BA Communications and Digital Culture (4 Years Including Foundation Year)

University of Essex

Bachelor's degree

In Colchester

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Colchester

  • Duration

    4 Years

About the course
Are you an EU or international student who wants to study sociology in the UK? Do you need to improve your English language and academic study skills?
On our four-year BA Communications and Digital Culture (including foundation year), we work with you to help improve your language skills, to develop your subject-specific knowledge, and to improve your academic skills

You receive a thorough grounding in these areas during your foundation year (known as Year Zero) to prepare you for a further three years of undergraduate study at Essex


You are an Essex student from day one, a member of our global community based at the most internationally diverse campus university in the UK


At Essex we investigate what connects people with each other, as well as what divides them

We consider every aspect of our daily lives, from how we relate to politicians, celebrities and friends, to how we define ourselves, our families, and others


You experience a lively, informal environment with many possibilities to pursue a variety of topics including:
The impact of computer games on crime
Mass media and modern life
The art, film and personal testimony of war
Practical research methods, including designing interview schedules and surveys and handling cultural data
Our BA Communications and Digital Culture is run by the Department of Sociology, which was rated top 10 in the UK for research quality (REF 2014), and we consistently receive strong student satisfaction scores, including 91% overall student satisfaction in 2014

Facilities

Location

Start date

Colchester (Essex)
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Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Communications
  • Media
  • English
  • Criminology
  • Sociology
  • Teaching
  • Skills and Training

Course programme

Example structure
Studying at Essex is about discovering yourself, so your course combines compulsory and optional modules to make sure you gain key knowledge in the discipline, while having as much freedom as possible to explore your own interests. Our research-led teaching is continually evolving to address the latest challenges and breakthroughs in the field, therefore to ensure your course is as relevant and up-to-date as possible your core module structure may be subject to change.
For many of our courses you’ll have a wide range of optional modules to choose from – those listed in this example structure are just a selection of those available. The opportunity to take optional modules will depend on the number of core modules within any year of the course. In many instances, the flexibility to take optional modules increases as you progress through the course.
Our Programme Specification gives more detail about the structure available to our current first-year students, including details of all optional modules.
Year 0
Political and Social Theory From Plato to the Present Day
Academic Skills
Major Writers in English Literature
An Introduction to the History of the United Kingdom During the Twentieth Century
Western Philosophy: Fundamental Questions, Major Thinkers
Year 1
Researching Social Life I
Media, Culture and Society
The Sociological Imagination
Approaches to Film and Media (optional)
Year 2
Continuity and Controversy in Sociology: Sociological Analysis II
Researching Social Life II
Digital Society
British Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century (optional)
Final year
Current Disputes in Sociology: Sociological Analysis III
Mass Media and Modern Life
Research Project: Sociology
American Society: Ethnic Encounters in the Making of the USA (optional)
Teaching
Your teaching mainly takes the form of lectures and classes, the latter involving about 20 students
Lab sessions to improve technical research skills
Any language classes involve language laboratory sessions
Our classes are run in small groups, so you receive a lot of individual attention
Assessment
Your assessed coursework will generally consist of essays, reports, in-class tests, individual or group oral presentations, and small scale research projects
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Additional information

Professional accreditation Essex is one of just three universities in the country to have received Q-Step affiliate status for our social science courses We offer you the opportunity to follow a specialised pathway that embeds quantitative methods in your degree Successful completion of specified modules entitles you to receive the qualifier ‘(Applied Quantitative Methods)’ at the end of your degree title, for example BA Communications and Digital Culture (Applied Quantitative Methods) and this will appear on your transcript, helping you stand out when applying for jobs Our expert staff Our staff all have strong subject backgrounds, and are highly skilled in their areas both as academics and practitioners Our staff have worked at local, national and international level with bodies like news organisations, advertising agencies, local councils, the Home Office, Amnesty International and the United Nations They are high-profile researchers with interests across the field of media, culture and society Professor Sean Nixon is an expert on media history, consumer cultures and advertising Dr Michael Bailey leads on cultural policy studies, critical theory and heritage and has been closely involved with national debates on the Leveson Inquiry into UK press regulation Dr James Allen-Robertson specialises in digital cultures, disruptive technologies and gaming Specialist facilities By studying within our International Academy for your foundation year, you will have access to all of the facilities that the University of Essex has to offer, as well as those provided by our Academy to support you: We provide computer labs for internet research; classrooms with access to PowerPoint facilities for student presentations; AV facilities for teaching and access to web-based learning materials Our new Student Services Hub will support you and provide information for all your needs as a student Our social space is stocked with hot magazines and...

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