School of Media Course Cards

School of Media Course Cards 2015/16

Fd (Arts) Broadcast Journalism

UCAS code: P500 • Full-time: 2 years • Location: City of Wolverhampton College Entry requirements: Our typical entry level would be 80 points with a minimum of 60 from either one or more A2/ Advanced GCEs or VCEs, a VCE double award or equivalent qualification.

• Contact: wlv.ac.uk/media or tel: 0800 953 3222.

Outline Fd (Arts) Broadcast Journalism has been structured to provide you with the opportunity to acquire a broad range of technical and research skills necessary to work in the broadcasting and journalism industries, together with the critical and analytical perspectives that will enable you to become a successful reflective practitioner. You will study writing and presenting, digital production and broadcast news.

You will also gain specialist skills in using media production technologies, systems and techniques in our state-of-the-art media suite complete with industry standard equipment including: • Television studio with chroma key facilities and multi-camera operation • Radio studio with professional scheduling software • Avid Unity networked editing system – the industry’s choice • 20 Avid edit suites running Avid Express, Avid FX and Pro Tools Software • The latest mini DV cameras, tripods, lighting kits, portable monitors, steadicam and audio equipment to loan • Avid Academic Partnership accreditation providing industry standard training and support.

Typical modules may include: Year 1: Professional Writing and Presenting; Digital Production Skills; Fundamentals of Broadcast Journalism and Media Law; Audio-Visual Literacy.

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Year 2: Professional Practice and Business Planning; Creative Digital Production Skills; Project Management; Broadcast News: Content, Industry and Audiences.

The Foundation Degree was everything they said it would be.

We wrote and recorded our own news bulletins, which included a thirty second sound clip which we recorded ourselves. I felt like a real reporter. Everything we did had a practical element to it.

The assignments were set up so that each piece of work would be added to a show reel, to present to prospective employers. At the end of the course I was so pleased with how well I had done; I decided to stay on to complete my BA (Hons).

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Graduate, BA (Hons) Broadcasting and Journalism

Careers Successful completion of the course will allow you to progress onto the BA (Hons) Broadcasting and Journalism one-year top-up degree which will award you with a full BA (Hons) degree.

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BA (Hons) Broadcasting and Journalism

UCAS code: PP35 • Full-time: 3 years • Part-time: 5/6 years • Location: City Campus Entry requirements: Our typical offer would be 200 UCAS points normally achieved over a minimum of either two or more A-levels, an AVCE double award, BTEC National Diploma or other equivalent qualification. GCSE English and Maths grade C or above (or equivalent). • Contact: wlv.ac.uk/media or tel: 0800 953 3222.

Outline BA (Hons) Broadcasting and Journalism provides an exciting, challenging and cutting-edge opportunity for you to confidently experiment with and develop your broadcasting and journalistic writing and production skills. The course offers a disciplined engagement with the theoretical debates surrounding the industry on a global basis, alongside practical teaching of the craft skills required of all entrants to employment in the broadcasting and journalism professions.

You will develop the ability to communicate effectively via a range of multi-media and digital platforms. You will also be encouraged to engage in independent critical thinking and judgement and to use your imagination, creativity, organisation and ability to work to deadlines, in the creation of journalistic items for broadcast/publication. Throughout the course, you will develop a range of subject specific and transferable skills, including higher order communication skills, IT awareness and digital literacy, which are all of immense value in graduate employment.

You will also gain specialist skills in using media production technologies, systems and techniques in our state-of-the-art media suite complete with industry standard equipment including: • Television studio with chroma key facilities and multi-camera operation • Radio studio with professional scheduling software • Avid Unity networked editing system – the industry’s choice • 20 Avid edit suites running Avid Express, Avid FX and Pro Tools Software • The latest mini DV cameras, tripods, lighting kits, portable monitors, steadicam and audio equipment to loan • Avid Academic Partnership accreditation providing industry standard training and support.

Careers

Course content: Year 1: Introduces you to key issues such as how broadcasting and journalism fit into our world today and the ethical and legal requirements of working as a broadcaster or journalist. You will also develop the practical writing and technical skills required to produce items for broadcast or publication.

Year 2: Allows you to specialise in your primary area of interest; be that journalism, broadcasting or a theoretical engagement.

