Course Content
Foundation year
Core modules in this year include:
- Academic Skills - 20 credits
- Introduction to Filmmaking - 20 credits
- Introduction to Production Skills - 20 credits
- Media in Context - 20 credits
- Writing for the Media: Creative Writing - 20 credits
- Writing for the Media: Journalism - 20 credits
Year 1
Core modules in this year include:
- Future Production - 20 credits
- Global Screens - 20 credits
- Introduction to Media Studies - 20 credits
- Post Production - Editing - 20 credits
- Understanding Film Production - 20 credits
- Writing for the Film and TV Industries - 20 credits
Year 2
Core modules in this year include:
- Film Production Practices – 20 credits
- Finding Form - Fiction – 20 credits
- Media Networks: Exploring Digital Culture – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Broadcast Radio and Podcasting - 20 credits
- Factual Media Production - 20 credits
- Film Curation - 20 credits
- Film Sound Production - 20 credits
- Production: Camera and Editing - 20 credits
- Screen Media - 20 credits
- Film, Media and Communication Study Exchange - 60 credits
- Production: Short Film-Making - 20 credits
- Transmedia Narratives and Strategies - 20 credits
- Engaged Citizenship Through Interdisciplinary Practice - 20 credits
- Film and Ethics - 20 credits
- Professional Experience - 20 credits
- Student Enterprise - 20 credits
Placement year (optional)
- current research and professional practice
Year 3
Core modules in this year include:
- Professional Industry Skills – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Independent Creative Project - 40 credits
- Practical Video Project - 40 credits
- Digital Media and Democracy - 20 credits
- Global Journalism and Human Rights - 20 credits
- Marketing Movies - 20 credits
- Documentary Film-Making - 20 credits
- Magazines: Print Media in A Digital World - 20 credits
- Media Fan Cultures - 20 credits
- Self Promotion - 20 credits
