Take your media skills into social enterprise
Course Overview
This course is ideal for those who want to step outside commercial media and hit the ground running in third sector environments. Covering radio, television, film and digital media, you’ll find out what kind of entrepreneur and creative practitioner you need to be to step into public engagement media and social enterprise.
Whatever your media background, you will have a valuable contribution to make to the community media sector which demands high levels of confidence and leadership in ensuring successful and sustainable projects.
It’s the chance to add a new dimension to your career by broadening the range of sectors you can work in, give you the confidence to launch your own community project or to collaborate with other practitioners.
Key Content
Learning will be centred on engaging with the development of community and hyper-local media in the UK and beyond. Content will be influenced by the real-world needs of community media organisations in the twenty-first century and draw on students’ own experiences of social enterprise projects and match students’ experience to the expectations of third sector working. Generic themes will include:
When, Where and How Much?
This six-week course will begin with a two-day conference/workshop event that will take place at the Park Campus, Cheltenham on 28th and 29th April 2012. This will be followed by six weeks of supported online study and a presentation/assessment session on June 16th 2012. The cost of this course will be £800.
Course Delivery
During the two-day conference/workshop event, you will explore case studies, fire-fight common problems and actively engage in the production of creative ideas for community media and social enterprise with a range of like-minded media professionals. Input from guest speakers and media academics all engaged in entrepreneurial activities in third sector environments will boost your learning. After your event you will have the opportunity to further develop your knowledge with six weeks of supported online study during which you will take part in a variety of online exercises, forums and project management activities which will be collated for assessment in the online environment.
You will have the option of undertaking an academic assignment and on its successful completion will gain 20 Masters level credits. If you go on to participate in and pass more of our courses you can accrue credit towards a PG Cert (3 courses), a PG Dip (6 courses) and a Masters (dissertation).
Entry Requirements
This course is open to media professionals with an undergraduate degree and the required work experience in a relevant industry (normally a minimum of two years); and to non-graduates with significant and relevant work experience who can demonstrate an ability to both complete and benefit from the course. There are no additional entry requirements for this course.
How to Apply?
Please apply using the Skillset Application form and return it to skillsetcourses@glos.ac.uk
This course is part of the Build Your Own MA portfolio of Professional Media Short Courses being delivered by participating Skillset Media Academies across England. All of these short courses offer postgraduate credits towards an award and can be taken individually or in combination with other courses across the network to achieve a recognised qualification, a Postgraduate Certificate, Diploma or MA in Professional Media Practice. Visit http://www.skillset.org/build/ to browse all available courses and find out more.