Year 3: Requires you to produce a major piece of theoretical or practical work, alongside continued specialisation in your chosen area of interest.

The broadcasting and communications industries are continually growing and this course will enable you to gain an extensive portfolio of skills highly valued by potential employers. The programme will help you move confidently into a suitable career in broadcast journalism or other related informational, communications or creative industries work, maybe with a local/regional/national news or creative organisation, or media production company. You may also continue your studies to postgraduate level with our MA Contemporary Media.

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BA (Hons) Film Studies

UCAS code: P303 • Full-time: 3 years • Full-time: 3 years • Part-time: 5/6 years • Location: City Campus • Entry requirements: Our typical offer would be 200 UCAS points normally achieved over a minimum of either two or more A-levels, an AVCE double award, BTEC National Diploma or other equivalent qualification.

• Contact: wlv.ac.uk/film or tel: 0800 953 3222.

Outline BA (Hons) Film Studies can be studied either on its own as a specialist degree, or jointly with another subject. Choose to study it with one of the following: Creative and Professional Writing, UCAS code: WP83, English, UCAS code: WQ63, Media and Cultural Studies, UCAS code: WPQ3, Philosophy, UCAS code: PV35 or Media and Communication Studies, UCAS code: PWH6.

Watching and talking about films is part of our everyday lives, while going to the cinema is an important social activity. This course offers you the chance to study Hollywood, British, European and World cinema, analysing individual film texts and relating them to historical and social contexts. You will study the history of the cinema as well as examining representations of class, ethnicity and gender and examining the film industry.

Film genres and movements will also be studied together with film as an artistic and industrial product.

Throughout the course you will develop core skills that you can draw on in any career including excellent written and verbal communication, presentation skills and working effectively with others. You will also gain specialist abilities in analysing visual texts, understanding the language of film and using appropriate terminology for the film industry.

You will have the experience of having lectures in a real, working public cinema, the Light House Media Centre, which boasts two purpose-built cinemas with full size HD and 35mm screenings. This means you get to see films as they should be seen, in their original intended context, format and aspect ratio. Situated close to the University campus, Light House Media Centre is one of the Midlands’ top media centres and includes an exhibition gallery.

Typical modules may include: Year 1: Film: Storytelling and Adaptation; Film Origins; Raiders of the Lost Archives; Film: Textual Analysis Film and Genre: From Star Wars to Sin City.

Year 2: Representing the Real: from Documentary Film to Reality TV; Film in Europe: The 1930s to the 1970s; Directors and Stars; Film and TV Representations: Race, Gender and Sexuality on Screens; Bollywood and Beyond; Post-Classical Hollywood.

Year 3: Film: Independents and Industry; Contemporary French; Cinema; European Cinema Today; Screening Contemporary Britain: Film and TV Drama; Once upon a Time in the Non-West; Cuts, Cults and Classics: Screening Spectacular Cinema; Screening Science: from Movie Monsters to TV Medics.

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Studying Film and Media at the Careers University of Wolverhampton was an enjoyable and rewarding A degree in Film Studies will enable you to enter a wide range of careers including arts administration, journalism, advertising and the media. You may also continue your experience. Knowledgeable, supportive staff, a well structured studies to postgraduate level with our Master’s programme and PhD in Film Studies. course, excellent academic Contact resources and a great purpose Email: arts@wlv.ac.uk built cinema for screenings all contributed towards a positive /WLVArts learning environment.

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Graduate, BA (Hons) Film Studies and Media and Communication Studies

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BA (Hons) Media and Communication Studies

UCAS code: PP93 • Full-time: 3 years • Part-time: 5/6 years • Location: City Campus Entry requirements: Our typical offer would be 200 UCAS points normally achieved over a minimum of either two or more A-levels, an AVCE double award, BTEC National Diploma or other equivalent qualification.

• Contact: wlv.ac.uk/media or tel: 0800 953 3222.

Outline BA (Hons) Media and Communication Studies can be studied either on its own as a specialist degree, or jointly with one of the following: Film Studies, UCAS code: PWH6, English Language, UCAS code: QP3H, Creative and Professional Writing, UCAS code: WP8H or Politics, UCAS code: LP23.

