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Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after you've started your course.

Our Creative Computing with Foundation Year degree course will help you fulfil your dream of doing something creative with computing.

- Get a flexible grounding in creative computing to cement your interests, learning programming skills in diverse creative fields- Use innovative industry-standard equipment and facilities during your studies – some of which are only available at Portsmouth- Be taught by subject specialists from various areas of creative technology, including music engineering, computer games programming and internet architecture

Graduate areasAreas you could work in include:- Film/TV special effects and post-production- Visual interface design- Computer graphics design- Video game development- Music production- Multimedia systems analysis- Mobile app development- Web development- Computer music/sound engineering- Interface design- Database managementGraduate rolesYou could work in a variety of design, development and administrative roles, including:- Visual interface designer- Computer graphics designer- Video game developer- Multimedia systems analyst- Mobile app developer- Web developer- Sound engineer- Interface designer- Database manager