Media And Culture (Ba): 4-Year, Part-Time

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 6,935 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

Are you fascinated by our constantly changing contemporary media and culture? Do you want to develop yourself into an independent thinker capable of negotiating rapid shifts in the media and creative industries today? During this course you will be challenged, not only to think about media but to also think through media by engaging directly with digital and traditional media forms.

The BA Media and Culture gives you important insight into the world where media permeates almost every aspect of our lives. You will explore core topics in media studies, such as social media, mobile technology, film, television and journalism. At the same time, you will have a chance to develop a working understanding of how media impacts fields such as arts, curating, design, education, literature, museums, performance, politics and activism.

This course is your opportunity to learn about cutting-edge academic perspectives, while also developing skills and knowledge in applied media practice. It will help you develop a broad and highly transferable understanding of media culture suited to our twenty-first-century context.

This programme is also available for full-time evening study over three years and for part-time evening study over six years.

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London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

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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 transferable skills and knowledge to work in cultural and educational institutions, public policy 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.

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Subjects

  • Communication Training
  • Social Media
  • Public
  • Law
  • Art
  • Public Relations
  • Theatre
  • Networks
  • IT Law
  • Politics
  • Cultural Studies
  • Design
  • Media Studies
  • Cinema
  • Web
  • School
  • Project
  • Technology
  • Part Time
  • Media

Course programme

COURSE STRUCTURE

In Year 1, you take two core modules and one compulsory module.

In Year 2, you take one compulsory module and choose one option module at Level 4 and one option module at Level 5.

In Year 3, you take one compulsory module and choose one option module at Level 5 and one option module at Level 6.

In Year 4, you choose two option modules at Level 6. You also complete a final-year project, either: an extended piece of supervised research on a topic of your choice (8000 words); or a practice-based project which combines a well-defined media practice component with a critical practice essay.

COMPULSORY MODULES
  • Doing Film, Media and Cultural Studies
  • Media, Technology and Culture
  • Thinking Through Digital Media
CORE MODULES
  • Media Studies: Key Thinkers and Approaches
  • The Politics of Culture
LEVEL 4 OPTION MODULES
  • Introduction to Cinema
  • Introduction to Public Relations
  • Journalism in British Life
  • Performing Theatre Histories (Critical Practice I)
  • Performing/Live Arts: Histories, Networks and Organisations
  • Television: History and Future
  • Visual Art: Histories, Networks and Organisations
LEVEL 5 OPTION MODULES
  • Approaches to Cinema History
  • Communities in Theatre and Performance (Critical Practice III)
  • Curating Culture
  • Digital Media Design and Development
  • Documentary
  • Journalism and Politics
  • Media Law and Regulation
  • Popular Culture in Japan and East Asia
  • Social Media for Creative Practitioners
  • Space and Performance (Critical Practice II)
  • Theories of Theatricality and Performance
LEVEL 6 OPTION MODULES
  • Advanced Skills in Digital and Networked Communication
  • Aliveness and the Arts
  • Contemporary European Cinema
  • Critically Queer
  • Crowds and Power
  • Gender and Sexuality in Cinema
  • Globalisation and Media Cultures
  • Industry Placement (level 6 Arts)
  • Manga and Anime
  • Media and Conflict
  • Media, Digitalisation and the City (level 6)
  • Memory and Media
  • Modernism and the City
  • Principles of Digital Video and Editing
  • Principles of Layout and Design
  • Professional and Strategic Communications
  • Reading 21st Century Fictions
  • Understanding Audiences: Engagement, Education and Development
  • World Cinema
BA PROJECT MEDIA AND CULTURE
  • Project BA Media and Culture
Birkbeck makes all reasonable efforts to deliver educational services, modules and programmes of study as described on our website. In the event that there are material changes to our offering (for example, due to matters beyond our control), we will update applicant and student facing information as quickly as possible and offer alternatives to applicants, offer-holders and current students.

Additional information

Course Fee - 

Part-time international students: £10500 pa

Media And Culture (Ba): 4-Year, Part-Time

£ 6,935 VAT inc.