Facilities

The two Schools which comprise the College of Arts & Social Sciences boast many state-of-the-art and industry-leading facilities:

School of Arts & Media

Students studying Art and Design courses benefit from a host of industry standard facilities, including photographic studios and dark room, fine art print studio, 3D polymer jet printers, Rapid Prototyping CNC milling machines and extensive fashion and garment construction rooms.

The University also has a facility at MediaCityUK, part of the £500m development which also houses six BBC departments including BBC Breakfast, Sport and Children’s, together with hundreds of independent creative arts and digital media companies.

Students undertaking courses in Media, Music or Performance will enjoy exceptional opportunities to work at MediaCityUK alongside industry leading media organisations at the cutting edge of TV and radio, journalism, animation and other digital media. You will have access to the very latest industry specified equipment, studios and laboratories. Our production suites and digital infrastructure have been informed and specified by industry and future-proofed for emerging creative technologies.

Our MediaCityUK building consists of four floors housing HDTV and radio broadcast studios, post-production suites, meeting rooms with video conferencing and more. Our high-tech Digital Performance Laboratory is unrivalled by any other higher education institution in the UK.

School of Humanities, Languages & Social Sciences

Students studying subjects in Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences enjoy access to industry-leading technologies, including our conference interpreting suite and audio-visual facilities.

We are proud to host the Language Resource Centre, incorporating the Andrew Riddell Conference Interpreting Suite which is able to host fifteen delegates and interpreters in up to five languages, accommodated in five booths built to the standards of the International Association for Conference Interpreters. The Suite can also be used as a ten-position language lab for training purposes.

There are individual televisions with video cassette recorders and DVD players. Recordings of English, French, German, Italian and Spanish news programmes are made every evening and shelved in the Reading Area.

Audio cassette booths are available for self-access listening. There are computer suites with printing and scanning facilities.