MEDIA AND SOCIOLOGY B.A (Hons)

Media and Sociology is a distinctive combined degree which enables you to explore the sociological implications of social media, popular culture, and the mass media, whilst offering opportunities to engage in creative media practice such as film-making and photography.

With 24/7 access to facilities and support from an engaged community of academics specialising in cultural studies, sociological and media theory, the degree will enable you to analyse society and contemporary media cultures and to produce critically-informed cultural artefacts of your own.

You will attend lectures led by an interdisciplinary team of experts in their field, participate in seminars, and get hands-on experience of media production including pre and post production techniques. You will have access to media production facilities and the opportunity to try a range of media forms including photography, digital video, magazine production, news making and social media.

The media modules combine a distinctive balance of theory and practice so you can develop as a critical and thoughtful practitioner. You will study the role of media in society, the impact of the political economy on media content and the relationship between content and audiences. You will analyse popular cultural forms such as TV, memes, film and news, think about their meaning in contemporary social life and explore your ideas through media production.

The compulsory sociology modules provide you with a grounding in the key areas of the discipline: inequalities, social theory, and research methods. You will cover a wide range of topics including families, health, activism and protest, social media, globalisation, and urban life. Studying sociology will enable you to think independently, critically, and imaginatively about the issues that shape our everyday lives and our futures.