B.A. Media Studies with English Literature (Hons)

• Introduction to Research Methods
• Qualitative Field Methods
• Media Communication and Society
• Media in the 21st Century

• Interdisciplinary research

• History of English Literature I
• History of English Literature II
• Shakespeare

Compulsory modules:

• Analysing Media
• Media, Power and Control

plus 30 credits from:

• Migration and the Politics of Identity
• Visual Culture
• TV Entertainment
• Internet and Society
• Sociology of the Arts
• Sociology of Gender
• Crime and Media

• Enhancing interdisciplinary skills

• Constructing the Self
• Radical Subjectivities

Plus 15 credits from:

• Contemporary Literature: Gender and Sexuality
• Contemporary Literature: Post-colonial Fictions

Professional Training placement year, taken as a professional work placement and / or period of study abroad. Your activities during this period will be relevant to your Major subject (unless otherwise stated).

• Personal and Professional Development
• Evaluation of Placement Learning
• Transfer of Placement Learning

Compulsory modules:

• Dissertation

Plus 30 credits from:

• Cultures of Race and Racism
• Media, Gender and Sexuality
• Cultural Organisations and Industries
• Hate Crime
• Popular Music and Society
• Understanding Youth Culture

Optional modules:

• Tragedies of Blood
• The Theatre and the Novel
• Language Diversity
• Writing on the Metropolis
• Travel, Landscape & Identity in 20th-century Fiction
• Postmodernism and Beyond: The Word and the World
• Gothic to Goth
• Creative Writing and Professional Practice I
• Creative Writing and Professional Practice II

You'll find your lectures and tutorials extremely stimulating, but a Surrey degree is so much more than just your classroom learning.

The information below details some of the extra opportunities and advantages of becoming a Surrey student. Naturally, many of these will be defined by your choice of Major (such as where you spend your Professional Training placement), but don't forget that your Minor will also add a valuable dimension to your Surrey experience.

Our degree programme prepares you for the wide range of careers in business, government or third-sector organisations that demand the ability to analyse complex issues and reach sound conclusions. You will gain an understanding of media and related industries, which provides you with valuable grounding if you wish to move towards media, research, PR or marketing-related careers.

The Major/Minor degrees provide the knowledge base, analytical capacity and skills to develop professional media careers, from film and television production, journalism, broadcasting management and arts administration to advertising, event management and public relations. At the same time, our programme will equip you with essential transferable skills that are applicable in many careers beyond media and communication.

Having a Media Studies Major/Minor degree from Surrey therefore also opens up possibilities for careers outside the media sector, such as management, teaching, research and a range of governmental, non-governmental and commercial roles.