Esports (top-up)

This one-year top-up degree is designed to help you progress to a full Honours degree in Esports, particularly if you have already completed a relevant level 5 qualification such as an HND or foundation degree.

Esports in its nature is a phenomenon. You’ll join a vibrant community of gamers and industry professionals while developing advanced skills in event management, content creation and business strategy for the fast-growing esports industry. You’ll refine your specialist interests, work with industry level tools and environments, and develop a professional portfolio that reflects your chosen discipline within esports.

You’ll gain the practical experience, industry insight and specialist knowledge to operate at a professional level. Working with industry standard technology, tackling live briefs and completing a major independent project to reflect real world demands and showcase your unique strengths within the esports ecosystem.

By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to step confidently into your chosen discipline, whether you’re interested in event management, marketing, the production or business side of esports.

On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: BA (Hons) Esports

Analytics for Industry; Corporate Social Responsibility; Global Esports; Emerging Media & Technologies; Final Year Project

Reflecting the diverse needs of learners and the skills required for effective development, we use a wide range of assessment methods. These are carefully designed and monitored to enable students to demonstrate the learning outcomes for each module and also to allow elements of choice and co-creation (e.g., Multidisciplinary Teamwork assessments, personalisation of discipline in Event Development Workflows & personalised Final Year Project assessments). Methods range from traditional essays and exams to video essays, live industry briefs, pitching to industry, literature reviews, reflective writing, strategy reports and research projects as well as content creation and practical output.. All modules have formative assessment opportunities for a midway feedback and development loop, and we ensure that students undertake a variety of assessment methods at each level and that they are both interesting and challenging and develop skills valued by employers as well as bring deeper meaning to the learners by understanding that work is being completed for more than just completing milestones.