BA (Hons) Digital Media and Communications

Why choose this course?

  • Accredited by PRCA (Public Relations and Communications Association)
  • Work with a client to showcase your skills to employers
  • Study the media internationally & locally, alongside vocational skills

 

In today’s fast-paced media world, people with the ability to write, design, understand imagery and harness new technologies are in high demand. Join this group by developing your communications skills (both oral and written), learning to create and publish content across a broad range of formats. 

 

This course will equip you with a portfolio of practical skills as well as a theoretical and critical understanding of Media. Our industry-focused approach, combining theory and practice, will help build your confidence, give you the communication and technological skills required for the industry and help you plan your career. 

 

You’ll learn how the media works globally and nationally, how to build and edit brilliant websites and create a hard-hitting ad campaign. You can study public relations, celebrity culture and influencers or examine how the media represents diverse groups. Using industry standard software and equipment, our professionally experienced academics and researchers will help you develop skills across divergent platforms and for different audiences.

 

Your course is affiliated to the?Public Relations and Communications Association?(PRCA), one of Britain's top organisations for PR professionals giving you valuable internship and networking opportunities.

 

In the 2022 National Student Survey (NSS), our media degrees achieved an overall satisfaction rating of 82%. 85% of students reported that lecturers were good at explaining things and 82% of students (above the sector average) appreciated the chance to bring information and ideas together from different topics.