytelling, interactivity and digital systems to craft engaging experiences. You’ll then take your ideas into Digital Innovation and the Major Collaboration modules. Working in multi-skilled teams, you’ll plan, design and develop a substantial project with real-world impact, exploring opportunities for employment, freelancing, or entrepreneurial ventures. You’ll focus on technical research, quantitative analysis, and creating a novel computing artefact, culminating in a dissertation.

Modules
Digital Innovation
Major Collaboration
Experience Design
Research & Development: Proposal
Research & Development: Dissertation

As part of our process of continuous improvement, we routinely review course content to ensure that all our students benefit from a high-quality and rewarding academic experience. As such, there may be some changes made to your course which are not immediately reflected in the content displayed on our website. During your course, module content may be updated or optional modules withdrawn in order to maintain the best academic experience. Any students affected will be informed of any changes directly.

100% of your assessment will be coursework, computing projects or dissertations. There are no exams on this course.

A portfolio of personal and group project work is developed over the course of the degree to boost your employability, and this is also assessed during through your Major Collaboration project in your final year.