You will explore a variety of forms of media and their impact upon how we communicate. Forms of media range from radio, TV and newspapers to multimedia platforms, mobile phones, iPods, iPlayers. Students will learn about the ways in which media shape both our understanding of the world, and our perceptions of our place in that world. They will also develop some understanding of the role and responsibility of the media, and the power of communication, in a rapidly-changing and multicultural society.

The course allows students to investigate the relationship between forms of media, and their producers and consumers, in order to discover how communication processes operate in a variety of social contexts. Media industry seminars are organised every year to enable students to meet with media practitioners and discuss current media issues with them. Students will also have the opportunity to undertake practical work, including the possibility of industry placement in companies such as Light House Media Centre, Express and Star newspaper, Radio WM, Wolf FM, and the University’s Press Office thereby gaining valuable workplace experience.

Typical modules may include:

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Year 1: Media, Culture and Society; Visual Studies; Key Concepts in Media, Communication and Culture, Media, Politics and Power; Digital Film and Media Production; Popular Culture.

Meeting journalists and presenters such as Sameena Ali Khan from Central News, Robin Powell from Sky News, and Alison Marsh who had worked at BBC Midlands Today was an absolutely fantastic experience.

It was really inspiring to meet so many people who had made their mark on the media industry.

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Graduate, BA (Hons) Media and Communication Studies

Year 2: Issues in Communication Studies; Analysing Media Texts; Research Methods; Media, Communication and Ethics; A History of Television; Popular Media; Digital Film and Media Production.

Year 3: Persuasion and Influence; Global Media, Global Culture; Broadcast Journalism 2; Media and Sport; Communication and Social Responsibility; New Media; Television Soap Opera; Independent Study – Professional Practice; Business and Community Link.

Careers This course will provide you with a wide range of subject-specific and transferable skills to give you a competitive advantage in the graduate employment market. Previous graduates have gone on to work in the media industry (production and presentation), journalism, public relations, corporate communications and local government, as well as postgraduate study. You may also continue your studies to postgraduate level with our MA Contemporary Media or MA Popular Culture.

Media and Cultural Studies Students visit the Land of Lost Content - a museum of British popular culture

BA (Hons) Media and Cultural Studies

UCAS code: PL36 • Full-time: 3 years • Part-time: 5/6 years • Location: City Campus Entry requirements: Our typical offer would be 200 UCAS points normally achieved over a minimum of either two or more A-levels, an AVCE double award, BTEC National Diploma or other equivalent qualification.

• Contact: wlv.ac.uk/media or tel: 0800 953 3222.

Outline BA (Hons) Media and Cultural Studies can be studied either on its own as a specialist degree, or jointly with Sociology, UCAS code: PL33 or Film Studies, UCAS code: WPQ3.

The course involves an investigation of how the media have become an important part of our everyday lives. This course focuses on the inter-relationship between media and culture at a local, national and global level. Media and cultural studies provides an opportunity to reflect upon the significance of a wide range of media forms and cultural practices such as: film, television and new digital media, as well as leisure and fashion. Students will learn how social divisions such as: gender, ethnicity, nationality, age and sexuality are constructed through media discourses and cultural practices.

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This degree remains an excellent, exciting and inspiring course informed by current developments in the field and taught by an extremely dedicated and scholarly team. (…) I remain impressed with the Television Studies modules at both levels, informed by timely research, a varied lecture programme and inspiring assessment tasks.

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External examiner’s report, 2012

The focus of the course is on popular culture. You will critically engage with a wide range of different media forms and cultural practices, such as: music, fashion, advertising, popular television and social network sites. Through this you will be able to understand and contextualise your own cultural experiences and media consumption. You will also explore the ways in which various media forms and cultural practices represent, and therefore inform our understanding of different senses of identity such as: nationality, class, ethnicity, sexuality, gender and age.

Typical modules may include: Year 1: Media, Culture and Society; Visual Studies; Key Concepts in Media Communications and Culture; Media Politics and Power; Introduction to Digital Film and Media Production; Popular Culture.

Year 2: British Cultural Experiences; Investigating Culture; A History of Television; Media Communications and Ethics; Film and Television Representations (Race; Gender and Sexuality); Popular Television; Body, Sexuality and Identity; Representing the Real – From Documentary to Reality TV. Year 3: Exploring Gender Experience; Media Consumerism and the Body; Media, Religion and Ethics; Television Soap Opera; New Media; Media and Sport; Global Media, Global Culture.

