Media and Communication Studies pathways
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Communication Studies BA (Hons)
Film, journalism, digital media and language: how do these various communication systems shape the world around us, and our perception of it?
From politics and human rights, to celebrity and culture: you will learn how such ideas are influenced, expressed and shared. You will have the opportunity to explore a wide range of media and communication forms, analysing how they are organised as text, how they represent the world to us and ourselves to the world (from global power politics to constructions of individual identity), and how the media industries are organised to produce and profit from them.
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Media and Culture BA (Hons)
The programme offers informed, critical and innovative approaches to the study of contemporary culture and media. You will study media and communications within their wider cultural context, preparing you to engage with the cultural sector and for careers in the cultural, arts and heritage industries. The programme also offers strong foundations for those wishing to pursue postgraduate studies in a wide range of fields.
On this course, media are not understood in isolation as channels for communication, but as practices embedded in institutions and in everyday experience. Because studying contemporary culture and media requires you to become familiar with a range of theories and methods, we introduce you to critical concepts and perspectives drawn from cultural studies, film and media studies, social and visual anthropology, sociology, cultural history, the visual arts, cultural geography and more. You can add to these interdisciplinary perspectives by choosing optional classes or modules from across the Department and Faculty.
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Media, Data and Society BA (Hons)
The BA Media, Data and Society is a forward-looking programme that combines standard approaches to studying the media with computational and data-driven methods to address the growing role of data and algorithms in society.
The programme includes a range of core and optional modules spanning topics such as political media, screen media and public relations. In the second and final years, the modules will provide you with more specialist skills, including a critical understanding of digital media, data, and artificial intelligence, and hands-on technical experience in computer programming, data science, and data visualisation.
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Screen Industries and Entertainment BA (Hons)
Privileging perspectives rooted in the arts, humanities and cultural studies, the programme is an ideal pathway for students with ambitions to work in the entertainment industry, and those with aspirations towards postgraduate study.
The emphasis of the programme is on the global interconnectedness of screen industries and experiences of entertainment, moving beyond Eurocentric approaches to the subject. It draws directly on the expertise of our Screen and Film Research Cluster, whose work engages explicitly with issues relating to industry, institutions, business, entertainment and screen media. Covering a range of screen media (film, television, streaming, virtual-augmented reality, games, music) and the industries they operate in, the programme allows you to engage with multiple facets of global screen industries.
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