This degree requires a further two years of part-time study after successful completion of the Foundation Degree in Media and Business Applications. Currently only available to foundation degree students, who progress from the FD to the third year of the BA, this programme combines modules at undergraduate level 5 and level 6 in media, multimedia and management. The programme complements and builds upon the key concepts learnt during the Foundation Degree.
Students need to pass a total of 5 modules over the two years to achieve the BA Honours Media and Business Applications Degree. A minimum of 4 modules at level 6 must be taken, including a compulsory project.
Research Methods (compulsory module)
Plus 2 modules to continue theoretical and practical pathways, begun on the Foundation Degree:
| Practical Pathways: | Journalism | On the Air in the Digital Age |
| Screen-writing | Screen-writing: The Film Script | |
| Multimedia | Dynamic Web Communications | |
| Public Relations | Marketing Communications | |
| Theoretical Pathways: | Journalism | On the Air in the Digital Age |
| Television | Television Drama | |
| Cinema |
World Cinema or Gender and Sexuality in Cinema or Recent Developments in European Cinema |
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| Cultural Studies | Globalisation and Media Cultures |
BA Final Year Project (compulsory module)
Plus one module from the list above.
NB: There is the opportunity to take a level 5 module not previously covered on the Foundation Degree in year 3 so you can then proceed to the level 6 module in the final year. The list of level 5 modules is:
Effective Web-site Development (for Dynamic Web Communications)
Screen-writing: The 30-minute Script (for Screen-writing: The Film Script)
Film: Narrative and Genre (for World Cinema; Recent Developments in European Cinema; Gender and Sexuality in Cinema)
TV: Narrative and Genre (for TV Drama)
Cultural identity and the Media (for Globalisation and Media Cultures)