Careers This degree will provide you with a wide range of subject-specific and transferable skills to give you a competitive advantage in the graduate employment market, or continue into postgraduate study. Previous graduates have taken up a variety of careers including: working in radio, television and print journalism, public relations as well as in various management positions in retail and business. You may also continue your studies to postgraduate level with our MA Contemporary Media.

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BA (Hons) Animation

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UCAS code: W271 • Full-time/Sandwich: 3/4 years • Part-time: 6 years • Location: Wolverhampton City Campus • Entry requirements: 200 UCAS points, or successful completion of a Foundation Course in Art and Design. A portfolio review of appropriate visual work is mandatory • Contact: wlv.ac.uk/media or tel: 01902 322 058.

Outline Animation is a versatile, wide-ranging, expressive form, combining visual aesthetics with sound, structured time and emotion. It can be used as entertainment, or a powerful voice for social and political statement. The course seeks to develop technical knowledge and cultivate the understanding of movement, mostly through drawing.

The course is delivered via a variety of teaching methods, including studio and workshop teaching, seminars and presentations. You will complement your practical studies with theory-based modules that investigate the current contextual and historical aspects of the subject. This includes the study of film language, narrative, non-narrative and conceptual approaches to genre and related contextual issues.

Technical hands-on modules will develop the craft of animating through 2D digital, traditional and computer-generated imagery methods. You will learn the following software applications up to industry standard: Maya, Toon Boom, After Effects, Flash, Photoshop, Painter and Premiere Pro. You will hone your editing, creative use of sound, composition and idea generating expertise as well as developing a critical awareness of the subject and establish your own creative individuality.

Careers Typical career opportunities open to graduates include work in animation, television and games design, illustration and the creative and communications industries. You may also continue your studies to postgraduate level on our MA programmes.

Recent student and graduate successes • Depict! Award at Encounters Film Festival 2010: Nominated, Tap, Andy Edwards, Paddy Fowler and Tom Massey.

• Winner, FLIP Animation Festival, Best Student Animation 2009: Vegetable Panic, Chris Warren.

• Royal Television Society (Midland) Nominee, Best Student Animation 2009: Billie and Millie, James Prankard.

• Winner, BAFTA, Best Student Games Award 2009: Owen Schwer.

• Winner, Royal Television Society (Midland) Awards, Best Student Animation 2008: Troubled, Tim Dowling.

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Animation lecturers are amazing. They are extremely helpful in getting you motivated. They push you to achieve your best.

They also really help find your career path.

Final year animation student

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BA (Hons) Computer Games Design

UCAS code: W284 • Full-time/Sandwich: 3/4 years • Part-time: 6 years • Location: Wolverhampton City Campus • Entry requirements: 200 UCAS points, or successful completion of a Foundation Course in Art and Design. A portfolio review of appropriate visual work is mandatory • Contact: wlv.ac.uk/media or tel: 01902 322 058.

Outline This course introduces you to games design, development and construction. You will explore areas such as interactive authoring, the creation of digital images, 3D modelling and techniques in scriptwriting and visual narratives. You will gain an understanding of new media, visual and interactive design for games – learning via lectures, seminars, practical workshops, tutorials, group work and live projects. You will develop subject skills and knowledge, your creative practice, and expertise in computer games design. This will enable you to proceed into the games industry as a well-rounded digitally literate professional practitioner, able to respond to the demands of computer games design, and the global and cultural conditions of commercial markets and research/postgraduate centres.

You will manage your own time and develop your ability for self-critical reflection, as well as function within a professional group dynamic, contributing to ideas generation and concept development. You will develop a portfolio of work with which to target specific industry sectors and will investigate the issues and impact of copyright law, licensing and royalties.

Careers This course prepares you for a career as an art director, visualiser and designer in the computer games industry, equipping you with a range of design and software skills. It develops the necessary skills and knowledge to formulate original concepts presented as storyboards and working artwork, supported by an awareness of realisation techniques relevant to game content and production.

Recent student and graduate successes • Recent graduates have built careers at a variety of UK based game companies such as: Rare, Codemasters, RockStar, Blitz, and Rebellion.

