Cultural and Media Studies BA

This interdisciplinary course allows you to explore cultural and media practices, institutions and histories across multiple subject areas, including literature, sociology, philosophy, film and media.

You'll learn to analyse images, texts, technologies and cultural practices in order to develop your understanding of a range of complex issues. You will be encouraged to develop a critical perspective on major challenges facing us in the globalising world today.

Through compulsory modules you'll be introduced to ways of analysing a range of different texts, including photographs, paintings, buildings, poems and advertisements. You will also choose from a wide range of optional modules which will give you the chance to examine issues such as: conflict and its cultural mediation, migration and multiculturalism; social activism and the possibility of utopian change; past and future technologies and their impact on our bodies and minds; ecology and our relation to other life forms; global communication networks and their impact on social relations.

Taught by expert researchers, you can choose to focus on digital media, film studies, news journalism, communication skills, promotional communication, and a range of other topics. You could even undertake a four-week work placement to gain hands-on experience in the communication and media industries.