Media Studies BA (Hons)
Education with the personal touch
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Media Studies BA (Hons)
Course fees: £10,225* per year *These fees apply if you are starting this course between September 2013 and August 2014. We recommend you check fees as they can change. Costs can increase each year.
Start date: September UCAS Code: P300
Why choose this course? This course is taught by active researchers and practitioners, who will inspire and challenge you and help you to get the most out of your studies. The staff who teach the theoretical modules have all been published, and those who deliver the practical components have first hand experience of working in the media industries.
We’ve previously run trips to Pinewood Studios and recently we took students to the UK Asian Music Awards to give them an opportunity to gain work experience.
Your career Careers talks are arranged each year and former students have gone on to work in TV researching, film and TV production, public relations, marketing, film archiving, web design, radio presenting or production and newspapers. Others used their degree for higher level entry into, for example, the Civil Service, public relations, charity management, customer services, further education or teaching. If you would like to pursue your studies to gain a postgraduate qualification, you may wish to take our MA Humanities course.
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STAGE ONE
Audiences and Audience Research
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Teaching is delivered through a range of methods: lectures, seminars, practical workshops and tutorials.
Digital Publishing 1: News Media
Mass Media: Text and Context
Television Production 1
Representation, Race and Gender
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How you’ll learn
American Cultural Studies: An Introduction
Media, Culture and Power: European Cultural Studies
American Popular Music
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Duration: 3 years full time
You'll develop a high level of media literacy and an understanding of media power and manipulation.
What you’ll cover
Media Research Project
Conflicting Images: News and the Media
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Language – A qualification such as IELTS 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 in all areas) or TOEFL – 550 (paper based), 213 (computer based), 80 (internet based). See our website for other accepted qualifications or phone us: +44 (0)1332 591698.
This course will introduce you to the study and practice of a range of media forms and institutions. It focuses on how media engages with society, with practice based modules encouraging your creativity and understanding of the shaping of media products.
STAGE THREE
Entry requirements: Academic – 260 UCAS tariff points, of which at least 220 must be from your International Baccalaureate or equivalent qualification.
About the course
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Where you will study: Derby Campus – Kedleston Road site.
Independent Study in Media Studies
Options Stage two You’ll choose from: ▪ Digital Publishing 2: Media and Convergence ▪ Television Production 2 ▪ Print Production ▪ Youth TV ▪ Media Law ▪ American Television in the 1950s and 1960s ▪ American Youth Cinema ▪ Work Based Learning in the Creative and Cultural Industries ▪ Media Ethics. Stage three You’ll choose from: ▪ Television Production 3: TV Drama ▪ Contesting Cultures: American Popular Culture in the Contemporary World ▪ Cultures of the War on Terror ▪ Schedules and Margins
▪ Contemporary American Cinema ▪ Documentary and Factual Production: Poetics and Praxis ▪ Cyberbodies ▪ Management Experience in the Creative and Cultural Industries ▪ TV and Tourism ▪ Digital Publishing 3: Professional Digital Portfolio.
The course has opened more doors to me than I thought possible. Through the hard work of teaching staff, who are always happy to take the time to help students, I have been able to begin working as a freelancer. Lewis Love
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