• Computer Games Design graduates, John Tearle, Matthew Clark and Sam Cobley have formed their own games design company: Raw Games rawgames.co.uk. Their first title The Spire was nominated as one of the top 10 upcoming independent games of 2010 at The IndieDB. • Winner, Dare to be Digital: Owen Schwehr and a team of University students.

• In 2009 the Gaming and Animation Institute within the University commissioned a student led project on behalf of the Shelfield Community Academy. The £300 first prize was won by Matthew Clarke, a third year Computer Games Design student for his MuckUp History game.

• Winner of a commission competition run by Retherm Renewable Energy Solutions: Stuart Lilford.

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Our students work, learn and play in a technologically-rich, culturally-diverse and supportive learning environment using a wide range of industry-standard software, games development engines and the latest technology and hardware.

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Dr Faramarz Amiri, Course Leader

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BA (Hons) Video and Film Production

UCAS code: W613 • Full-time/Sandwich: 3/4 years • Part-time: 6 years • Location: Wolverhampton City Campus • Entry requirements: 200 UCAS points, or successful completion of a Foundation Course in Art and Design. A portfolio review of appropriate visual work is mandatory • Contact: wlv.ac.uk/media or tel: 01902 322 058.

Outline This course provides a range of experiences in the scope, practices and demands of video and film production to prepare you for employment in the media industries or in other industries where media play a part.

You will work on a range of film/programme types, including documentary, drama, social action and commercial productions and develop your skills in project management and working with other people and organisations.

Your studies will include research, scriptwriting, camerawork, lighting, sound recording, video editing, sound design, DVD authoring and creation of streaming media. You will work with actors, composers and musicians and produce and direct drama, documentary, social action and commercial video.

The course is designed to reflect the Skillset National Occupational Standards for video and digital film production.

Careers You will be well prepared for media production roles including production, direction, editing, camera/lighting, sound, and will be suited to entry-level posts in the video, film or television industries, with subsequent progression to more advanced levels. You will be ideally suited to a multi-skilling role in these industries or as a media production specialist in a non-media company or organisation. Experience of working with real clients and collaborators will also prepare you for self-employment or establishing your own business.

Recent student and graduate successes • Winner, African Movie Academy Awards 2011, Best Feature Film: The Mirror Boy, Andrew Webber. Andrew also edited two films at the Cannes Short Film Festival 2011.

• Royal Television Society (Midland) Awards Nominee, Best Student Drama 2009: Earthbound, Will Beard, Lambros Panayi, Matt Terentjevs and David Shakespeare.

• Disability Film Festival 2009 Argh...It’s A Disabled Person • Winner, Royal Television Society (Midland) Awards, Best Student Drama and Best Student Production 2008: My Two Best Friends, Matt Bennett, Pete Benfield, Steve Evans, Rahela Jagric and Michalis Michael.

• RTE series commission, Richie Doyle of Creative Productions.

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The course provided a very comprehensive study into television production from initial concept right through to completion. This course has strongly influenced me and steered me on the right career path. It has made me always want to challenge myself, strive for perfection, and to always think outside the box.

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Richard Doyle Creative Director at www.creativeproductions.ie

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MA Film Studies

Full-time: 1 year • Part-time: 2 years • Location: City Campus • Start date: January/October • Contact: wlv.ac.uk/media or tel: 0800 953 3222.

Outline One of our most popular postgraduate courses, the MA Film Studies gives you the opportunity to engage in a cross-disciplinary investigation of various aspects of British, American, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, and Far Eastern cinema and the moving image culture.

Through a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, you will undertake an in-depth examination of how film texts relate to their historical, social and cultural contexts, with an emphasis on the political and textual dimensions. You will also have the opportunity to carry out independent research on a specialist topic of your choice, allowing you to explore your interests and deepen your knowledge.

Typical modules include Teaching Film and Media; 9/11 Narratives: Cinema and the War on Terror; Space, Place and Culture in Contemporary American Cinema; The Poetics and Practices of Eastern European Cinema; Screening the Holocaust and Beyond; Crisis, Conflict, Culture: Cinemas of the Middle East; Picturing Britain: Aesthetics, Discourse and Culture in British Cinema; Writing, Research, Referencing: Routes to Postgraduate Academic Success; Cinemas of the Orient: Texts and Contexts of Far Eastern Film; Screening Horror: Trauma, Fear, and Fantasy in Film.

