Course summary

Choose your start date You have six opportunities to join this course throughout the year. About the course: This course aims to cultivate the necessary creative, critical and digital skills for professional success.

• Analyse, critique, and challenge traditional and contemporary perspectives within cultural studies and critical theory, while simultaneously engaging with current frameworks and practices in the media and communications sectors.

• Develop your ability to critique both traditional and latest theoretical frameworks, concepts and ideas to the advanced and specialist levels.

• Challenge traditional approaches to media and communications as you engage with a range of real-world case studies, including artificial intelligence-generated content, short-form video platforms and influencer culture.

• bringing theory into practice through hands-on, critical and creative media projects

• an interdisciplinary approach at the intersections of diverse media and communications-related disciplines, providing key transferable skills to navigate the global creative industries with agility and innovation

• personalised professional development, empowering you to find and develop your voice as a media professional as you prioritise your interests, skills and career goals, through opportunities for bespoke and personalised projects

• a collaborative ethos, in which you can explore and exchange ideas and knowledge with students from related courses and industry collaborators in a creative environment that fosters innovation and teamwork

• access to industry-standard equipment and facilities, and a multidisciplinary team of scholars, to explore and test new media technologies and emerging communication channels, and produce an industry-ready professional portfolio.