Media (Joint Honours) BA (Hons)

About the course

A Joint Honours Media degree at DMU gives you a comprehensive understanding of the important theories, issues and debates in the media and discover where your own talents lie.

Reasons to study Media (Joint Honours) at DMU

• Combining Media and Communication with another subject allows you to create a fascinating degree that reflects your interests and ambitions
  
• Close links with local media partners such as BBC Radio Leicester, community media organisations and Leicester’s independent arts and cinema complex, Phoenix Square provide opportunities for work experience and cultural connections
  
• Students have the chance to contribute to the Demon Media stable of multimedia platforms, including The Demon newspaper, Demon FM community radio station, Demon TV and The Demon website

First year teaching focuses on the modern media landscape where you will be encouraged to engage critically and creatively with digital, print and broadcast media as well as exploring the potential of visual media. In your second and third years you can choose from a wide range of professional, academic and creative pathways in line with your interests and ambitions to create a degree which is fascinating and relevant to your aspirations.

You can choose from theoretical options as well as from creative and professional modules and will be supported throughout your study by a friendly teaching team of media academics and industry professionals.

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Key facts

UCAS course code:

• Media and Drama Studies: PWH4
• English and Media: QP33
• English Language and Media: QP33
• Film Studies and Media: P390
• Journalism and Media: PPH5
• Marketing and Media: NP53

Duration: Three years full-time/six years part-time

Institution code: D26

Entry and admission criteria

Film Studies and Media

Clearing 2013 Entry Requirements

Call our Clearing Hotline on 0116 257 7000 for the latest availablility and entry requirements.

If you are unsure about how many UCAS points you have gained, use our simple UCAS Tariff Chart| or call us on the Clearing Hotline where one of our advisers will be happy to help.

Journalism and Media

Clearing 2013 Entry Requirements

Call our Clearing Hotline on 0116 257 7000 for the latest availablility and entry requirements.

If you are unsure about how many UCAS points you have gained, use our simple UCAS Tariff Chart| or call us on the Clearing Hotline where one of our advisers will be happy to help.

Other combinations may not be available, please call us on 0116 257 7000 to find out more.

Teaching and assessment

The course is taught by well connected academics and creative industry practitioners who were awarded a world leading result in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in 2008. There are also regular visiting lecturers from both industry and academic research fields. You will be taught through a series of one or two hour lectures, seminars, screenings and two hour tutor supported workshops. Assessed work includes essays, portfolios, scripts, news articles, online work, mini research tasks, presentations and practical projects.

Course modules

Year one

• Introduction to Media, Culture and Society
• Analysing Media and Communication
• Networked Media
• Photography and Video 1

Year two

• Researching Media and Communication
• Television Studies
• Journalism 1
• New Media 1: Design and Production
• Media, Gender and Identity
• Public Relations 1
• Media Discourse
• Citizen Media
• Photography and Video 2 (The Documentary Image)

Year three

• Media Dissertation*/Negotiated Project
• Journalism 2
• Forms and Practices of Radio
• New Media: Creative Project
• Advertising and Consumption
• Political Communication
• Writing for the Screen
• Audiences and Fandom
• Public Relations 2
• Negotiated Practice – Photography or Video
• Identities
• Music Industry Management

Joint honours degree students will study choose available modules from 50% of one subject and 50% of another.

*As a joint honours student you can choose to do your dissertation in Media or your other subject.

Academic expertise

Creative and professional options are taught by experienced former and current practitioners from the fields of public relations, web development, journalism and lobbying. All have excellent industry contacts and are keen to help students with their career ambitions.

Recent staff publications include Dr Paul Smith’s The Politics of Television Policy: The Introduction of Digital Television in Great Britain, Dr Helen Wood’s Talking with Television, Professor Tim O’ Sullivan’s The Cinema of Basil Dearden and Michael Relph (with Alan Burton) and Dr Stuart Price’s Brute Reality: Power, Discourse, and the Mediation of War, Margaret Montgomerie’s Screen Fictions and Discourses of Disability: Dodgy Discourse and the Moral Low Ground Continuum and Dr Scott Davidson’s Going Grey: The Mediation of Politics in an Ageing Society.

All staff are active researchers and recent articles in academic journals include Simon Mills ‘Cultural Anxiety 2.0’ in Media, Culture and Society (with Dave Everitt), Liz Bridgen’s ‘Emotional Labour and the Pursuit of the Personal Brand: Public Relations Practitioners’ Use of Social Media’ in the Journal of Media Practice and Andrew Tolson’s co-authored article ‘Belligerent Broadcasting and Makeover Television: Professional Incivility in Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares’ in the International Journal of Cultural Studies.

Joint degree options

• Film Studies (Joint Honours) BA (Hons)
• Marketing (Joint Honours)
• Drama Studies (Joint Honours) BA (Hons)
• English Language (Joint Honours) BA (Hons)
• English (Joint Honours) BA (Hons)
• Journalism (Joint Honours) BA (Hons)

Industry links and professional accreditation

Our excellent links with the creative industries means that students benefit from guest lectures from Google and top London PR and advertising agencies.

Work experience and placements

You can benefit from placement opportunities through our close links with BBC Radio Leicester, community media organisations and Leicester’s independent arts and cinema complex, Phoenix Square, along with employers in the media industries in the UK and abroad. During the second year, you will have the opportunity to apply to study abroad with the ERASMUS exchange programme. Previous destinations have included North America and Europe.

Graduate careers

Our recent graduates have on to work for Cosmopolitan, the BBC, CBeebies, MentornMedia (Question Time), Hewlett Packard and News International. Graduates have also pursued careers in both the public and private sector and have gone on to work in advertising, SEO, sales, TV production, journalism, independent media, film, teaching and public relations agencies. Some graduates choose to continue their education by researching the media and related subjects at postgraduate master’s and doctoral levels of study.

Fees and funding

UK/EU Full-time £9,000 Placement year £650 Part-time (Where available) 4 year course £5,925 per year 6 year course £3,950 per year Per module £988 per 15 credits International
Full-time £11,250 Placement year £750

For more information please take a look at our Fees and Funding| section.

Scholarships

Scholarships and bursaries are available to home undergraduate students studying on a full time basis. To see if you are eligible, take a look at the Fees and Funding| section of the website.

Facilities

Teaching on the programme takes place in lecture and seminar rooms equipped with Blu-Ray, DVD and high defi nition projection screens. Practical workshops are taught using the latest technology in our media labs, which are equipped with the latest Apple Pro and Apple iMac computers, with cinema screens running on the latest operating software and Adobe Creative Suite 6. Students on creative media modules have full access to a range of facilities, including: editing suites, TV studios, radio studios, dark rooms, blue and green screen studios and video production labs.