Course summary

Foundation Year Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele. International Students For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. Applications for International Foundation Years are also handled by KUIC; please do not apply via UCAS as the University will not be able to process your application and you may still be charged the UCAS application fee. To find out more and to apply for an International Foundation Year, visit https://kuic.keele.ac.uk/ Digital Media Digital Media is a vibrant and crucial field that fuels social change and ignites creative expression in today’s world. Our Digital Media BA covers a diverse range of topics - from Data and Design to Social Media Cultures, and from Content Creation to Audience and User Research - offering you a comprehensive blend of critical, creative, and professional approaches. You will gain the critical tools, innovative insights, and cutting-edge techniques necessary to both understand and shape the ever-evolving digital media landscape throughout your career. Why choose this course?

• Our core modules use authentic assessment methods in the form of coursework, helping to develop your application of theory into practice

• Film Studies and Media at Keele: Top 10 in England for student positivity* NSS 2023 (Broad-based universities) *based on overall student satisfaction, which is an average score across 27 questions asked in the NSS

• Access to the Media Suite – gain practical skills using film, sound and image production facilities

• Critically analyse the evolution of digital media in society

• Enhance your career prospects with transferable skills in content creation, communication and the creative arts

• the study of critical theories related to digital media industries, technologies, and cultures;

• the analysis and research of digital platforms and content;

• and the hands-on creative practice of digital media content creation.