Honours Degree
This course addresses the industry demand for multiplatform media practitioners and budding media entrepreneurs and managers.
The programme enables students to become conversant with a variety of media platforms and to study the workings of the creative media industries. As such, it is a cross-platform course offering opportunities to carry out media research and work placements and to result in skills applicable across a range of media enterprises.
The course is 50/50 theory and practice, offering practical options in radio, screen production, animation, and web design/interactive media. The theory modules cover media history, the media industry, contemporary digital practice and entrepreneurship. The practical strands run across the three years. Most students take all three strands in level 1 and specialise at level 3.
Some of our modules
- Web Design
- Producing Radio
- Digital Storytelling
- Animation
- Video Production
- Professionalism and Creativity
- Project management
Benefits
- staff are published experts in their fields
- opportunity to experience a lot of different aspects of the media
- ability to tailor learning to own interests
Career paths
- cross platform practitioner
- multi-platform media practitioner
- media consultancy
- creative industries research and leadership
- media entrepreneurship
- project management
- film and television researcher
Are there any placements for this course?
Compulsory
How will the course be assessed?
A mixture of coursework, exams and portfolio assessment.
Entry requirements
Points for degree: 280 points using the UCAS Tariff system
Study options
Full-time, part-time
Location
The Park