Digital Culture And Media (Ba): 4-Year, Part-Time

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 6,935 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

Culture today is increasingly digital. We can know our city’s iconic places through location-aware apps. We shape our identity alongside social media influencers. We are learning that biases around race, class, gender and sexuality are embedded into algorithms. The BA Digital Culture and Media challenges you to immerse yourself in these kinds of issues while also engaging directly with digital technologies and practices.

You will gain knowledge of the most recent advances and concerns relating to digital culture and media: from wearable technologies and artificial intelligence, to online misinformation and data-driven surveillance. We also put such topics under scrutiny in a wider historical context to enable you to better understand how the digital media we use and depend on today have been made possible.

This course is your opportunity to learn about cutting-edge, academic perspectives, while also developing skills and knowledge in applied media practice. Through projects, practice-led activities and experimentation you will acquire professional knowledge and aptitudes in areas such as social media, digital design, video editing and entrepreneurship. This will help you develop a broad and highly transferable understanding of digital culture and media suited to our twenty-first-century context.

This programme is also available for full-time evening study over three years.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

Start date

On request

About this course

Graduates can pursue careers in the media and cultural industries, for example in film, television, newspapers, online publishing, digital media management, magazines, trade publications and public relations. This degree can also provide you with transferable skills and knowledge beneficial to employment in cultural and educational institutions, public policy, third-sector or professional communications.

This course also provides excellent preparation for further postgraduate study on programmes such as our MA Digital Media Culture, MA Digital Media Management and MA Journalism.

We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.

We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.

Awarding Body
University of London

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Subjects

  • Communication Training
  • Communications
  • Public
  • Law
  • Layout
  • Public Relations
  • Conflict
  • IT Law
  • Politics
  • Staff
  • Interview Skills
  • Cultural Studies
  • Teaching
  • Design
  • Film Theory
  • Screenwriting
  • Film and Television
  • Sound
  • Feature Writing
  • Camera
  • Media Studies
  • Cinema
  • Web
  • Project
  • Technology
  • Writing
  • Social Media
  • Part Time
  • Media

Course programme

COURSE STRUCTURE

In Year 1, you take two core modules and one compulsory module.

In Year 2, you take one compulsory module and choose one option module at Level 4 and one option module at Level 5.

In Year 3, you take one compulsory module and choose one option module at Level 5 and one option module at Level 6.

In Year 4, you choose two option modules at Level 6. You also complete a final-year project, either: an extended dissertation on a topic of your choice (8000 words); or a practice-based project which combines a well-defined media practice component with a critical practice essay.

YEAR 1 CORE AND COMPULSORY MODULES
  • Doing Film, Media and Cultural Studies
  • Introduction to Digital Culture
  • Media Studies: Key Thinkers and Approaches
YEAR 2 COMPULSORY MODULE
  • Thinking Through Digital Media
YEAR 3 COMPULSORY MODULE
  • Media, Technology and Culture
INDICATIVE OPTION MODULES
  • Advanced Skills in Digital and Networked Communication
  • Creative Organisations
  • Curating Culture
  • Digital Media Design and Development
  • Documentary
  • Globalisation and Media Cultures
  • Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)
  • Introduction to Cinema
  • Introduction to Public Relations
  • Journalism and Politics
  • Journalism in British Life
  • Manga and Anime
  • Media and Conflict
  • Media Law and Regulation
  • Media, Digitalisation and the City (level 6)
  • Memory, Media and Digital Culture
  • Popular Culture in Japan and East Asia
  • Principles of Layout and Design
  • Professional and Strategic Communications
  • Researching Arts and Media
  • Social Media for Creative Practitioners
  • Television: History and Future
BA DIGITAL CULTURE AND MEDIA PROJECT
  • Project BA Digital Culture and Media
Birkbeck makes all reasonable efforts to deliver educational services, modules and programmes of study as described on our website. In the event that there are material changes to our offering (for example, due to matters beyond our control), we will update applicant and student facing information as quickly as possible and offer alternatives to applicants, offer-holders and current students.

Additional information

Course Fee - 

Part-time international students: £10710 pa

Digital Culture And Media (Ba): 4-Year, Part-Time

£ 6,935 VAT inc.