B.A. Media, Journalism and Culture

Year One consists of the four compulsory modules below:

• History of Mass Communication and Culture
• Media Scholarship
• Understanding Journalism Studies
• Representations

Year Two modules are designed to develop and refine ideas and arguments introduced in Year One.

Year Two Core Modules

• Doing Media Research
• Advertising and the Consumer Society

Examples of Optional/Elective Modules

• Reporting Science, the Environment and Health
• Media and Democracy
• Yr Ystafell Newyddion
• Media Law
• Social Media Trends
• Global Journalism
• War, Politics and Propgaganda

You will build on the first two years, pursuing a wide range of more specialist and advanced areas of study.

You will have a choice of modules allowing you to specialise in year areas of interest. Each module is 20 credits where the dissertation is 40 credits.

Examples of Optional/Elective Modules

• Media Law
• Spin Unpsun: Public Relations and the News Media
• Sport and the Media
• Debating Quality TV
• Yr Ystafell Newyddion
• The Making and Shaping of News
• Media, Racism, Conflict
• The Mediation of Political Violence
• Popular Music and Identity
• 21st Century British Television: Industry, Form and Audiences
• Citizen Media
• The Creative and Cultural Industries
• Managing Media Communications
• World Cinema, History and Culture