MSc/PgDip Digital Media: Audio Production
- Part-time study available
- International students can apply
- Based at MediaCityUK
Teaching and learning involves a mix of lectures and practical sound engineering work, involving individual and group learning, There is an emphasis on motivated students' self-study.
Assessment
Assessment involves a mixture of practical work, report writing and project work. By the end of the course students will have built up a substantial portfolio of audio, video and new media work.
Assessment is approximately divided across the course as follows:
- Practical work (30%)
- Report/Assignment (35%)
- Presentation (5%)
- Dissertation - that may entail practical elements (30%)
Staff Profile
Jos Hirst
Sound synthesis and audio production is taught by Jos Hirst. Previously, Jos worked as a live and sometimes studio sound engineer for 15 years, and then decided to find out about the 'hows and whys' of the equipment he was operating.
He first came to University of Salford in 1996 as an undergraduate, enrolling on the BSc (Hons) Audio Technology. He then studied for a PhD in the research area of spatial audio. More specifically, he investigated objective methods of assessing the spatial capabilities of surround sound systems as well as developing spatializing techniques for multichannel musical synthesis. He finally finished his PhD in 2006. You can have a look at his thesis here.