Media, Communication, Cultures

You’ll build your CV as you work alongside practising media professionals to create the future of communications across multiple platforms in state-of-the-art learning spaces.

Engage with all forms of mass communication – the internet, social media, television, radio, popular music and cinema – on this dynamic course that critically explores cultural trends and media industries.

As part of your course, you’ll:

• Get hands-on to create photographic essays, blogs and podcasts

• Design a talk programme for a radio station

• Invent and pitch a lifestyle TV concept

• Design and create an online game and form an anti-racism campaign group

• Work with professionals from social media, marketing, TV and magazine production

• Graduate with a recognised degree and employable skills across all current and potential future media platforms

Career opportunities

You’ll open your mind to exciting new opportunities, allowing you to confidently pursue a career in almost any field, including:

• Writing

• Teaching

• Journalism

• Copywriting

• Business

• Marketing

• Research

• Publishing

The Northern heart of culture and the arts

You’ll be offered unique opportunities to gain work experience with the media, cultural and creative industries in Leeds, such as museums, art galleries, theatres, film production companies and recording studios that surround the city centre campus. You may also get involved in many regional events; for example, the Harrogate Film Festival, the Ilkley Literature Festival or the Leeds West Indian Carnival.

Building your future potential
As a student in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, you’ll be encouraged to think about your future career right from the start of your learning journey. Information and advice about relevant future career options will be built into the first year of your degree. During your second and third years of study, you’ll be able to choose modules with live brief learning challenges (real life projects designed by employers) and work placement opportunities.

Industry links
Take advantage of the special relationships we’ve developed with employers and cultural industries throughout the city and across the region. Students have completed placements in the editorial team at Hallmark Studios and with Peepal Tree Press – an internationally-renowned publisher based in the city.

You’ll have the chance to attend regular conferences, seminars and events organised by our Centre for Culture and the Arts, to collaborate with institutes and cultural organisations.

Why study the BA (Hons) Media Communication Cultures course at Leeds Beckett University?

• 95% of students on BA (Hons) Media Communication Cultures were positive about the way teaching staff explain things*

• We are ranked 15th in the UK for Media and Film Studies (The Guardian University Guide 2026)

• Leeds Beckett University placed top 50 in the UK for Communication & Media Studies (The Complete University Guide 2025)

• Applied Humanities practical module option and our guest lectures delivered by industry professionals will enable you to start building your experience

*National Student Survey 2025

<strong> Year 1 Core Modules: </strong>

• Understanding Social Media
• Culture, Media & Society
• Connecting with Audiences
• Researching Television
• Sound Studies
• Cinematic Identities: Gender, Class & Race

<strong> Year 2 Core Modules: </strong>

• Media: Past & Present, Where & When
• Media Theory
• Popular Music & the Moving Image
• Researching Media & Culture
• Content Creators: Media Skills for a Changing World
  In addition, choose from a list of Year 2 option modules. Please check our website for a full and up-to-date list

<strong> Year 3 Core Modules: </strong>

• Dissertation
  In addition, choose from a list of Year 3 option modules. Please check our website for a full and up-to-date list