BA (Hons) Media and Communication

The course looks at the media’s increasing reach and influence, providing you with the knowledge and skills to make sense of this dramatically and swiftly changing sector. Thanks to our close industry links, you’ll have the chance to undertake valuable work-based learning while on placement. We’re proud that, based on recent research carried out by The Times, we’re in the top seven courses in the country for media and communication. We like to think we’re getting even better. As one of our students, Shaheen Abdouramane, says, “The course is extremely broad and is adaptable to suit the path you wish to take, whether it’s a media production, cultural studies, gender, race, journalism, advertising or a mixture of all of them.

Foundation Year

• Academic Development
• Social Media Project
• Ways of Looking
• Narrative and Creativity
• Group Film Project
• Professional Development: Mental Wealth

Year 1

• Documentary 1: Documentary and representation
• Aesthetics and Technologies 1: Practice as research
• Media Cultures
• Mental Wealth – Professional Life: Agency 1
• Narrative 1: Narrative fiction
• Convergent Media Industries

Year 2

• Documentary 2
• Employment and Enterprise
• Narrative 2: Advanced Narrative
• Mental Wealth – Professional Life: Agency 2
• Digital Research Methods
• Photographing the City
• European and World Cinema
• Celebrity and Influencer Marketing

This course offers the opportunity for year-long placement between years two and three. If you choose to take this option, you’ll spend your third year on a placement with a relevant company or organization, adding valuable practical experience to your growing academic knowledge. The extra placement year means it will take four years to complete your studies, instead of three.

Year 3

• Final Project Development
• Final Project Completion
• Aesthetics and Technologies 2: Professional Practice
• Mental Wealth – Professional Life: Freelancing at UEL
• PR, Promotion and Publicity
• Content Design and Execution
• Understanding Digital Cultures
• Transmedia and Digital Futures

Employability

This course equips you with an attractive combination of academic rigor, versatility, and practical skills. Added to this, you’ll gain the specialist knowledge you need to work in a variety of media careers. Our students have gone on to jobs in television, film, journalism, publishing companies, advertising, and public relations as well as careers in teaching and education. Our course is also an excellent stepping stone to postgraduate study and research, including UEL’s Ph.D. and master’s programs, or to further training in other areas such as communications management, marketing, marketing communications, education, and law. As one of our graduates says, “My course at UEL gave me just the varied academic background I needed for my MA in Communications Management.”Official government statistics underline our success when it comes to preparing you for the world of work. According to Unistats, 85 percent of our students are either in employment or undertaking further study within six months of completing their degree.