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BA Media and English

University of Derby

Institution
University of Derby
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Media and English
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
P3Q3
Typical offer
A-level BBC

Entry requirements

UCAS tariff: 112 A level: BBC T Level: Merit BTEC: DMM GCSE: GCSE Maths and English Grade 4/Grade C (or above) or equivalent qualification Access to HE: Pass Access to HE Diploma with 60 credits: 45 at Level 3 with a minimum of Distinction: 15, Merit: 24, Pass: 6 English language: IELTS: 6.0 (with at least 5.5 in each skills area)

About this course

BA (Hons) in English and Film Studies. Core topics include Data Analysis and Research Methods. The programme offers an optional placement year typically completed between the second and final stages of study. Final-year students undertake an independently researched project supervised across two semesters.

Modules

  • Placement Learning and Professional Development
  • Media Industries
  • Newswriting
  • Analysing Media
  • Theorising Literature and Meaning (PDP)
  • Mutants and Monsters: Interpreting Fantasy
  • Shakespeare and Early Modernity
  • Podcast Professional
  • Celebrity Media and Culture
  • Curating Contemporary Television
  • Literature, Identity and The Real
  • Modernism
  • Nineteenth-Century Realism: Conscience and Context
  • Poetry and Revolution in the British Romantic Period
  • Research in Practice
  • Print Design and Production
  • Writing for Impact
  • Media Research
  • Technology, Surveillance and Screen Media
  • English Independent Study (PDP)
  • Advanced Research in Practice
  • After The Modern: Existentialism and Postmodernism
  • Colonialism and Independence
  • Tragedy
  • Gender and Identity in Contemporary Literature
  • Riots and Rebels: Studies in Intercultural Drama
  • The Art of Crime
  • Modern and Contemporary Poetry
  • Eighteenth-Century Literature: Terror Wit and Letters of Love
  • Media Dissertation
  • Gendered Cyberspace
  • Start Up Journalism
  • Data Science and Data Journalism