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On the BA Media Studies, you’ll combine creative and practical storytelling with the development of your critical understanding of media, a vital skill since media industries are constantly expanding with new platforms emerging each year and new issues materialising like fake news.

• You’ll get to research and analyse media cultures, genres and industries as well as the role of media in society and politics, and then you’ll apply this in your practice of media design and production and interactive storytelling.
• You’ll develop your employability and professionalism through your exploration of media and cultural industries and working lives.
• Media Studies can be combined with Computer Science to develop a broad expertise in Media Technologies.

Why choose this degree?

• To gain practical experience through hands-on instruction in creative media practice.
• To learn about the impact of a range of media forms in society, culture and politics.
• To broaden your educational experience by studying Media Studies along with Arts subjects (such as languages, business, social sciences, computer science).

You’ll engage in TV production, interactive storytelling and the study of media theories. You’ll also be able to choose specialist topics such as TV studio production, mobile journalism, scriptwriting, advertising, media and gender and media and politics among others.

You’ll get to choose what capstone project you do: short film production or digital team project. You’ll also develop your employability by engaging in professional development modules that help you prepare for the working world. And you can take a number of specialist modules like live radio, global cinema, media law, podcasting and authorship in film and TV among others

FIRST YEAR

• 30 credits of Media Studies theory and practice modules
• Choose up to 2 additional Arts subjects (or Critical Skills) from groups 1-5 (max 1 per group). The only compatible double subject is Mathematics (Pure).

SECOND & THIRD YEAR

• Media Studies as a Double Major or Major/Minor with 1 of your 1st year subjects
• Optional 10 credit Electives in 2nd year

Career Options:

Graduates emerge with a range of practical, critical and transferable skills that enhance their employability in areas including: film, television and radio production; web and graphic design; content creation; social media; marketing, PR and communications; media research; IT.

Our graduates have taken up positions at RTÉ, Virgin Media, BBC One, Cartoon Saloon, Brown Bag Films, Microsoft, Accenture, BBDO, Version1. In addition, graduates have become independent creative professionals in web-design, film-making and content creation.

Postgraduate options currently include:

MA in Critical and Creative Media, MA in Sociology: Internet and Society, MLitt and PhD research degrees.