Course summary
This cutting-edge degree programme that will help you to understand how we live, interact, connect and create within the transformations brought about by new digital media, culture and communications, preparing you for a changing future in a range of sectors. Placing you at the forefront of the big changes facing us today, this programme will provide you with the knowledge and skills required for understanding key transformations in digital media, culture and communication. Working across disciplines, and developing your own insights and ideas, you will be guided through resources that will help you to make sense of how our lives and experiences are shaped by these digital developments. You will learn to assess and evaluate digital materials, to put specific events into context and to think creatively when communicating your ideas in practice. This programme focuses upon the way that digital media are transforming and explores the implications these shifts have for communication, culture and society. By situating these changes within wider shifts in media, culture and communication, this programme will challenge you to understand and respond directly to digital transformations. This programme will develop and deepen your understanding of how we live, interact, communicate and create within digital media and digital cultures. You will be active in working with academics who are researching and developing new perspectives on these problems, and engaging in dialogue on how we might shape our digital futures. You will explore how the digital impacts on our lives and also how we can use digital tools to communicate and create cultural forms ourselves. On the programme you will explore a wide range of aspects digital media, culture and communication: from our personal identities through to the organisations we occupy, the environmental and geopolitical futures we imagine, the connections and divisions between people, the types of consumption we practice, the way we connect and interact, the impact of artificial intelligence on our decisions, through to the way we tell stories, realise ideas or create content. On this degree you will analyse digital developments whilst also thinking about how you can use those developments to create and communicate your ideas. Positioning you for a future career across a range of different sectors, by the end of the degree you will be able to understand, respond critically and think creatively about a range of key developments in digital media, culture and communication.
How to apply
This course has limited vacancies, and is no longer accepting applications from some students. See the list below for where you normally live, to check if you’re eligible to apply.
EU
Wales
England
International
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Republic of Ireland
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
- Course code:
- L391
- Institution code:
- Y50
- Campus name:
- Main Site
- Campus code:
- -
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - Not accepted
A level - ABB
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - DDM
Access to HE Diploma - D: 30 credits M: 15 credits
Scottish Higher
Scottish Advanced Higher
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 34 points
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (first teaching September 2015) - A - B
Extended Project - C
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal - D3, M2, M2
OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma - DDM
T Level
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
English language requirements
Undergraduate English Language requirements
https://www.york.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/applying/entry/english-language/
Student Outcomes
There is no data available for this course. For further information visit the Discover Uni website.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
Republic of Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
EU | £23700 | Year 1 |
England | £9250 | Year 1 |
Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
Channel Islands | £9250 | Year 1 |
International | £23700 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Provider information
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD
Clearing contact details
Clearing Enquiries
01904 234868