Media and Cultural Studies : BA Hons : LP63

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Media continuously influence the way we live our lives, get in touch with others, and are informed about the world. As global citizens we are surrounded by a huge variety of messages, texts, images, and representations communicating a host of competing ideas, opinions, and values. But how much do we really know about how these texts and images are produced and shared, in what contexts they circulate, and how they are received? Contemporary media are seldom subject to intense scrutiny and critical interrogation except during feverish moments of scandal, crisis, or sudden technological change.

Our Media and Cultural Studies programme provides you with the theoretical insights, analytical skills, and wide-ranging knowledge needed to explore the production, consumption, and meaning of media and culture in an ever-changing technological landscape. We provide you with the tools and knowledge to investigate the social, economic, political, and practical dimensions of media in a global cultural setting, and to recognise the key roles of media in shaping who we are, what we think, and what we value. Our degree is primarily theoretical and analytical, but contains practical components and skills embedded within the core curriculum.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

We are proud that our graduates are very successful in gaining employment across a variety of careers, including roles in advertising, marketing and particularly in the media and creative sectors.

Skills such as critical analysis and comprehension, research, presentation and writing, can lead to many avenues of employment – from journalism and marketing to arts administration.

Our graduates have also gone on to further academic or vocational study in media-related careers, such as television production, or teaching.

Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, but that you also graduate with relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability/career development, campus community and social development.

A Level ABB

IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • Cultural Studies
  • Global
  • Media
  • Production
  • Social Media
  • Mass Media
  • Social Problems
  • Sociological Imagination
  • Gender and Media
  • Visual culture

Course programme

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Year 1

Core

    • Transformations: From Mass Media to Social Media

Optional

    • Contemporary Social Problems
    • Gender and Women's Studies: Identities, Inequalities and Politics
    • The Sociological Imagination
Year 2

Core

    • Critical Cultural Theory

Optional

    • Consumer Culture and Advertising
    • Friendship, Intimacy and Society
    • Gender and Media
    • Media and Visual Culture
    • Viral Video Production
Year 3

Core

    • Independent Dissertation Project

Optional

    • Cities, Cultures, Creativities - Urban Development in the Age of Global Media
    • Feminism and Social Change
    • Social Media and Activism
    • Sociology goes to Hollywood
    • Sociology of the Future
    • Violence and Society

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

Additional information

Overseas Fee - £15,680

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