To this end, there is a need for ‘hybridisation’ which refers to combination of knowledge and skill-sets in coding, data science, AI and IOT with the traditional professional disciplines. As the Creative Industry has become one of the fastest growing industries in the last couple of years, Malaysia is keen on further accelerating the creative development segment and expanding the massive pool of talents in this new marketplace. Therefore, it is imperative for students to be well prepared to anticipate and adapt to the future technologies especially in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and IoT enabled technology applications. “We are currently in the early stages of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR4.0). Sales of digital manga volumes excluding magazines have jumped 27.1% to USD1.3 billion in 2018. With the highest consumption now on digital devices, fans have now access to countless manga titles as well as western comic titles. For decades, Japanese publishers have been churning out volumes of comic strips known as manga with themes adapted to particular age groups and gender their printing runs into the millions. However, technology is changing the face of entertainment in certain areas, such as comics and manga. The comic book industry in Malaysia is worth about RM1.5 billion a year, with over one third of 500 publishing houses active. Today there are approximately 11,000 professionals in Malaysia’s creative content and technology industry. The creative industry is expected to provide 9.3 million jobs and contribute RM33 billion to Malaysia’s GDP by 2020. Hiew Pang Leang, KDU University College Vice Chancellor. We are very proud to be the first university college to launch the Diploma in Sequential programme, which is the first-of-its-kind to be offered in the whole of Asia”, stated Professor Dr. “The Diploma in Sequential Art collaboration was initiated to cultivate visual artists and story-tellers with a high work standard synonymous with the Japanese culture, along with flair for localised Malaysian content and to address the growing need for talents in the creative content industry. Sequential Art is an art form that uses images and content deployed in a specific order for graphic storytelling or conveying its messages, such as comic books, graphic novels, cartoons and Manga. ![]() The Diploma in Sequential Arts Programme is the result of a unique Industry-Academic collaboration between KDU and KCA that was sealed in an MoU signing ceremony held on 9th May 2017, between KDU’s Vice Chancellor Professor Dr. The launch was officiated by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI Malaysia) Trade Deputy Secretary General, Dato' Sri Norazman Ayob and KDU’s Vice Chancellor, Prof Hiew Pang Leang witnessed by representatives from InvestKL an investment promotion agency under the MITI Malaysia. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.SHAH ALAM, 18th April 2019 - KDU University College (KDU) and Kadokawa Contents Academy (KCA) today officially launched their collaborative brainchild- the Diploma in Sequential Arts Programme at KDU’s Glenmarie campus. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. ![]() We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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