Bachelor of Screen Arts

Massey University

Subject area

Audio Visual Studies

Qualification

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Entry requirements

A New Zealand Univeristy Entrance Qualification or equivalent .

About the course

What can I expect out of this qualification?

The Bachelor of Screen Arts aims to provide high-level professional education in its programme of study that equips graduates to operate in a range of roles in screen production industries with these five defining attributes: Creativity - Toi; Virtuosity - Mohio; Understanding - Matauranga; Autonomy - Mana; Connectedness - Whanaungatanga. This three-year qualification equips students with advanced technical skills across a range of disciplines, alongside focused and specialised professional development and skills in independent critical reflection and analysis. - awareness of the richness and variety of different views within creative media industries acknowledging their contribution to the cultural identity of Aotearoa New Zealand - broad, critical understanding of the discourse, professional practices and production processes of digital and interactive media, and their contexts - understanding of the relationship between creative media production and audiences, clients, markets, users, consumers and participants Values and Attitudes - Intellectual curiosity and adaptably, willing to embrace new ideas and accommodate risk and uncertainty - Goals for intellectual and/or professional development Skills - Exploratory and transformative thinking, analytical, evaluative and synthesising skills and iterative processes to generate ideas, proposals, and transfer them into creative media production outcomes - Critical reflection and evaluation of their own and others creative media production work - Application of investigative and applied research strategies in the development of ideas and concepts for creative media outputs - Critically informed competence in the management and operation of creative media production technologies, procedures and processes - Technical excellence, intellectual and conceptual rigour in cross-media forms of production