Creative Broadcast & FilmProduction
This skills based programme offers students an exciting opportunity to explore the world of the broadcast media industry, covering a range of disciplines across film and TV production, visual effects, editing, radio, audio mixing, photography, as well as broadcast technologies across a range of new and traditional media platforms.
We offer our students a range of prospects for both academic and career progression in the broadcast, film, and creative media industries, as well as extensive hands on production work experience. If you have a story to tell, we will show you how.
Features of the programme:
• Industry led Production & Post Production Practices;
• Digital Photography & Cinematography Techniques;
• Creative Design for CGI, VFX & Digital Art Direction;
• Participate in the Limerick International Film Festival (Hosted by the Film Production programme);
• Work in our state of the art Millennium Theatre on a range of live events.
Creative Media & Design
The aim of the programme is to meet the demand for graduates with both visual and interactive design skills that can produce immersive digital media experiences. Graduates will be able to work in a range of roles and contexts across the Digital Media, Design and Technology sectors. Graduates will be equipped with knowledge and skills related to Interface & User Experience Design, Interaction Design, Visualisation (in both an interactive and non-interactive context), Augmented and Mixed Reality, Web Technologies and Motion Graphics.
The programme blends technology with visual and interactive design practices to produce unique graduates. The programme is heavily focused on the needs and requirements of the digital media sector. To this end, students are provided with comprehensive lectures, tutorials and workshops in creative, design and technological fields. Students also gain valuable work experience and opportunities to collaborate with external organisations and agencies by undertaking client-led external briefs.
Delivery focuses on foundational visual and interactive design principles, complemented with the development of technological skills. As the programme progresses, there is a greater emphasis on the creation of an overall immersive digital media experience. This is achieved through cross-modular projects that require students to be cognisant of both creative and technical requirements in the conception and execution of project briefs.
Data Analytics & CyberSecurity
Digital Animation Production
On this programme, students learn to design, create and animate for both 2D and 3D platforms such as TV, Film and Games. There is a focus on developing students’ core skills in the traditional disciplines of drawing, illustration and animation asset design with a strong emphasis on the principles of animation.
Building on this foundation, students continue to develop their creative voice while training in industry standard software, processes and technologies with the aim of bringing their ideas and concepts to life on screen.
Drug & Medicinal Product Analysis
This programme was developed with input from people working in the relevant industries. We aim to produce graduates who understand how medicines and healthcare products, including pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals, are manufactured and checked to make sure they are safe, effective, and high quality. Students who graduate from the programme are ready to work in one of Ireland’s most valuable industries.
This Honours Degree allows students to develop the analytical laboratory skills necessary to work in the highly regulated industries that manufacture medicines, medical devices, and healthcare products. It also offers students the chance to study quality control and management in those industries.
The programme takes a detailed look at every aspect of manufacture in Ireland’s most successful sector and develops the students’ skills in the areas most required to obtain good, well-paid jobs in the industry. There is a six-month work placement in Year 3 of the programme to provide valuable work experience.
Environmental Science & Climate
This programme equips graduates with the practical skills to apply environmental science knowledge in a broad range of sectors across the environmental themes of biodiversity, water and climate action. Graduates gain an understanding of sustainable development as the context for environmental protection work. This programme at TUS Thurles prepares students to help businesses, communities and the public sector respond actively to the challenges we face. Students learn about ecology and conservation of the natural environment as well as how to manage resources like waste and energy in business.
There is lots of practical lab work, field work, field trips and computer skills sessions. Subjects on personal development are also included – valuable skills for the work place. New approaches to balancing the needs of society and the economy with protection of the environment are investigated.
In Year 3, students deepen their scientific understanding of how the earth’s natural systems work by examining the topic of water in detail. Students develop skills in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping and in research. A Professional Development module prepares students for a work placement during the summer of third year.
In Year 4, students examine the complex topics of atmosphere and climate, complementing the work done in previous years on ecology, land and water. Skills in environmental monitoring, computer modelling and organisational management are developed. Positive responses for climate action such as renewable energy and sustainable building are examined. New approaches to achieving longterm sustainability are a key focus.
Forensic & Pharmaceutical Science
This programme is the first and most reputable of its kind in Ireland. Students achieve a detailed and understanding of the science underpinning the forensic, pharmaceutical and analytical fields. Students will gain exposure to, and experience in, the methodology and techniques at the forefront of these major scientific areas.
At TUS, we place an emphasis on “hands-on work” (approximately 50% of scheduled coursework), endowing our graduates with a highly desirable and much sought-after set of skills and expertise: experience in pharmaceutical and forensic science combined with a range of analytical techniques, which make graduates highly sought after by employers. Since the beginning of this programme, selected student(s) have been employed each year by the State Laboratory for their work placement.
Interactive Digital Media
Internet Systems Development
Create and design software for computers, internet, smartphones, tablets, and other devices. Examples of software include: Word, PowerPoint, Flight simulators, Bank ATMs, iTunes, Facebook, security encryption, online payment, VLC movie player, Games
Manage, store, retrieve, and analyse Big Data for multiple types of industries (e.g. Facebook data, YouTube data, Bank details, Flight information etc.)
Learn a variety of languages to help make websites, mobile phones, and computers easy to interact with, such as: Java, C#, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, SQL
Become an expert in computer programming, web development, testing, and mobile computing
Culinary Entrepreneurship
The aim of this course is to provide knowledge and expertise from a practical and theoretical perspective that will assist to equip food or culinary businesses with the strength to further grow, innovate and develop business operations to meet future demands.
The course provides an in-depth theoretical knowledge base, anchored in the culinary disciplines and supplemented by knowledge of the hospitality and wider food sector. The course provides for a high level of artistic abilities in the creation of innovative food products and food business concepts, with an entrepreneurial mindset.
Students will require €450 approx. for class materials, books, uniforms, safety shoes, etc in the first week of college.
