BA (Hons) Media and Communications with Foundation Year

Course detail
Course overview
You will learn about approaches to communications, media institutions, and the cultural industries, while gaining a range of transferable skills essential to media/communications professions. Your course will combine theory and practice, encouraging you to understand the connections between creativity and the contexts (historical, political, technical) in which creative practice takes place. You will sample various aspects of the industry - including, in your first year, hands-on experience of filmmaking, radio and web technologies - enabling you to merge a critical understanding of the media and communications field with direct practical experience.

The contemporary media are powerful instruments of communication - the press, broadcasting, cinema and now social media - serve as a conduit for both commercial interests and as a means for the representation of social and personal identity.

This course enables you to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to examine the way these technologies affect our understanding and experience of everyday life and to consider the centrality of media and communications as a vital part of an understanding of contemporary culture.

Modules

Foundation Year
Personalised Learning
Academic Performance
Contextual Studies in Media and Design
Creative Research in Media and Design
Creative Sectors
Foundation Major Project.
Year One
The Moving Image
Introduction to Video
TV and Radio Industries
Introduction to Radio
Introduction to Web Technologies
Media and Communications Theories and Debates.
Year Two
Work Experience (Industry Experience)
Recording Reality
Media and Communications Histories
Genres
Cultures of Consumption
Option module (choice of film/video, radio, or web).
Year Three
Media and Communications Project.
Option module
Dissertation (double module).
Option module
Media Ethics and Policy.
Options currently include:
Crime and Fiction
New Media
Print and Visual Communication
Orientalism
creative module in film/video, radio, or the web.
Media and Communications is currently being revised and improved as part of a periodic course review. Some module titles may change.