B.A. Media Studies and Entertainment Technology

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

New digital technologies bring about fundamental shifts in the way we produce, distribute and consume entertainment media. This degree seeks to combine practical digital media production skills with the sophisticated critical study of new media forms. Essentially, youll be developing creative and professional new media skills associated with the entertainment industry.

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Subjects

  • Media
  • Skills and Training
  • Production
  • Technology
  • Media Studies
  • Music
  • Options
  • Project
  • New Media

Course programme

Course Content Year one

The first year covers several central topics and begins your training in the skills and techniques you’ll be using throughout your course. You will be taught by specialist staff with strong research interests across a range of media.

Core units in this year include:

  • Advanced Media Research
  • Digital Filming and Technology
  • Introduction to Computer Graphics
  • Introduction to Media Studies
  • Media Study Skills
  • Sound for Moving Image
Year two

This year allows you to start to specialise in the areas that interest you most. Choose to focus on specific media forms, practise your production skills and spotlight on certain topics.

Core units from this year include:

  • Creative Industries Project Management
  • Screen Media

Options to choose from include:

  • Analysing Comic Books
  • Approaches to Popular Culture
  • Digital Photography
  • Managing and Making a Documentary
  • Media Networks: Exploring Digital Culture
  • Media, Culture and National Identity
  • Music Business Practice
  • Music: Practice, Performance and Research
  • Print Media
  • Professional Experience
  • Radio Production and Presentation Skills
  • Researching Genre
  • Social Issues in the Media
  • Sport and the Media
  • Student Enterprise
  • The Media and Propaganda
Year three

The final year offers you a broad range of options to choose from. Depending on your interests, you also have the choice between a dissertation, a special exercise or undertaking a creative technology project that boosts your professional production skills.

Options to choose from this year include:

  • Representing Science in the Media
  • Researching Animation
  • Studying Popular Music
  • TV Talk Shows
  • Cultures of Consumption
  • Games Research
  • Interdisciplinary Group Project
  • Documentary Film Making
  • Sound Application
  • Media Fan Cultures
  • News, War and Peace
  • Comedy Culture and Form
  • British TV Drama and Society

B.A. Media Studies and Entertainment Technology

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