Communication & Society and Global Studies - BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Nottingham

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Nottingham

  • Duration

    3 Years

It enables you to shape your study according to your strengths, interests and career ambitions. Combining two subjects can give your degree an international or industry perspective that will make you stand out in the graduate employment market.

Our course combinations are designed so that what you learn in one subject will complement and enhance what you learn in the other. In your final year you can choose either to split your time evenly between your two subjects, or to specialise in one. Our flexible curriculum has been designed to create some amazing opportunities for you too. Your second year of study is divided into two semesters that enables you to take part in optional work placements or go on an international exchange.

By choosing Global Studies and Communication & Society you’ll enjoy the freedom to choose from a wide range of optional modules, depending on your own preferences and interests. By combining these two subjects you’ll gain an in-depth understanding of global issues and the ability to analyse the role of communication from an international perspective.

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Start date

Nottingham (Nottinghamshire)
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Start date

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About this course

Our recent Communication and Society and Global Studies Joint Honours graduates have gone onto careers in:

broadcasting
marketing
publishing
charity fundraising
policy research
business analysis.

Other careers could include:

law
PR
teaching
business management
working for a National Government Organisation.

104 UCAS tariff points from up to four qualifications (two of which must be A-level equivalent)
GCSEs - English and Maths grade C / 4.
If you are unsure whether the qualifications you have, or are currently studying for, meet the minimum entry requirements for this course, please contact us before submitting an application through UCAS.

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Subjects

  • Perspective
  • Global
  • Communications
  • Intercultural
  • Media Communications
  • Journalism
  • Culture
  • Media
  • Dissertation
  • Advertising

Course programme

Year One
  • Face-to-Face to Facebook: Understanding Communication in an Age of New Media
  • Introducing Media Communications: Publicity, Persuasion and Propaganda
  • Foundations in Global Studies
  • Issues in Intercultural Communication
  • Media Communications and Digital Cultures
  • Psychology of Communication
Year Two
  • Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Explorations of Identity and Selfhood
  • Researching Global Experience
  • Humanities at work
Communication & Society optional modules
  • Advertising, Public Relations and Journalism 1: The New Creativity
  • Communications and Creativity Toolkit
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Media and Culture in Asia
  • Digital Identities: The Politics of Communication in the Globalised World
Global Studies optional modules
  • In-Country Study
  • Gender and Nation
  • Intercultural Communication in International Context
Year Three
  • Dissertation
Communication & Society optional modules
  • Advertising, Public Relations and Journalism 2: Convergence and Creativity in the Digital Age
  • Self in Crisis: Power, Prejudice and Otherness
  • DJ Cultures: History, Theory and Technique
  • Trans-National and Alternative Media
  • Humanity in the Natural World
Global Studies optional modules
  • Global Citizenship
  • Development in the 21st Century
  • Small Islands, Big Issues: Small Island Developing States in a Globalising World

Communication & Society and Global Studies - BA (Hons)

Price on request