Communication & Multimedia Design course overview

Exploring disciplines

Your first year begins broadly and the emphasis is on discovering your talents and interests. In this programme, you discover a lot by yourself and consult with lecturers about what you want to learn. You work on challenges and real-life assignments, and get straight down to work with your project group, exploring different creative disciplines of multimedia communication, learning from others and working with a film studio, game studio, print agency and digital agency for web & app design and programming.

Design challenges

Develop your skills in design research, such as getting to know your target audience.

Subjects:

• Storytelling
• Photography
• Sound design
• Game design
• Graphic design
• Motion design
• Film & video
• Illustration
• Web/app design
• 3D Modelling

Study load: 20 contact hours, 20 self study hours per week | 60 ECTS per year

You take charge during your second, third and final year, choosing what design disciplines to explore and when.

Developing disciplines

Explore the creative disciplines you particularly want to develop, taking the knowledge you developed in the first year to the next level.

Communities

In this programme, you work independently and in multidisciplinary project teams with lecturers and fellow students on the learning competences Create, Communicate, Research, Organise and Learn.

In addition, you choose which of the different studios you want to work in and collaborate with students from different years on projects of your choice.

Study load: 20 contact hours, 20 self study hours per week | 60 ECTS
per year

Minor subject (study abroad)

Embark on an exciting internship journey

Apply your expertise in a dynamic setting by securing an internship
with an internationally focused company, either within the Netherlands or, preferably, on a global stage abroad. Gain valuable hands-on experience and broaden your horizons as you contribute to real-world projects in a diverse and enriching work environment.

60 ECTS per year

CMD specials

The Communication & Multimedia Design community organises
various activities and events for and by students, including:

• You Design the World (YDTW)
• Video nerds
• Incubators for entrepreneurship (students are given the opportunity to do business!)

Graduation project

To graduate from CMD, you decide what your graduation project
will be and whether you want to do your project for a company
or create your own project. Over a period of five months, you
develop a product in which you demonstrate how you think and
work. It’s a way of presenting your business identity. Your style,
your product, your portfolio, your future! The graduation phase
finishes with a presentation.

60 ECTS per year