Media BA (Hons) top-up
Coventry, United Kingdom
BA
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
This course aims to develop your media skills across a range of platforms, including photography, television, film and visual communications.
Course Overview
This course will help you to understand the process of practical work, the theories that inform your work and the community of practice with which you will engage.
- You will have access to dedicated media spaces, edit suites and industry-focused radio, photography and television studios.
- You will have access to industry-standard professional equipment via our Media Loan Shop.
Why you should study this course
If you have already completed two years of diploma study, this course offers the opportunity to ‘top up’ your qualifications to degree level.
- You will have access to dedicated media spaces, edit suites and industry-focused radio, photography and television studios. You will also have access to high-standard professional media equipment via our Media Loan Shop, including prosumer media equipment (i.e. 4K and HD video cameras, DSLR cameras, tripods, audio equipment, lighting – Canon, JVC, Sony).
- You will build on your existing skills, knowledge and understanding, in order to produce a professional portfolio that represents who you are as a creative media practitioner. You will produce a number of pieces of work and one final major project which brings these skills together, thus developing a portfolio of work that you can use when looking for work after graduation.
- Overseas opportunities may also be available. In recent years our students have visited the Hong Kong Design Institute and worked with students there to create a pop-up degree show.
- Help in applying for professional experience, placement opportunities and live professional projects is available. Students have previously been placed at Regional BBC, Creative City, Rolls-Royce and BBC Three. Placement and professional experience opportunities are subject to a competitive application process, availability and additional costs.
With this course, you will develop your media skills across a range of platforms, including photography, television, film and visual communications.
This final year course involves working with your peers as well as individually, to build up your portfolio, and working to produce a final project. To work towards becoming an all-round practitioner, you’ll also learn how to manage creative projects. Upon successful completion, you will have the skills and demonstrative ability to succeed in the job market and real world environments – which is the fundamental aim of the course.
Final Year
Modules:
- Media in Context
- Exploring Media Practice 1
- Media Project Research and Development
- Academic English for the Arts
- Exploring Media Practice 2
- The Major Media Project
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
You will be treated as a professional from the moment that you arrive on the course.
During the course, you will learn and develop the creative, technical and transferable skills you are likely to need to thrive as a professional when you graduate. These include creative skills and knowledge, entrepreneurial and management skills, critical skills, presentation and writing skills, as well as interpersonal and management skills.
Where our graduates work
Previous graduates have gone on to pursue careers in established roles within the media industries (camera operators, editors, etc.) or become freelance media producers. Others have undertaken the appropriate qualifications to become teachers in schools and colleges and some have gone on to work with community arts organisations or as arts administrators.
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