With the increasing spread of digital tools and communication channels, the question of how to design them is becoming more and more important. The CAS Digital Literacy imparts knowledge, competences and skills that enable the design of diverse digital communication channels. Courses on Creative Coding, UX/UI, Immersive Environments, AI/Deep Learning, Digital Participation, Video Documentation and Moving Graphics provide an up-to-date insight into the applied practice and theoretical reflection of digital design in this CAS.
Key data
Degree
CAS FHNW Certificate of Advanced Studies
ECTS points
15 ECTS
Next start
after successfully participating in at least 5 weeks of either the Summer or Winter Workshops of HGK FHNW
Upon prior agreement, attendance at five one-week workshop modules with 2 ECTS credits each may be credited towards the CAS. This will count as 10 of the 15 credit points required for the CAS.
Combine your personal CAS continued-education studies based on our currently available workshop modules.
At the end of the CAS course, students will complete an individual, six-months final module with an integrated certificate thesis counting as 5 ECTS credits. This final module will support participants in individual design projects within their own creative and work contexts. The final module with its integrated certificate thesis includes 5 individual appointments of 90 minutes each and 100 hours of independent work for the certificate thesis.
Participants will gain experiences navigating analogue and digital communication channels, deepen their individual design processes and expand their visual design vocabulary; they will gain more experience navigating digital media, images, typography and research questions; they will acquire the skills and abilities needed to competently handle a variety of communications strategies, delve into current visual communication discourses and learn how to work with the latest digital design tools.
This CAS is intended for people who have a previous design education. For participants with professional experience, it can serve as a source of inspiration or as a way to bring your technical knowledge up to date, to push forward your own creative development or to expand your own portfolio.
Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE)
Through digital media and the democratisation of communication channels that goes hand in hand with it, the critical handling of their visual and interaction-based design has become decisively more important, because the social relevance of information and communication has thus fundamentally changed.
Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel Institut Digitale Kommunikations-Umgebungen IDCE Freilager-Platz 1 CH-4002 Basel
room D 5.03
Institute Digital Communication Environments IDCE
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern SwitzerlandBasel Academy of Art and Design,
Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE)
High-rise: D 5.03Freilager-Platz 1CH - 4142 Münchenstein near Basel