Course summary

Our exciting BSc Media and Communication degree takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of media and communication, and is essential for making sense of how power and influence work in today’s complex, turbulent world. You will acquire a thorough understanding of both historical and contemporary developments across a number of key media sectors including the press, broadcasting, film, advertising and digital media. Key themes covered include political communication, misinformation, persuasion, social inequality, gender, race, and sexuality, to name but a few. On our Media and Communication degree you will gain a wide range of specialist analytical and practical skills relevant to many jobs that involve working with the media and communication industries and beyond, where the knowledge and deep insight our degree provides makes a real difference. You will benefit from our unique connections with the communication and media sector and our reputation for socially relevant, evidence-based, research that has real impact on public knowledge. The broad scope of the course is designed to enable you to work in a range of different fields of communication and media, and adapt flexibly to a rapidly changing environment where critical understanding and analytical skills are of key importance.