BA (Hons) Public Relations with Politics

Year 1

MED1055 Media Relations (20 credits)

MED1414 Hold the Front Page (20 credits)

MED1427 Foundations of PR and Client-Led Campaign (20 credits)

POL1001 Introduction to Political Concepts and Theory (20 credits)

POL1002 Introduction to Political Systems and Institutions (20 credits)

You will select one of the following modules:

MED1046 Academic, Professional and Research Skills (20 credits)

MED1057 Communicating Through Design (20 credits)

MED1428 PR - Past, Present, Future (20 credits)

Language modules in French, Spanish or Mandarin, delivered at the Edge Hill Language Centre, are available to study as an integral part of this degree. A single Language module can be studied instead of one of the optional modules above.

Year 2

MED2069 PR Campaigns (20 credits)

MED2070 Client Led Campaign (20 credits)

POL2001 Comparative European Politics (20 credits)

You will select three of the following modules:

HIS2020 Communism in Eastern and Central Europe After 1945 (20 credits)

MED2080 Psychology of Persuasion (20 credits)

MED2082 Creative Research Methods and Professional Ethics (20 credits)

MED2215 Analysing Audiences (20 credits)

MED2259 Media and PR in the Digital Age (20 credits)

MED2285 Writing for the Media (20 credits)

MED2289 Crisis Management (20 credits)

SPY2135 Broken Britain (20 credits)

If you studied a Language module in Year 1, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 2. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of one of the optional modules above.

Year 3

MED3246 Client-Led Campaign (20 credits)

POL3001 Strategic Political Communications (20 credits)

You will select one of the following modules:

CIS3111 E-Government and E-Democracy (20 credits)

HIS3021 Black Life and Black Protest in the United States Since 1945 (20 credits)

POL3003 Working in Politics (20 credits)

You will select a further 60 credits from the following modules:

MED3057 Event Management (20 credits)

MED3220 Work Placement (20 credits)

MED3225 Dissertation (40 credits)

MED3247 Industry Portfolio (20 credits)

SPY3111 Social, Cultural and Political Ideas (20 credits)

If you studied Language modules in Years 1 and 2, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 3. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of one of the optional 20 credit modules above.

Optional modules provide an element of choice within the programme curriculum. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by timetabling requirements.