Media and Communication

From television and radio to streaming, social media, gaming, and artificial intelligence, media are constantly evolving — reshaping the ways we connect, work, and understand the world around us.

This course will give you theoretical insight into media and communications as well as the opportunity to gain practical experience of creative media making. You’ll study key theories and debates about the role of media in society, methods to research their application and also have the opportunity to gain hands-on skills in content creation, storytelling, and digital production.

This blend of critical understanding and research skills coupled with the opportunity for creative practice will empower you to both analyse and produce innovative, research-informed content.

You’ll develop:

• Strong research and analytical skills to understand audiences, industries, and culture.

• Creative and technical abilities to design and deliver professional media content.

• Confident communication skills to express ideas clearly across multiple formats and platforms.

By the time you graduate, you’ll be equipped for a wide range of careers across the media and communications industries — from journalism, public relations, and marketing to digital media, production, and beyond.

• Designed with your employability in mind, this course will teach you research and communication skills, creativity, and production techniques.

• Select a route through this degree in Creative Writing, Drama, English Literature, Film Studies, History or Journalism. These carefully chosen routes will complement and enrich your understanding of your main subject, alongside broadening your skillset to give you a wider range of career paths upon graduation.

• Access a range of multimillion-pound facilities, including editing suites, TV studios, radio studios, dark rooms, blue and green screen studios and video production laboratories.

• Gain valuable international experience as part of your studies with our DMU Global programme. Previous Media and Communication students have immersed themselves in Hollywood’s fan culture, learned about Berlin’s fascinating media history and explored TV archives in New York.

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Course Modules

Year one

Block 1: Media, Culture and everyday Life

Block 2: Media: Identities and Representations

Block 3: Creative Industries Practice 1

Block 4: Media Industries: National and Global Perspectives

Year two

Block 1: Media Audiences and Psychology

Block 2: Digital Cultures and Artificial Intelligence

Block 3: Public Relations

Block 4: Creative Industries Practice 2

Year three

Block 1: Global Communications and Strategic Advertising Management OR Media Discourse: Global Events

Block 2: Writing for the Screen OR Paranormal Media

Block 3: Sport and the Media OR Gender and TV Fictions OR continue with the study route selected in the first and second year:

Film Studies: British Cinema

Journalism: Music, Film and Entertainment Journalism

Creative Writing: Creative Misbehaviour

English Literature: World Englishes

History: The World on Display

Drama: Performance, Identity and Society

Block 4: Negotiated Project

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