Digital Culture And Media With Foundation Year (Ba): 4-Year, Full-Time
Bachelor's degree
In London
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
London
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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 with Foundation Year 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.
Before proceeding to the main degree, you will spend your Foundation Year preparing yourself for a degree in the arts by improving your study and research skills and gaining arts-related knowledge and understanding. You will also have the opportunity to take a language module as part of the Foundation Year.
Upon successful completion of the Foundation Year, you can automatically progress on to our three-year, full-time, evening study BA Digital Culture and Media.
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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.
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
- Digital Video Editing
- Video Editing
- Public Relations
- IT Law
- Conflict
- Politics
- Staff
- Interview Skills
- Cultural Studies
- Teaching
- Design
- Film Theory
- Screenwriting
- Film and Television
- Sound
- Feature Writing
- Camera
- Media Studies
- Cinema
- Web
- Project
- Technology
- Industry
- Writing
- Social Media
- Full Time
- Media
Course programme
For the Foundation Year, you undertake three core modules and choose one option module: either The Arts: Questioning the Contemporary World or a language module.
If you successfully complete these modules, you will automatically advance on to our three-year, full-time, evening study BA Digital Culture and Media.
FOUNDATION YEAR CORE MODULES
- Breaking Boundaries of Knowledge
- Fundamentals of Study: Learning through the Global City
- The Arts: Perspectives and Possibilities
- French 1
- French 2
- French 3 (Level 4)
- French 4 (Level 4)
- German 1
- German 2
- German 3 (Level 4)
- German 4 (Level 4)
- Italian 1
- Italian 2
- Italian 3 (Level 4)
- Italian 4 (Level 4)
- Japanese 1
- Japanese 2
- Japanese 3 (Level 4)
- Japanese 4 (Level 4)
- Spanish 1
- Spanish 2
- Spanish 3 (Level 4)
- Spanish 4 (Level 4)
- The Arts: Questioning the Contemporary World
Additional information
Digital Culture And Media With Foundation Year (Ba): 4-Year, Full-Time