Global Media and Communications BA (Hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
3 Years
Build networks, and broaden your horizons and career prospects with our Global Media and Communications BA.
This immersive course enables you to gain a truly global perspective on the media.You spend your third year in Hong Kong, the thriving and welcoming Asian hub of the global media industry, working with your fellow students and being taught in English.
You’ll graduate with:
a unique understanding of the global media
an ability to work across cultures
an international view on where your career could start.
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About this course
The creative and cultural industries are global entities – with the overwhelming majority of companies, organisations and institutions in this sector operating across national borders.
You'll graduate with excellent employment prospects, particularly in global PR firms, news agencies, publishers, advertising and corporate communications.
You'll be prepared to take up jobs such as:
media researcher
content producer
media account manager
social media assistant.
You must have GCSE (or equivalent) in English at grade 5 (or grade B).
You should also have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.
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Subjects
- Design
- Cinema
- Global
- Communications
- Communication Training
- Media
- Music
- Production
- Digital Environment
- Media Studies
- Communication design
- Documentary Video
- Photography
Course programme
Autumn teaching
- Digital Environment
- Questioning the Media A
- Culture and the Everyday
- Debates in Media Studies A
Autumn teaching
- Creative Production: Communication Design
- Creative Production: Documentary Video
- Creative Production: Photography
- Creative Production: Sound Design
- Film Analysis
- Popular Music Cultures
- Creative Production: Communication Design
- Creative Production: Documentary Video
- Creative Production: Photography
- Creative Production: Sound Design
- Working with Film
At Sussex, you can choose to customise your course to build the sort of degree that will give you the knowledge, skills and experience that could take you in any direction you choose.
Year 2 at sussex
- Law and Governance
- News, Politics and Power A
- Researching Media and Communication
Spring teaching
- Advertising and Social Change B
- American Popular Music
- British Cinema B
- Chinese Cinema B
- Culture, Race and Ethnicity
- Debates in Screen Documentary B
- Digital Cultures B
- Film Music after 1950
- Gender, Space and Culture
- Journalism in Crisis B
- Screenwriting
- TV: Fictions and Entertainments B
At Sussex, you can choose to customise your course to build the sort of degree that will give you the knowledge, skills and experience that could take you in any direction you choose.
Study abroad
You’ll spend a year living and studying in Hong Kong, learning with the students who spent Year 2 at Sussex.
You’ll study core courses alongside your classmates. Through your choice of options, you’ll get to mix more widely with students from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Year 3 at sussex
- Media and Communications Dissertation Preparation
- Media and Communications Dissertation
Autumn teaching
- Cities, Capital, Culture
- Consuming Passions
- Digital Humanities
- Documentary, Reality TV and 'Real Lives'
- Film and Revolution (A)
- Globalisation and Communication
- Hollywood Industry and Imaginary
- Media, War and Terrorism
- Public Relations
- Revolutionary Media
- Sexualities and the Cinema
- Social Media and Critical Practice
- The Film Festival Circuit
- The Politics of Representation
- Viewing Women
- Adaptation: Filming Fiction
- Celebrity, Media and Culture
- Comedy and Cultural Belonging
- Digital Industries and Internet Cultures
- Eastern European Cinemas: myth and memory
- Everyday Life and Technology
- Hollywood Comedian Comedy
- Humanitarian Communication
- Media, Publics and Protest
- Performing the Urban: postcolonial perspectives
- Teen Cinema: Coming of Age on Screen
- The Cinematic City
Additional information
Global Media and Communications BA (Hons)