Explore and document your world as you learn the skills to become an animation production artist. You will develop creative and technical expertise, as well as the conceptual and cultural knowledge to be an informed and confident contributor to the animated art form. 

Learn the techniques and skills of the animated art form, including character, movement, background, design, storyboarding, layout, scripting, and animation principles, using both traditional and digital media

Explore how new technologies and methodologies are synthetising into photographic practice and their impact on contemporary approaches to image making. Learn and explore multiple avenues of inquiry that incorporate traditional documentary practice, digital image making, experimental film and software-based work. Develop best practice and skill sets for storytelling through the lens.

Apply and develop your creativity in the thriving and dynamic area of computing. Gain the hands-on skills and knowledge to create solutions for today’s fast-paced world. Learn core computing skills such as programming, app development and databases, while keeping a focus on the design of the technology interaction with the user.

A mix of theory and practice, this programme explores the development of media and its evolution in the digital age. You will develop your creative media production skills in camera, sound, editing and writing; your digital skills in photoshop, illustrator and adobe programmes; and your critical thinking in Film Studies, Media Studies, Journalism and Cultural Theory modules. 

Learn from some of the finest industry practitioners in the contemporary music scene. This unique programme has some of Ireland’s leading commercial recording studios and performance spaces as teaching facilities.

Digital marketing is critical to the evolving world of technologies, platforms, consumer dynamics, businesses and brands. This three year degree course combines traditional marketing theory, practice and digital tools. You will learn how businesses can reach, connect and promote their products to a larger audience using a diverse range of digital marketing tools and strategies.

This course is for those who want to tell stories and express themselves through the medium of filmmaking. Our BA (Hons) Film is dedicated to teaching practice-based film making. Throughout the four years you will develop and create drama, documentary and experimental film. You will write scripts, shoot films, and submerge yourselves in cinema culture and tradition. You will work both individually and in teams to create powerful films that develop your own creative voice.

This course is for students who want to tell stories and express themselves through drama, comedy, non-fiction and formatted genres. Immerse yourself in the multi-disciplinary world of modern television content creation, from traditional linear TV to multi-platform content. Although the ways in which consume, shape and interact with the medium are changing, the core skills of good storytelling remain.

Based in the National Film School, this is the only course in Ireland to bring together set designers, costume designers, character designers, model makers and digital artists, all learning highly specialised skills in a fully professional, collaborative context. Explore the worlds of character, costume, set, model making, games/VFX design for careers in film, theatre, television, entertainment and the digital narrative arts.

This unique course is the first 3D animation undergraduate degree in Ireland. It will allow you to understand the highly artistic and technical practices that are involved in creating characters, stories and worlds using advanced digital technologies.

Learn both advanced technical and creative skills to understand 3D animation pipelines, including character, design, world building, animation principles, lighting, rendering along with other specialised areas.

This course is running in partnership with Creative Futures Academy (CFA).

This degree equips graduates for the changing business world and is designed to develop an agile set of future-facing responsive skills. Specifically, graduates will act as the link/bridge between the technology developers and clients and users.

This course will create graduates who understand the digital technology underpinning business and have the communication skills and are business savvy to move seamlessly between key stakeholders in digital businesses.

Students in this course will analyse literature including poetry, drama, and fiction, alongside multiple forms of visual and popular culture. By doing so, they will engage with historical and contemporary traditions of writing, media, and critical thought.

This course has been designed with the unique needs of the contemporary games industry in mind. It offers a creative pathway, enabling and enhancing the production and practice of game design and development. It also provides opportunities for an exciting and sustainable career both at home in Ireland’s dynamic and rapidly-evolving Creative Industries and internationally.

This innovative three-year European Film degree, delivered across multiple European locations with our FilmEU partners, positions you at the forefront of the global screen arts industry. You’ll develop a blend of traditional filmmaking techniques alongside modern innovations and specialisations.

As this is a joint international programme, you will study across multiple partner institutions during the three years, but your chosen CAO code determines where you begin your first year.

This innovative three-year European Film degree, delivered across multiple European locations with our FilmEU partners, positions you at the forefront of the global screen arts industry. You’ll develop a blend of traditional filmmaking techniques alongside modern innovations and specialisations.

As this is a joint international programme, you will study across multiple partner institutions during the three years, but your chosen CAO code determines where you begin your first year.

This innovative three-year European Film degree, delivered across multiple European locations with our FilmEU partners, positions you at the forefront of the global screen arts industry. You’ll develop a blend of traditional filmmaking techniques alongside modern innovations and specialisations.

As this is a joint international programme, you will study across multiple partner institutions during the three years, but your chosen CAO code determines where you begin your first year.

This innovative three-year European Film degree, delivered across multiple European locations with our FilmEU partners, positions you at the forefront of the global screen arts industry. You’ll develop a blend of traditional filmmaking techniques alongside modern innovations and specialisations.

As this is a joint international programme, you will study across multiple partner institutions during the three years, but your chosen CAO code determines where you begin your first year.

This Film Studies degree is for people who want to think critically about film and write it – combining academic depth with practical creativity and opening a pathway to professional screenwriting.

This innovative degree explores how psychological principles can address pressing global challenges. Students gain interdisciplinary skills to understand and influence human behaviour, promoting sustainability, social justice, and well-being through research, community engagement, and real-world applications.

This hands-on programme is ideal for creative practitioners looking to position their work within a well-informed digital, technological, and ecological context.  The Professional Diploma in Digital making is suitable for all Art & Design graduates, those who work in Art Departments of Film and Theatre or anyone with a need to know more about digital making.

Why should I do this course?

• Passionate about media, audio and journalism.
• You have an interest in digital marketing and social media.
• You would like to embark in a brand new career.
• You already work in marketing and would like to up-skill.

UCD Architecture is at the forefront of architectural and urban design, both in Ireland and internationally. Our degree attracts a diverse cross section of talents and approaches – from the technically minded to the artistically gifted; from the socially conscious to the natural communicators and leaders. All have the capacity to become successful and productive graduates in architecture.

There are two main elements to the Architecture course – project work (architectural design, drawing and model making) and the lecture programmes (historical and theoretical material). Project work is taught in the architecture design studios through a combination of lectures, individual tuition, field trips, group tutorials, large reviews and exhibitions

The design studio is central to Landscape Architecture. You’ll spend most of your time in the studio, pursuing individual and small group project work. You’ll learn by doing design projects that allow you to develop creative skills and apply knowledge taught through lectures, seminars, drawing classes, field trips, reviews, readings, individual and group tutorials. In your third year you will also gain professional experience interning in a landscape related company / institution.

This degree integrates an interdisciplinary approach that will deepen and broaden your understanding of environmental, social and economic issues, and sets these in a practical policy context. On entering first year, you will be introduced to a host of new ideas and concepts. Building your knowledge and skills throughout the first year of the course, you will progressively gain insight into the complexity of our taken-for-granted world and how we can constructively and sustainably respond to the challenges we face. A small class size and the interactive learning environment ensures an enjoyable experience that stimulates creativity and ownership of your career path.

At UCD, we place considerable emphasis on the mastery of analytical skills and the use of quantitative methods. Study is based on solid mathematical, scientific and engineering principles. Essentially, these are the fundamentals of engineering and they will enable you to navigate successfully through the challenges you will face in your future career. We work with industry to ensure that our programmes produce graduates who are highly skilled and trained to address the problems that organisations and society face.