Course Content
Year 1 (at Portsmouth)
Screen, Media and Cultural Studies modules
Core modules in this year include:
- EPortfolio for Film and Television – 20 credits
- Global Cinema – 20 credits
- Introduction to Media Studies – 20 credits
- Journalism in Context – 20 credits
- Law for Journalists – 20 credits
- Reporting – 20 credits
There are no optional modules in this year.
Media and Journalism modules
Core modules in this year include:
- EPortfolio for Film and Television – 20 credits
- Global Cinema – 20 credits
- Introduction to Media Studies – 20 credits
- Journalism in Context – 20 credits
- Law for Journalists – 20 credits
- Reporting – 20 credits
There are no optional modules in this year.
Year 2 (at Portsmouth)
Screen, Media and Cultural Studies modules
Core modules in this year include:
- Media, Culture and National Identity – 20 credits
- Screen Media – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Creative Writing for Film – 20 credits
- Film Production Practices – 20 credits
- Finding Form – Fiction – 20 credits
- Gender and the Media – 20 credits
- Media Networks: Exploring Digital Culture – 20 credits
- Production: Camera and Editing – 20 credits
- Production: Short Film-Making – 20 credits
- Professional Experience – 20 credits
- Script Writing – 20 credits
- Student Enterprise – 20 credits
- Transmedia Narratives and Strategies – 20 credits
Media and Journalism modules
Core modules in this year include:
- Feature Writing and News Analysis – 20 credits
- Smartphone Journalism – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Factual Media Production – 20 credits
- Gender and the Media – 20 credits
- Investigative Journalism – 20 credits
- Press and Public Relations – 20 credits
- Production: Camera and Editing – 20 credits
- Professional Experience – 20 credits
- Propaganda – 20 credits
- Screen Media – 20 credits
- Social Journalism Theory – 20 credits
- Specialist Journalism – 20 credits
- Student Enterprise – 20 credits
Year 3 (at Edith Cowan University)
Screen, Media and Cultural Studies modules
Core modules in this year include:
- Audience Perception and Experience – 15 credits
- Industry and Community – 15 credits
- Personal and Professional Planning – 15 credits
- Media, Identity and Social Justice – 15 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Filmosophy – 15 credits
- Screen Practice 3: Art and Auteurs – 15 credits
- Screen Evolution – 15 credits
- Screen Practice 4: Production House – 15 credits
- Documentary, Technology and Experience – 15 credits
- New Media and Social Influence – 15 credits
- From Fiction to Film – 15 credits
Media and Journalism modules
Core modules in this year include:
- Audience Perception and Experience – 15 credits
- Industry and Community – 15 credits
- Personal and Professional Planning – 15 credits
- Media, Identity and Social Justice – 15 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Audio Storytelling – 15 credits
- Investigative Journalism – 15 credits
- Digital Media Activism – 15 credits
- Global Communications – 15 credits
- Convergent Digital Newsroom – 15 credits
- Visual Storytelling – 15 credits
- New Media and Social Influence – 15 credits
- Photojournalism and Editorial Practice – 15 credits
- Screen Practice 2: Factuals and Formats – 15 credits
Year 4 (at Portsmouth)
Screen, Media and Cultural Studies modules
Core modules in this year include:
- Final Project Communication and Media – 40 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Celebrity and Society – 20 credits
- Documentary Film-Making – 20 credits
Media and Journalism modules
Core modules in this year include:
- Final Project Communication and Media – 40 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Digital Media and Democracy – 20 credits
- Global Journalism and Human Rights – 20 credits
