Course summary

Our BA Digital Media, Arts and Entrepreneurship offers you the chance to combine the study of digital media with critically informed attention to the entrepreneurial skills you need to work in the field of contemporary art and culture. Our world today is increasingly digital. We shape our identity alongside social media influencers and may know our city’s iconic places through location-aware apps. We are learning that algorithms are embedded with biases around race, class, gender and sexuality embedded which need to be challenged. This degree will give you the focus to explore and question our digital world, while also engaging directly with digital technologies and practice. You will gain applied knowledge and aptitude in areas such as:

• cultural policy

• freelance working

• managing creative organisations

• curatorial practice

• PR and marketing

• social media strategy

• digital design

• video editing

• working with data.

• Birkbeck was ranked as one of the top four universities in the UK for its Art and Design research in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.

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• Our Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies offers an extensive portfolio of internationally respected courses that engage with the latest ideas and techniques in media and cultural theory, arts policy and management, film and television studies, journalism, creative marketing and digital media.

• Attend our dynamic programme of seminars, events and guest lectures organised by affiliated research centres and networks such as Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture, the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image and the Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology.

• Make yourself at home in our Bloomsbury campus, which includes facilities such as the award-winning Birkbeck Cinema, the Peltz Gallery, and computer labs equipped with video editing, print layout and web design software packages.

• Learn from leading academic researchers in the field such as Scott Rodgers, Joel McKim, Rebekah Cupitt, Silke Arnold-de Simine, Lina Džuverović, Robert Topinka, Sophie Hope and Professor Tim Markham. Acquire up-to-date skills and knowledge from experienced industry practitioners at the heart of London's global media industry.