Media and Communication BA (Hons)

• Core Concepts in Media and Communication
• Media Industries: National and Global Perspectives
• Media Cultures and Everyday Life
• Introduction to Photography & Video

• Researching Media and Communication
• TV Studies
• Media Discourse: Events
• Media, Gender and Identity
• Streaming Cultures
• Global Subcultures
• Race & the Media
• Public Relations
• New Media Design and Production
• Photography & Video 2: The Documentary Image

• Dissertation
• Sport and the Media
• Paranormal Media
• Future Media
• Gender and TV Fictions
• Global Advertising Practice
• Audiences and Fandom
• Global Dissent
• International Public Relations
• Writing for the Screen
• New Media 2: Creative Project
• Negotiated Practice: Photography or Video

The course is taught both by academics whose research puts them at the forefront of contemporary knowledge and well-connected creative industry practitioners.

Students are taught through a series of one, two or three-hour lectures, seminars/screenings and tutor supported workshops. In addition students can also arrange one-to-one meetings with staff which enables you to receive personal or small-group support for assignments, to discuss career paths, or simply to develop topics discussed in class.

Assessed work will make demands on your academic, critical and creative skills and includes essays, analytical portfolios, scripts, news articles, online work, research tasks, presentations, and practical projects. Students may be required to work both individually and in teams and in doing so will build industry-relevant skills. The culmination of the course is the submission of either a dissertation or a negotiated project on the media-related subject of your choice.

Students have access to a full range of student support services including the Centre for Learning and Study Support (CLaSS) and a dedicated careers service.

On many modules there are regular visiting lecturers from both industry and relevant academic research fields. You can also work on the university’s award winning Demon Media, which includes The Demon student newspaper, DemonFM and DemonTV. There are also plenty of opportunities to get involved in media roles while at DMU whether as a press office for a sports team or university society or working in a media-focussed Frontrunner role where students carry out paid work within the university.

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, group work and self-directed study. Assessment is through coursework (presentations, essays and reports) and usually an exam or test. Your precise timetable will depend on the optional modules you choose to take, however, you will normally attend around 15 hours of timetabled taught sessions (lectures and tutorials) each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 15 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research.

Creative and professional options are taught by vastly experienced former and current practitioners from the fields of public relations, web development and lobbying. All have excellent industry contacts and are keen to help students with their career ambitions.