Television and New Broadcasting Media BA(Hons)

Why choose this course?

This degree explores the evolving nature of television and its relationship with a range of interrelated media forms – radio and the internet, journalism, mobile phones, iPads and iPods. It will train you to analyse visual texts and to create your own. It offers a thorough understanding of television and new media histories, enabling you to go forward to shape television's future.

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What will you study?

The course integrates theory, criticism and practical work. You will explore academic theory and the history of television and related media alongside a range of critical approaches used to analyse television programmes and their production and consumption. You will learn how broadcasting industries work and will develop practical production skills.

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1

• Live and Direct
• On the Box
• TV Times
• Watch Carefully: Close Readings of Television

Year 2

• Investigating Television
• The Light Programme
• Streaming the Media
• Genre Studies
• Watching the Detectives
• What's so funny? Film, Radio and TV Comedy

Year 3

• Web TV
• Dissertation
• Special Study: TV Horror
• Big Ideas for the Small Screen
• Cult Films, Trash Aesthetics and Exploitation
• Days of Hope: Drama and Broadcasting
• Watch the Skies: Science Fiction Television and Film
• We Are The Champions: Sport and Broadcasting