Communication and Media BA
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Bachelor's degree
In Leeds
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Leeds
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Duration
3 Years
From political campaigns to celebrity scandals and the ways we communicate with each other, media is at the centre of our daily experiences. This challenging programme will equip you to analyse the media and think critically about its social and political impacts, while giving you the chance to explore media production.
You’ll study theory and research in communication and media alongside the broader economic, political and social context of the communications and media industries. You’ll develop your critical and creative skills, and optional modules could see you building skills such as screenwriting, camera and editing techniques and new media practices.
Taught by expert researchers, you could choose to focus on PR, cinema history, film production, film studies, news journalism, digital media and a range of other topics. You could even undertake a four-week work placement to gains hands-on experience in the communications and media industries.
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About this course
This degree will give you broad and in-depth subject knowledge as well as key analytical and teamwork skills that are highly valuable in the media and creative industries. Our graduates work in a variety of media sectors including TV production, film, PR, events organisation, digital media, magazine publishing, media and cultural policy and research among others.
Because this degree maintains an academic grounding in social sciences and humanities approaches, it’s also a strong foundation for a range of different careers in the public, private and third sectors.
A-level: AAB
Other course specific tests:
If you’re taking the EPQ you may receive an alternative offer alongside a standard offer. In this case the typical offer would be ABB plus grade A in the EPQ.
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Subjects
- Camera
- Cinema
- Communications
- Communication Training
- Production
- Media
- Communication Research
- Studying Media
- Communication Theory
- Animation
- Digital Media
- Digital Cultures
- Journalism
Course programme
- How can we understand the roles of media in society?
- What roles do media play in political processes?
- How do changes in the media relate to our understandings of gender, race, religion and sexuality?
- What factors influence the work of communications professionals?
Year 2 builds on this foundation when you study communications theories in more depth and develop your research skills. You’ll place your knowledge of the media industries into the context of media policy-making and select optional modules on diverse topics such as the concept of genre in cinema, journalism ethics and digital media.
By your final year, you’ll have the specialist knowledge and research skills to complete a dissertation on a specific communication or media topic of your choice, supervised by an academic specialist in the School. You’ll complement this with your choice of optional modules in a wide range of areas, from citizen media to audience research, political journalism to documentaries. You could also undertake a four-week work placement to gain hands-on experience in the industry.
Modules
Year 1
Compulsory modules
- The History of Communication
- Introduction to Media and Communication Research
- Power, Politics and the Media
- Studying Media
- Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
Optional modules
- Camera and Editing
- Animation and Interactivity
- Introduction to Cinema
Year 2
Compulsory modules
- Visual Communication
- Media Policy20 credits
- Communication Research Methods
Optional modules
- Critical Theories of Media
- Technology in Communication and Media
- Journalism Ethics
- Issues in Journalism
- Communication Skills
- Screen Fiction
- Digital Storytelling
- Digital Cultures
- Working in Digital Media Teams
- Cinematic Themes
- Videogames: Identities in Play
- From Film Noir to Asia Extreme: Questioning Genre in World Cinemas
- Digital Communications Across Cultures
Year 3
Compulsory modules
- Communication Dissertation
Optional modules
- The Documentary and Reality
- International Communication
- Placement
- Feminism, Identity and Media
- Understanding the Audience
- The Reporting of Politics
- TV Documentary Journalism
- The Ethnography of Speaking
- Popular Music and Society
- Internet Policy
- Mobile Media
- Citizen Media
- War and Media
- Promotional Culture
- Creative Work in the Cultural Industries
Communication and Media BA