BA MEdia & Communications

Here's how your 120 credits stack up:

Documentary Practice

• Researching and making documentary content
• Assessed through portfolio, written reflection

MEdia Theory and REsearch

• Media industries, regulation, technologies, audiences.
• Gathering and analysing primary data (e.g., focus groups, observation, social media data).
• Two research projects and portfolio of formative work.

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Digital ARts: Practice as Research

• Create digital media objects.
• Build on independent research and ideas-development

International Cinemas

• View, analyse films from around the world.
• Study a variety of cinematic styles, genres and critical discourses.

Animation and visual storytelling

• Study the history, genres and styles of animated storytelling.

Dream Factory

• The motion picture industry and American society in the 20th Century.

Writing for the Screen

• Screenwriting
• Storytelling, principles, techniques
• Portfolio of practice-based assessments.

Datascapes

• Collection and display of visual information.
• Design principles, techniques and technologies for creating online media content.

Writing Journalism for the Digital Age

• Fundamentals of journalism for digital platforms.
• Emphasis on written journalism.
• Media law and regulation.
• Portfolio of written assessment.

Creative Media Placement

• Supported by placement officer and academic.
• Assessed through log and reflective report.
• Assessed through log and reflective report.

Languages

• French
• Italian
• Spanish
• English for Academic Purposes

...and finally

Exhibition of your work