Students may also take optional modules in Conflict Studies and Popular Culture.

The subject’s links with the Light House Media Centre, complete with two professional cinemas and a dedicated film library and archive, are well established.

Light House enjoys a strong regional and national profile as a media centre.

The course draws on the research interests and activities of Film Studies staff, as well as colleagues from other disciplines including Popular Culture, Conflict Studies, English and Media.

Careers As well as giving competence in a range of intellectual and social skills, the MA Film Studies programme is academically relevant to careers in the arts and media, leading to employment in arts administration, film archiving, film and media research, film journalism and teaching. A specific advantage of this course is a module enabling new lecturers to deliver Film Studies and Media at AS/A2 level.

It provides a suitable basis for doctoral research in film and film history for which supervision is available.

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Entry requirements

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You should have a good Honours degree (2:1 or above) in a relevant subject (eg.

Film, Media, Cultural Studies, Humanities subjects).

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MA Contemporary Media

Full-time: 1 year • Part-time: 2-3 years • Location: City Campus • Start date: January/October • Contact: wlv.ac.uk/media or tel: 0800 953 3222.

Outline Designed in conjunction with professional broadcasters and taught by media professionals, this multi-disciplinary course combines intellectual knowledge with practical experience to give you the necessary understanding and skills to work in the constantly changing media industry.

The course consists of carefully designed modules giving you an in-depth understanding of the essential elements of contemporary media, including different television genres, popular drama, news, radio, print, public relations and corporate and educational forms through differing practical approaches. You will learn the essential technical skills of self-shooting, editing and directing as well as the role of press, PR and marketing.

You will also have the opportunity to choose from either an industry placement within an organisation, or a Professional Practice module where you will produce a piece of media text, for example a television or radio production.

The course team has close relationships with media industries in the region, including the BBC, ITV, independent producers, press and PR companies, providing you with additional opportunities for making contacts with industry professionals. The course leader is a Fellow of the Royal Television Society and Vice-Chair of the Midland Centre and students are invited to industry events organised by the RTS.

Careers Relevant jobs for graduates include television, radio, corporate, production work, reporter and director. You will also gain the necessary knowledge and understanding to apply for other jobs within the media industries, including scheduling, sales, press and PR.

Entry requirements You should normally have a good honours degree (2:1 or above) in a relevant subject, for example media, communications, PR or journalism. Applicants with industry experience are also welcome.

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MA Public Relations and Corporate Communication

Full-time: 1 year • Part-time: 2-3 years • Location: City Campus • Start date: January/October • Contact: wlv.ac.uk/media or tel: 0800 953 3222.

Outline Our brand new MA Public Relations and Corporate Communications Master’s programme covers the fundamental academic principles and theories relevant to the field as well as the contemporary environmental drivers and professional practices that shape the profession in the 21st century.

The course will focus on the design and planning of organisational change campaigns, corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes and rhetorical and non-rhetorical responses and tactics to tackle issues and crises. Students will be equipped with the tools and skills needed to address different stakeholders and to approach any challenge from a strategic perspective.

The programme is taught by academic staff with extensive professional experience and expertise. This guarantees students will have the opportunity to learn up-to-date techniques that are relevant to the current workplace, whether their prospective or current posts involve practicing at a local, national or an international level.

The course is recognised by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), which means that our module content has been assessed to provide relevant skills and knowledge development towards a career in public relations or communications. Our students also currently receive free membership to the CIPR which gives them access to their online portal offering networking, career and placement advice and opportunities.

Careers The course is ideal for existing practitioners or graduates who wish to learn how to deal with PR tasks and challenges from a strategic perspective. This MA is particularly relevant to those interested in the rhetorical aspects of CSR, issues and crises management and organisational change. If you want to know what to say, when and why, then this is the course you need.

Modules may include Principles of Public Relations and Management; Organisational Communication; Public Relations and Corporate Communication Dissertation; Communicating CSR; PR and the Public; Quantitative Research Methods; The PR Agency; Enterprise in Practice; and Public Relations and Corporate Communication Dissertation.

Entry requirements You should have a good honours degree in a relevant subject.

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