Media (Joint Honours) BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Leicester

£ 7,909.67 VAT inc.

*Indicative price

Original amount in EUR:

9,250 €

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Leicester

  • Duration

    3 Years

Established more than 20 years ago, this dynamic course has a reputation for applied research and outstanding teaching. You can tailor your learning by choosing from theoretical study options as well as creative and professional modules and will be supported throughout by a friendly teaching team of expert academics and industry professionals. You will not only be able to gain in-depth understanding of the media environment and its employment opportunities, but you’ll also have the opportunity to explore new dimensions of theory.

Your first year focuses on core concepts in media and communication and examines the notion of media cultures and everyday life. In your second and third years you can choose from a wide range of professional, academic and creative pathways in line with your interests and ambitions to create a degree that is both fascinating and relevant to your aspirations.

Modules range from Examining the Television Industry, Considering the Role of Gender and Identity in the Media, Broadcast Journalism, Sports Journalism, Audiences and Fandom, and Political Communication, through to Public Relations and Design and Production, which explores core theories and skills for graphic and web design. As this is a joint honours degree, you will study a mixture of modules from both of your chosen subjects, broadening the career options open to you.

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Leicester (Leicestershire)
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The Gateway, LE1 9BH

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About this course

Our Media graduates have gone on to work in a diverse range of fields such as journalism, PR, media production, marketing and as editors at a variety of organisations, from leading agencies such as Brunswick Group, jmm PR and AKQA, to Mentorn Media, Independent New Media, Yours Magazine and Universal Pictures.

Studying this diverse subject can provide a springboard for a career in the media industries, but it also opens up many other options. Many of our students opt for careers that are not directly related to the media, whether that's teaching, social work, the police service or retail management. The underlying research, critical thinking and communication skills embedded in the programme enable students to pursue a whole host of non-media specific career opportunities too.

Normally 104 UCAS points from at least two A-levels or equivalent or
BTEC National Diploma/ Extended Diploma at DMM or
Pass in the QAA accredited Access to HE. English GCSE required as a separate qualification as equivalency is not accepted within the Access qualification. We will normally require students to have had a break from full-time education before undertaking the Access course

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Subjects

  • Project
  • Global
  • Exhibition
  • Broadcasting
  • Teaching
  • Politics
  • IT
  • Drama
  • Theatre
  • Public Relations
  • Design
  • Radio
  • Cinema
  • International
  • University
  • Public
  • Technology
  • Industry
  • Joint
  • Communication Training
  • Broadcast
  • Media
  • Skills and Training
  • Production
  • New Media

Course programme

First year

  • Core Concepts in Media and Communication – introduces key theoretical models of analysis as well as the social/cultural contexts in which contemporary media operate and exert influence
  • Media Cultures and Everyday Life – examines the notion of ‘culture’, a range of mediatised practices, cultural institutions and media/cultural industries

Second year

  • Researching Media and Communication – explores the main research and analytic traditions in media and cultural studies • Media Discourse – investigates the ways that media texts function within contemporary culture
  • Media, Gender and Identity – considers the role the media plays in our understanding of ourselves and others as individuals and as social beings
  • Television Studies – examines the television industry, including the relationship between television schedules and the programmes that fill them
  • Journalism 1 – introduces you to skills and competencies used by journalists and equips you with a basic knowledge of journalism law and key theoretical issues
  • Political Communication – investigates the relationship between politics and the media and introduces the key components of the political communication system
  • Public Relations 1 – introduces you to different types of public relations, the industry structures, and the tools used by practitioners to engage with audiences
  • New Media 1: Design and Production – explores core theories and skills for graphic design and web design and development

Third year

You will select a combination of modules from:

  • Dissertation – allows you to specialise in an extended area of study for the whole year and produce a detailed written study about a media issue or work on your own individual film project
  • Global Advertising Practices – looks at the social, cultural, historical and institutional contexts in which advertisements are produced and consumed
  • Writing for the Screen – offers you the opportunity to receive professional practical guidance from an industry practitioner on techniques of creative scriptwriting for television and film
  • New Media 2: Creative Project– enables you to extend your understanding of the technologies and techniques involved in new media production
  • Public Relations 2 – explores key academic debates and issues in public relations from a global perspective and helps you learn the skills required to secure a first public relations role
  • Broadcast Journalism – this optional module allows you to explore and develop your broadcasting skills and involves real-world broadcasting on the university's Demon Media facilities
  • Sports Journalism – this module enables you to develop the skills required to be a sports journalist
  • Identities – considers the production and representation of ‘identities’ across a range of media platforms – from those produced by large corporations to those created with a DIY ethos
  • Audiences and Fandom – looks at audiences across different genres and media
  • Paranormal Media – applies a range of existing, key debates and methodologies to the growing popular genre of Paranormal Media
  • Cybernetic Media – explores the importance of cybernetics for understanding key contemporary concepts such as communication, information, feedback and networks
  • Film Exhibition and Consumption – introduces students to the study of film exhibition, distribution and consumption with a focus on changing technologies
  • Sport and the Media – examines the interdependent relationship between sport and the media focusing on political economy, identity formation and the role of audiences in the communication process.
Teaching and assessments

The course is taught by established academics and creative industry practitioners.

You will be taught through a series of one or two-hour lectures seminars, screenings and two-hour tutor supported workshops. There are also regular visiting lecturers from both industry and academic research fields.

Your precise timetable will depend on the optional modules you choose to take, however, you will normally attend around 12–16 hours of timetabled taught sessions (lectures and tutorials) each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 24 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research. Assessed work includes essays, analytical portfolios, scripts, news articles, online work, mini research tasks, presentations and practical projects.

Academic expertise

Creative and professional options are taught by experienced former and current practitioners from the fields of public relations, web development, journalism and lobbying. All have excellent industry contacts and are keen to help students with their career ambitions.

Recent staff publications include Dr Paul Smith’s The Politics of Television Policy: The Introduction of Digital Television in Great Britain, Dr Helen Wood’s Talking with Television, Professor Tim O’ Sullivan’s The Cinema of Basil Dearden and Michael Relph (with Alan Burton) and Dr Stuart Price’s Brute Reality: Power, Discourse, and the Mediation of War, Margaret Montgomerie’s Screen Fictions and Discourses of Disability: Dodgy Discourse and the Moral Low Ground Continuum and Dr Scott Davidson’s Going Grey: The Mediation of Politics in an Ageing Society.

All staff are active researchers and recent articles in academic journals include Simon Mills ‘Cultural Anxiety 2.0’ in Media, Culture and Society (with Dave Everitt) and Andrew Tolson’s co-authored article ‘Belligerent Broadcasting and Makeover Television: Professional Incivility in Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares’ in the International Journal of Cultural Studies.

Additional information

UCAS course code: 

Media and Drama: PWH4 
English Language and Media: QP33 
Film Studies and Media: P390 
Journalism and Media: PPH5


Media (Joint Honours) BA (Hons)

£ 7,909.67 VAT inc.

*Indicative price

Original amount in EUR:

9,250 €