BA/ BA (Hons) Media (UCAS Code: P301 BA/Media)
Programme Leader Profile - Dr Mark Percival
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This programme comprises the applied and theoretical study of the media industries, their practices, products and audiences. It offers you the opportunity to study various media institutions and the debates surrounding them, and to engage in your own media production. The programme develops your critical understanding of the rapid growth of the media globally, the diversity of media texts available to audiences, and the significance of this for citizenship in the modern world.
Following your completion of years one and two, you will concentrate on the study of the media industries and media production. You will also acquire broader skills in teamwork, academic research, project management, and communication which will enable you to develop careers in a related range of professions.
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In studying the Media core areas you will learn:
- How the media industries operate, how to analyse their products and understand their audiences;
- How media forms have developed and how they generate different kinds of aesthetic pleasures;
- An understanding of your own creative processes through engagement in different forms of media production
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Year One
- Introduction to Media Studies
- Investigating Media Consumption
- Media Production 1
- Media Relations
- Narrative & Representation
- Media Industries
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Year Two
- Media and Popular Culture
- Working in the Media
- Media Production 2
- Media Campaigning
- Media & Citizenship
- Film Genres
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Year Three
- Media, Culture & Society
- Media & Communication Research Methods
- Video Production
- Contemporary Television
- Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
- Persuasive Communication
- Option from Year Four
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Year Four
- Critical Perspectives in Radio
- Journalism in Film and Literature
- Cinema and the Body
- Film and the Family
- Crime Fiction
- Popular Music
- Dissertation
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International Exchanges: In Year Three, students have the option of having a exchange visit with another institution, To find out more please click here: Exchange Visits.
Inter-programme transfers: Students on the BA (Hons) Media may be able to transfer to another media-related programme at the end of year 2. These transfers are by agreement with the relevant programme leaders
FOR MORE INFO, CONTACT:
Jill Marshall
T: 0131 474 0000
Email: Jill Marshall |
Careers: Media, Communication & Performing Arts graduates have begun careers in fields such as:
Academic & PhD Research, Advertising Arts and Cultural Management, Entertainment Industries, Marketing News, Production, Public Relations, Publishing, Radio & Television Production, Television Research, Telecommunications, Tourism.
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