Course Summary
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This is a one-year, full-time course designed to equip learners with the multidisciplinary technical and vocational skills required to excel in the fast-paced field of social media marketing. The curriculum is closely aligned with contemporary industry trends, placing a powerful emphasis on brand development, target audience engagement, and high-impact digital storytelling. Students undergo comprehensive training in audio and video production, commercial photography, advertising, and modern digital marketing strategies. A key feature of the program is its on-campus work experience, where students collaborate directly with College Management to build live promotional campaigns, gaining invaluable real-world experience, a robust professional portfolio, and employment references.
On successful completion of this course learners are awarded a 120 credit NFQ level 5 Major Award in Creative Media
Course Details
What will you study?
Progression to CAO Courses
Higher Education Links Scheme (HELS)
This course leads to a QQI Major Award, and provides progression opportunities to a number of Higher Education courses, including those in the CAO.
To view CAO courses to which any Major Award (including this one) provides a possible Progression route, click below:
| CAO with Any QQI Major Award |
| Old FETAC Code | New QQI Code |
| 5M5048 |
To calculate Points based on your QQI award results, use the PLC Points Calculator.
The Student - Career Interests
This course is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests:
Creative
Creative people are drawn to careers and activities that enable them to take responsibility for the design, layout or sensory impact of something (visual, auditory etc). They may be atrracted to the traditional artistic pursuits such as painting, sculpture, singing, the performing arts or music. Or they may show more interest in design activities, such as architecture, animation, or craft areas, such as pottery and ceramics.
Creative people use their personal understanding of people and the world they live in to guide their work. Creative people like to work in unstructured workplaces, enjoy taking risks and prefer a minimum of routine.
Further Research
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Career Progression
The skills that you learn on our QQI Level 6 course will enable you to seek employment/self-employment in the Multimedia and Web Development discipline and your end of year portfolio of course work also demonstrates excellent preparation for further studies in these areas.
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