Global Media and Communications BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Brighton

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Brighton

  • 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.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Brighton (East Sussex)
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Sussex House, BN1 9RH

Start date

On request

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

Year 1 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Digital Environment
  • Questioning the Media A
Spring teaching
  • Culture and the Everyday
  • Debates in Media Studies A
Options

Autumn teaching
  • Creative Production: Communication Design
  • Creative Production: Documentary Video
  • Creative Production: Photography
  • Creative Production: Sound Design
  • Film Analysis
  • Popular Music Cultures
Spring teaching
  • Creative Production: Communication Design
  • Creative Production: Documentary Video
  • Creative Production: Photography
  • Creative Production: Sound Design
  • Working with Film
Customise your course

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

Autumn teaching
  • Law and Governance
  • News, Politics and Power A
Spring teaching
  • Researching Media and Communication
Options

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
Customise your course

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

Autumn teaching
  • Media and Communications Dissertation Preparation
Spring teaching
  • Media and Communications Dissertation
Options

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
Spring teaching
  • 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

International students Fee :  £20,750 per year

Global Media and Communications BA (Hons)

£ 9,250 VAT inc.