Digital Arts University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Overview

Key facts

The Digital Arts offered at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg degree aims to give you an introduction into both the hardware and software environments. A key focus of the course is the development of a portfolio of both analogue and digital games with which you can approach industry. For example, one of the more interesting avenues of exploration within the course entails the development and prototyping of alternative game controllers, using the knowledge you’ve garnered from circuitry as well as your programming skills to build alternative ways to interact with games, further enhancing the nature of play and exploration.

The BEngSc (Digital Arts) is intended to produce graduates that can become specialist practitioners in the technological arena of software development within a game context. You will attend half of your courses in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering. Here you will do Physics, Mathematics, Electric Circuits, Software Development, and Electromagnetic Systems with Game Design as the core subject.

Once you’ve completed the BEngSc in Digital Arts, you may continue into the third year of the BSc(Eng) (Electrical) or (Information Engineering) option, or into the Honours course in Digital Arts.

Career Opportunities

• Animation

• Game Design

• Software Engineer

• Software Development