Media and Communication University of Leicester

Overview

Key features

The BA in Media and Communication offered at the University of Leicester is designed to provide you with an understanding of a wide range of contemporary issues related to the theory, development and practice of mass and interactive communication, both nationally and internationally. You will learn how news is produced and reported, and how media industries, politics, culture and society interact, as well as learning about a very wide range of media, from newspapers to Twitter, from Hollywood movies to reality TV.

Today, the media is in your pocket, on your bedside table and in your classroom, unlike a few years ago when it was just in the living room. Media is an integral part of social and political revolutions and changes. From Pinterest to photo and location tagging on Facebook, from long-trusted newspapers read in print to films discussed on YouTube – the media are now so much part of our lives that we take them for granted.

You will study a wide range of issues in the field of media and communication and will be able to shape your studies by choosing the topics that you are most interested in. You can specialise by choosing from four different routes:

• Mass communication
• New and digital media
• Media practice
• Film and cultural studies
• Or develop your own route by choosing option modules which interest you the most. Among other things, you can choose to study media production, audiences, media policy, film, television, new media, journalism or international communication

Careers and employability

Recent graduates have gone on to work for companies such as:

• American Express

• Artavia Advertising

• BBC

• City Index

• E.ON Energy

• Gogglebox Entertainment

• HMRC

• Lloyds Bank

• Sky Media

• Transport for London

• Web Liquid Digital Marketing 

Others have gone on to further study in the following fields:

• Broadcast Journalism

• Journalism

• Marketing

• Cinema and Television

• International Relations