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Introduction
Why choose this course?
Key features:
Designed with your employability in mind, this course includes modules focusing on media industries, digital cultures and new media.
Select a route through this degree in Creative Writing, Drama, English Language, 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.
Benefit from our close links with local media partners including BBC Radio Leicester, Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre, and community media organisations.
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.
Benefit from Education 2030, where a simplified ‘block learning’ timetable means you will study one subject at a time and have more time to engage with your learning, receive faster feedback and enjoy a better study-life balance.
Overview
The media and communication industry has a widespread influence on the world around us, and this degree course helps enable you to be a part of that revolution.
By studying both the theory and practice of media and communications, this course can equip you with the skills and insights required to be successful in the media environment.
This can enable you to progress into diverse careers in sectors such as PR, journalism, marketing, entertainment, international relations, politics and education.
A modern focus in the teaching of this course enables students to adapt to changes and developments in industry and proficiently use the most up-to-date technology.
Modules
Year one
• Block 1: Media: Identities and Representations
• Block 2: Media Industries
• Block 3: Media, Culture and Society OR you can select to study one route from the list below:
Film Studies: Disney, Warner Bros and the Film Studio
Journalism: Understanding Journalism
English Language: Evolving Language
Creative Writing: Writers Salon
English Literature: Introduction to Drama: Shakespeare
History: Global Cities
Drama: Shifting Stages
• Block 4: New Media: Website Design and Coding
Year two
• Block 1: Digital Cultures
• Block 2: Streaming Cultures OR New Media: Creative Project
• Block 3: Global Subcultures and Music OR Public Relations and Strategic Communication OR continue with the route selected in the first year:
Film Studies: Screen Archives
Journalism: Beyond News
English Language: Sociolinguistics
Creative Writing: Story Craft
English Literature: Digital Humanities
History: Humans and the Natural World
Drama: Theatre Revolutions
• Block 4: Researching Media and Communication
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
English Language: Language, Gender and Sexuality
Creative Writing: Creative Misbehaviour
English Literature: World Englishes
History: The World on Display
Drama: Performance, Identity and Society
• Block 4: Dissertation
Entry Criteria
ENTRY REQUIRED DOCUMENTS
Home Office Share Code
For EU students only.
IF no Qualification
Please provide CV with at least 2 years of work experience, and employee reference letter.
Entry criteria
Normally 104 UCAS points from at least two A-levels, or
BTEC National Diploma/ Extended Diploma at DMM
Plus, five GCSEs at grade 4 or above, including English or equivalent.
Alternative qualifications include:
Pass in the QAA-accredited Access to HE with English GCSE required as a separate qualification
We will normally require students to have had a break from full-time education before undertaking the Access course.
International Baccalaureate: 24+ points
T Levels Merit
Portfolio Required : No
Interview Required: No
Mature students
We welcome applications from mature students with non-standard qualifications and recognise all other equivalent and international qualifications.
English language
If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.0 overall with 5.5 in each band (or equivalent) when you start the course is essential. English language tuition, delivered by our British Council-accredited Centre for English Language Learning, is available both before and throughout the course if you need it.
Contextual offer
To make sure you get fair and equal access to higher education, when looking at your application, we consider more than just your grades. So if you are eligible, you may receive a contextual offer. Find our more about contextual offers.
Assessment
ASSESSMENT METHODS
1. INTERNAL ENGLISH TEST if you don't have an English accredited certificate
2. Academic Interview
Teaching
On this course, you will benefit from Education 2030 - DMU’s new way of delivering courses. Through block teaching, you will focus on one subject at a time instead of several at once.
Students are taught via a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops, screenings, independent study and tutorials.
Assessment
Students are assessed via different methods including essays, reports, blogs, portfolios of practical and critical work, seminar presentations (individual and group), dissertation, and reflective journals.
Academic expertise
Recent staff publications include Dr Paul Smith’s The Politics of Television Policy: The Introduction of Digital Television in Great Britain, Dr Helen Wood’s Talking with Television, Professor Tim O’ Sullivan’s The Cinema of Basil Dearden and Michael Relph (with Alan Burton) and Dr Stuart Price’s Brute Reality: Power, Discourse, and the Mediation of War, Margaret Montgomerie’s Screen Fictions and Discourses of Disability: Dodgy Discourse and the Moral Low Ground Continuum and Dr Scott Davidson’s Going Grey: The Mediation of Politics in an Ageing Society.
All staff are active researchers and recent articles in academic journals include Simon Mills ‘Cultural Anxiety 2.0’ in Media, Culture and Society (with Dave Everitt) and Andrew Tolson’s co-authored article ‘Belligerent Broadcasting and Makeover Television: Professional Incivility in Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares’ in the International Journal of Cultural Studies.
Career Opportunities
Placements
Work placements are offered as part of this course through DMU Careers Team, and can boost your skills and experience while studying, as well as improving your chances of gaining a graduate level job.
We have links with organisations both in the UK and internationally, and the placements team will help you find a placement to suit your interests and aspirations.
Media and Communication students at DMU have taken part in work experience placements at a number of local and national companies, including DMU, HBO and Tempur Sealy International.
You can also gain valuable, industry-relevant experience by taking part in the Demon Media group, featuring The Demon magazine, Demon FM radio station, Demon TV and The Demon website. The Media and Communication Society, Film Society and Media Discourse Group also give the opportunity to add to your knowledge and experience.
DMU Global
Our innovative international experience programme DMU Global aims to enrich studies, broaden cultural horizons and develop key skills valued by employers.
Through DMU Global, we offer an exciting mix of overseas, on-campus and online international experiences, including the opportunity to study or work abroad for up to a year.
Media and Communications students visited the Paley Center for Media in New York which houses digital archives, with 150,000 pieces of video footage from as early as the 1940s and radio materials from as far back as the 1920s.
Students have also immersed themselves in fan culture, having visited internationally renowned fan convention WonderCon, and even met celebrities on the red carpet of a film premiere in Hollywood, California.
Graduate careers
Media and Communications graduates have gone on to work for Cosmopolitan, the BBC, CBeebies, Mentorn Media.
In addition, graduates have pursued careers in the public and private sectors and have gone on to work in advertising, SEO, TV production, journalism, independent media, film, teaching and public relations. These are all professions where knowledge of the media and good, critical communication skills are valued.
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