Bournemouth University – Bachelor of Global Media Practice BA (Hons) – Top-Up
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The key phrase of the 21st century media industry is “cross platform production”. Creative ideas are developed into themes and brands, exploited across a range of different media platforms including television, radio and the internet. This exciting, creative approach to media is at the very core of this course.
This Top-up course at Bournemouth University in England allows Canadian Community College Transfer Students to develop your international perspectives and communication skills in a single year program, and enhances your prospects for entry into media and communications employment with a full BA Honours degree from a top Media School in the UK.
As a Top-up degree at Bournemouth University, it is designed to allow progression from foundation degrees, HNDs or Canadian College Diploma Transfer programs at undergraduate degree level. Bournemouth is looking for Canadian Community College students who have studied any of the different media platforms. Bournemouth University in England will provide opportunities to develop your technical and creative skills in your own media specialism, as well as developing your understanding of developing global media markets, and the role of communication particularly across cultures, as well as gaining new perspectives on intercultural property and ethics.
Canadian College students will experience a distinctive and innovate mix of group-work, individual authorship, theory, practice, and work experience, in the areas of interactivity, sound design, and video production.
Course Content
Core Units
- The Global Media Environment
This unit will give a greater awareness of the ever-developing global media environment. You will learn about key concepts, ideas and theories relating to the development of media within a local, community, regional, national, international and global context.
You will also learn how disability, class, gender, religion, nationality and sexuality can play key roles in how people access the media as well as interpret it.
- Voice, Reach and Impact
Within this unit you will engage in production practice and get the opportunity to initiate, develop and create your own project through various forms of electronic media. You will need to learn how to pitch your ideas to an audience, develop your idea to a global brand level and understand your audience.
- Cross-Platform Projects
Here you will work within a group to produce various projects that can work across different media platforms. You will gain specialist knowledge in various forms of media, from online web content to TV production. You will have to show an ability to create media content that is creative and can be adapted across various mediums.
- Dissertation
The dissertation aims to give you a chance to develop and demonstrate your critical, analytical and research skills by creating a significant academic piece of work. You can chose to do this by creating an investigative report, a creative project or developing an industry research project. You will be assigned a dissertation supervisor who will be able to act as a consultant throughout the process.
Work Placements
The Media School at Bournemouth University has been committed to developing the best media education in the UK for over thirty years. As such, we have excellent connections with industry, and the reputation of our courses and students is second to none.
One key component of our courses is a period of work placement, and this course is no exception. We believe that exposure to the media industry is important for our graduates to become that vital blend of effective learners and media professionals.
We have a placement office that will help support you in finding a placement that meets your needs. The 4-week placement is at the end of the course so if you would like to return to your home country to undertake a placement, this course offers you the flexibility.
We also regularly bring in key media professionals to deliver master classes, and to be involved in the setting of assignments, and providing feedback to students. Exposure to the media industry has never been better – or more important.
Postgraduate degrees at BU
The Top-up course has been designed to provide a pathway into our exciting range of postgraduate courses, in the areas of media production, corporate and marketing communications, and multi-media journalism.
Students will have the opportunity to see first-hand what these courses are like. Why not take advantage of being with us by applying for one of our postgraduate courses too, and enjoying a 20% Alumni Discount on tuition fees for the Masters course?