B.A. Media Studies

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
• Audio Vision
• Contemporary Media Events
• Introduction to Media Studies
• Media Study Skills
• Media Writing: Critical Reviews and Features

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 in this year include:

• Print Media
• Screen Media

Options to choose from in this year include:

• Analysing Comic Books
• Approaches to Popular Culture
• Media Networks: Exploring Digital Culture
• Media Writing for Public Relations
• Media Writing for the Press
• Media Writing for the Screen and Radio
• Media, Culture and National Identity
• Music: Practice, Performance and Research
• Production Introduction - Script and Shooting
• Professional Experience
• Researching Genre
• Social Issues in the Media
• Sport and the Media
• Student Enterprise
• The Media and Propaganda

In the final year you will have the freedom to tailor your studies to your particular areas of interest. You will choose from a selection of optional topics ranging from comedy to British drama and you’ll have the choice between a dissertation or production/writing project to round off the course.

Options to choose from in this year include:

• British TV Drama and Society
• Comedy Culture and Form
• Cultures of Consumption
• Film Stardom and Celebrity Culture
• Marketing Movies
• Media Fan Cultures
• News, War and Peace
• Practical Video Project
• Representing Science in the Media
• Researching Animation
• TV Talk Shows