Media Studies and English BA (Hons)

Bangor University

Bachelor's degree

In Bangor

£ 11,750 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Bangor (Wales)

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    September

This exciting course course is jointly run by the School of English and the School of Creative Studies and Media. It is aimed at students who want to study English and combine it with Media Studies in order to equip themselves better for a career in these highly competitive professional fields. Media Studies includes: television and radio, film and video, software and computer games, design, professional writing, journalism and advertising. Skills and techniques learnt during the study and writing of texts lie at the core of many of the key areas in these industries. This course course will equip you with a solid grounding in the technical and practical skills required to make you a sought after professional in these fields.

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Location

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Bangor (Gwynedd)
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LL57 2DG

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

About this course


The course aims to enable understudies to: Understand the cultural and historical concepts associated with the Victorian period.

Understand the range and variety of genres employed by authors during this period.

Apply appropriate literary and contextual theories to the study of individual authors and texts.

Analyse images, narratives, and other aspects of Victorian texts.

Select, digest and organise material and produce a consistent and coherent argument, presented in essay form both to a deadline and under exam conditions.


Creative Studies and Media courses have seen graduates involved in both academe and in industry, including work in:

Creative Writing, Professional Writing and Publishing;
Performance and the Theatre, both on and behind the stage;
Print and/or Broadcast Journalism;
Actors, presenters and in television programme production;
Advertising and the Marketing industries;
Radio, as presenters, as well as in programme production;
Digital, Web and New Media production;
Multi media industries.

300 280 points
If you do not have the qualifications above contact the admissions tutor.

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Subjects

  • IT
  • English
  • Drama
  • Media Studies
  • Radio
  • Cinema
  • School
  • Writing
  • Media
  • IT Development
  • Skills and Training
  • Production
  • Media Production
  • Digital Communication
  • Introduction to Journalism
  • Media Studies and English
  • Introduction to New Media
  • Introduction to Film History
  • Essentials of Media Production
  • Television Comedy
  • American Television Culture
  • Introduction to European Cinema

Course programme

What will you study on this course? A total of 120 credits must be taken in each year. Modules are as follows: Media Studies Year 1 60 credits from: Television and Radio: Structure and Genre (20) (core) Essentials of Media Production (20) IT and Digital Communication (20) Language of Film (20) Introduction to New Media (20) Introduction to Journalism (20) Introduction to Film History (20) Essentials of Media Production (20) Television Comedy (20) American Television Culture (20) Publishing Past and Present (20) Media and Popular Music Culture (10) Introduction to European Cinema (10) Saints, Geniuses, Stars (20) Animation from Mickey to Manga (20) Women on Film (20) Year 2 60 credits from: Standard Media Production (20) Games and Virtual Environments (20) Marketing Creativity (20) Multimedia (20) Documentary and Drama (20) Film Theory/Film Culture (20) Writing for Film and the Media (20) Development of Journalism (20) British Publishing: Uncovered (20) French Film 1895 1950 (20) Bodily Cultures (20) Essential Film Production (20) World Cinema (20) Hollywood (20) Year 3 60 credits from: Advanced Practical Journalism (20) Individual Project (20) (core) Advanced Media Production (20) Development and Censorship of Television (20) Development of Public Relations (20) Digital Photojournalism (20) British Cinema (20) America on Film (20) Scripts for Theatre and Television (20) Stanley Kubrick: Auteur (20) e Publishing (20) Creating Documentaries (20) East Asian Media and Culture (20) Page and Screen: France (20) Adaptations in European Cinema (20) Advanced Games (20) Applied Film Production (20) Writing Hypertext (20) Celtic Film (20) English Year 1 60 credits from: Introduction to American Literature and Culture 1 (20) Introduction to Textual Analysis (20) Introduction to American Literature and Culture 2 (20) Critical Interpretations (20) Introduction to Medieval Literature (20) Reading the Renaissance (20) Travellers’ Tales (20) Literature of Comedy (20) Year 2 60 credits from: American Fiction Since 1960 (20) Jonson to Johnson (20) Writing the Renaissance (20) Shakespeare I (20) Medieval Literature (20) Romanticism (20) Victorian Literature (20) Early Twentieth Century Literature (20) Late Twentieth Century Literature (20) Year 3 60 credits from: Modern American Drama (20) Detective Fiction (20) Arthurian Literature (20) Renaissance Cultures (20) Shakespeare's Competitors (20) The Shelleys' Circle (20) Contemporary Poetry (20) Medieval Drama (20) The Literature of Argument (20) Postcolonial Literature (20) Chaucer (20) Written Selves in Early Modern (20) Creative Industries: Literature and Trade (20) Dickens and Print Culture (20)

Additional information

Research and practice Our courses combine elements of research and practice. You have the opportunity to create and produce in all media fields under the supervision of staff that have many years of experience working in the media. We have excellent links with theatre companies, newspapers and the television industry. BBC Wales’ television and radio centre is literally next door, and there are many independent producers nearby. Students will be able to take advantage of the new Pontio centre, which includes a theatre, a cinema, a design and innovation centre, and spacious lecture rooms. Our students play a prominent role in many creative projects, such as Student Cut Films, two student newspapers – Seren and Llef – and a radio station, Storm FM.

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Media Studies and English BA (Hons)

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