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Creative Media
Minor
Creative Media
創意媒體
Offering Academic Unit
School of Creative Media
Exclusive Majors
(Students who study the following majors are not allowed to choose this minor)
BA Creative Media
BAS New Media
BSc Creative Media
Note: The following curriculum information is subject to periodic review and changes.

Aims of Minor

The School of Creative Media offers both a practical training in digital media and a critical reflection upon the role of technology in mediating our understanding of the world. Our goal is to produce thinking digital media artists, designers, and technologists.

The Minor programme in Creative Media provides students both with a practical engagement in one or more of fields of creative media--animation, gaming, sound, photography and cinema, and new media--and with classes that examine the relationship between culture, society and new technologies.


Intended Learning Outcomes of Minor (MINILOs)

Upon successful completion of this Minor, students should be able to:

  1. Identify and read with understanding the social implications of digital materials that define our environment.
  2. Understand the methodologies deployed by the makers of creative media.
  3. Possess rudimentary operational understanding of planning, techniques and skills possessed by those professions working in the field. This will enable more efficient and effective interaction with such workers in future work environments.

Minor Requirements (15 credit units)Catalogue Term : Semester A 2024/25



1. Core Courses (3 credit units)
Course CodeCourse TitleCredit Units
SM1701New Media Art3

 2. Electives (12 credit units)

Any courses total in 12 credits from the following electives:

Art of Game and Play
Course CodeCourse TitleCredit UnitsRemarks
SM2259Game and Play Studies3
SM2260Interactive Narrative3
SM3120Game Level Design3Pre-requisite waiver to be granted by course leader on a case-by-case basis
SM3601Game Prototyping and Design3

Animation
Course CodeCourse TitleCredit Units
SM2228Understanding Animation3
SM2714Fundamentals of Animation3
SM3701Digital Composition3

Cinematic & Photography

Course CodeCourse TitleCredit UnitsRemarks
SM2274History of Cinema3
SM1013Introduction to Photography3
SM3739Documentary Photography3Pre-cursor waiver to be granted by course leader on a case-by-case basis

Critical Theory & Practices

Course CodeCourse TitleCredit Units
SM3711Arts Administration and Cultural Management3
SM3729Relational Aesthetics and Participatory Media3

New Media

Course CodeCourse TitleCredit UnitsRemarks
SM2289 Writing Digital Media3Pre-requisite waiver to be granted by course leader on a case-by-case basis
SM2712Perception, Cognition, Art, and Design3
SM3611New Media for Installation, Events and Performance3

Sound

Course CodeCourse TitleCredit Units
SM3130Sound Installation and Sound Spatialisation3

Other Courses
Course CodeCourse TitleCredit UnitsRemarks
SM1103AIntroduction to Media Computing3
SM1702Creative Media Studio I6
SM2105Narrative Strategies and Aesthetics of Time-based Media3
SM2702Interdisciplinary Practices in Art, Science and the Humanities3
SM2715Creative Coding3Pre-requisite waiver to be granted by course leader on a case-by-case basis

Additional Information

  1. Students must seek advance approval from their parent department before enrolling in the minor programme offered by the School of Creative Media (SCM).
  2. Students must fulfil the pre-requisite/pre-cursor as indicated, unless otherwise specified.
  3. Students must complete the Minor requirement before graduation in order to become eligible for the award of the Minor in Creative Media.
  4. All courses completed within the Minor curriculum, including failures, will be counted towards the calculation of CGPA for the Minor. Students must obtain a CGPA of 1.70 or above in order to qualify for the Minor award.
  5. Under the University Structure of 4-Year Undergraduate Degrees, the credit units earned to fulfil a minor requirement cannot be used towards meeting the requirement for another major and/or minor taken by the student.