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BA(Hons) Broadcast Media

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Awarded by the University of Brighton

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UCAS Code: P314

This course provides students who have completed a Foundation Degree programme in media production the opportunity to develop a range of critical, creative, technical and professional skills in their chosen specialist discipline area (radio, television or film) relevant to entering employment within the broadcasting industry at graduate level. The course also allows students to focus and specialise in a specific media production role, such as director, producer, editor, camera operator, in the second semester. This ensures that they graduate with a relevant showreel, which demonstrates their portfolio of media skills. The course facilitates a constant engagement with broadcasting companies, media professionals, and industry practitioners, who contribute to the development and the delivery of the course.

Duration & attendance: One Year full-time with an option for part-time study over two years. 

Distance Learning: No

Location: University Centre Hastings

Delivering Institution: University of Brighton

Typical Entry Requirements: Foundation Degree Broadcast Media

Subject areas

All modules are practice based and utilise industry standard hardware and software. The course and the modules have all been designed to fuse and interrelate the theoretical and practical elements of the Broadcast Media field. The combination of industry standard equipment, teaching inputs from industry professionals, links with major broadcast media organisations and the structure of our assessments will allow students to experience many of the conditions of the industry so that they will graduate with relevant skills and have realistic expectations of the types of employment available to them.

Career opportunities

Elements of the course aim to support students in developing their own business ideas and freelance skills. Students are introduced to different working approaches in the Broadcast Media industry to enable them to follow careers as either media researchers or within media content production. The course also aims to provide the students with the necessary academic and intellectual ability to pursue post-graduate study. The tight alignment between theory and practice ensures that the students are prepared to enter practice-based Masters or practice-led doctorates.

Syllabus

How to apply - undergraduate

Email: cmisadmissions@brighton.ac.uk

Tel: 01273 642428

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