This popular course combines theoretical approaches to media with opportunities to learn practical media skills. You will learn from industry professionals and explore all aspects of media cultures, from social networking sites and lifestyle magazines to anti-globalisation movements and computer gaming.
The course is designed to offer you maximum flexibility, allowing you to design your own degree according to your interests. You can choose to do a general Media degree or to specialise in one of the following named pathways.
- BA (Hons) Media with Media Communications
This specialist pathway equips you with a combination of theoretical insight and practical skills relating to the broad field of public and professional communications. Encompassing examinations of advertising, journalism, public relations and aspects of the creative industries, the modules on the pathway develop digital and media literacy, writing, business and performance skills. - BA (Hons) Media with Film and Television
This pathway is aimed at those who have a strong interest in film and television or other small-screen forms. The film element begins with an introduction to key dimensions of film, going on to engage with a range of different academic approaches and to allow increasing specialisation in areas of particular interest. Study of the small screen focuses mainly on television, but also embraces the computer monitor and forms associated with it, notably games and interactive media. - BA (Hons) Media with Media Practices
The Media Practices pathway aims to develop skills that are transferable to a diverse range of employment contexts. It includes practical project-work in video and DVD-ROM production, and website design. It also engages with new forms of digital media production and distribution such as podcasting, blogging and content for mobile phones.
This course is taught by a team of eminent researchers. In the latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 85% of NTU Communication, Culture and Media research was assessed as world leading or international quality. For you this means that the course is informed by the latest thinking and you'll learn from people with a real passion for their subject.
Joint Honours
You can also combine Media with one or two other subjects as part of our Joint Honours programme.
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What will I study?
All students take the following core modules
Year One
- Approaches to Media and Culture
- Understanding Communications I: From Face-to-Face to Facebook
Year Two
- Researching and Theorising Media and Culture
- Working with the Media
- Understanding Communications II
Year Three
- The Dissertation
- Understanding Communications III
For full details of the modules available and details of what you will be able to study please download our module booklet 
What do you study?
You will be able to examine a wide range of media in ways which combine practice and theory. Key concepts will be introduced in order to enable you to make sense of the ever-changing culture in which we live, and you will examine the rapid transformations of the media landscape locally, nationally and globally.
A distinctive Working with the media module gives you the chance to meet and work with professionals from the media industry on a regular basis.
Teaching and assessment
This new degree is offered in a department which is rated as one of the leading media research centres in the UK. Classes consist mainly of lectures, seminars, workshops, and tutorials. Practical work takes place in our dedicated facilities. Where appropriate, you will also gain experience of working with specialist equipment in the Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism, based at the City site.
We try to use the widest possible range of assessment methods including essays, in-class tests, examinations, oral presentations and group projects.
Your future career
Equipped with the cutting-edge knowledge and skills offered by BA (Hons) Media, you may wish to apply for work in the media industries, as well as being able to deploy your skills in a wide range of other professional, commercial and community-based occupations. Examples of media-related areas in which recent NTU graduates have found work include:
- TV production
- media policy-making and administration in the public and private sectors
- PR, marketing, promotions, and advertising
- film production and distribution
- newspaper and magazine journalism
- research in the humanities or social sciences
- radio presenting.
Recent Media graduates have gone on to work in graduate level positions with the BBC, Sky, Brit Asia TV, Five TV, and IBM.
Through working on real-world projects commissioned by industry, studying the Working with the Media module, and opportunities to participate in events like GameCity, you will gain practical experience and develop professional contacts.
In addition to the practical work you will carry out as part of your studies, you will be assisted in finding short work experience opportunities within the region and beyond. Recent students have undertaken work placements with:
- the House of Commons
- the Refugee Council
- the Metropolitan Housing Trust
- Broadway Media Centre
- ABC Television (Chicago)
- the Nottinghamshire Racial Equality Council
- the Cannes International Film Festival.
Our students have produced many examples of excellent project work. For example:
- a thousand copies of a student video project were ordered by Nottingham City Council for use in the local community
- digital video time-capsules have been made for BBC television
- we have an arrangement with Sky Television to transmit student work judged to be of sufficiently high quality
- BBC Radio Nottingham has also invited our students to take part in storytelling projects.
You can apply for this course through the UCAS website.
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