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BA (Hons) English and Contemporary Media
UCAS Code(s):
QP33
If your qualification isn't listed above, please refer to the UCAS website. All applications are considered on their individual merits and we can be flexible in the offer that is made.Career Potential: This degree provides students with strong communication and analytical skills that are highly valued in today’s employment market. These skills are reinforced by the opportunity for student work placements. Graduates from the course have pursued careers in a variety of industries, including: media, journalism, education, public relations, marketing and heritage. A proportion of students advance to postgraduate study at either Masters or PhD level. Course Content: Cardiff offers a wonderful stimulus for all things creative and cultural. Our degree in English and Contemporary Media draws upon this rich and vibrant landscape to combine your love of literature with your passion for media and culture. With the largest media sector in the UK outside of London, the degree programme is perfectly placed in Cardiff to offer both a rewarding and stimulating university experience. This innovative degree programme allows students to combine theoretical perspectives in English and Media with practical vocational skills in journalism. As well as a rich and varied academic focus, the course also benefits from an exciting extra-curricula culture, including visiting media professionals and cultural excursions. Students also have the opportunity to contribute to and co-edit Cardiff's Calling, the University’s student guide and Nexus, the University's creative writing magazine. Cardiff is a city that has produced a rich pedigree of novelists, scriptwriters, playwrights and media professionals. These include BBC journalist, newsreader and UWIC alumni Michael Buerk, whose reports on the Ethiopian famine in 1984 served as the inspiration behind Band Aid; Welsh BAFTA award-winning journalist Huw Edwards and Cardiff-born documentary filmmaker and Guardian columnist Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare at Goats). Cardiff continues to fascinate contemporary screenwriters through TV programmes such as Doctor Who and Torchwood, and could provide an inspiration for you too. And in the heart of this vibrant Welsh capital, UWIC is perfectly placed to offer you an intimate and rewarding university experience. Set in one of the most beautiful parts of the city, the Cyncoed Campus has become a centre of excellence in the delivery of Humanities programmes. This degree combines theoretical perspectives in English and Media with practical vocational skills in journalism, providing a programme perfectly balanced between theory and practice, delivered from the creative heart of Wales. English: The study of English will engage with your enthusiasm for reading and literature, and introduce you to advanced critical thinking in the form of theoretical practice. Your degree investigates the foundations of contemporary literature via an examination of the cultural narratives we tell ourselves. Modules involving myth, detective fiction and gothic and science fiction investigate our manner of representing the world around us. Likewise, an attention to the socio-political production of texts contextualises the study of contemporary English literature. Modules are taught by the research active team (including Charlie Harris, Dr Katharine Cox, Dr Carmen Casaliggi) who have research interests in such areas as literature and landscapes, English language, children’s literature, art and literature, and myth in contemporary literature. Contemporary Media: This part of the degree combines theoretical analysis of contemporary media, such as film, television, music and digital technology with practical skills in writing and producing journalism. You will be taught by academic staff who are also current practitioners and researchers, from Robert Taffurelli former Editor of Film and TV Production Review and Managing Editor of one of London’s largest publishing houses, and current film, TV and media freelance journalist and Consultant Editor of IBE magazine, to Dr Nicola Smith who publishes widely on the topics of popular music, cultural identities, audience studies and ageing fandom. Dr Smith also contributes to various newspapers and has appeared on BBC Radio Wales and ITV Wales as a popular culture expert. Year One: Introductory modules like those offered in Literature, Contemporary Media and Journalism provide you with a taster of content, form and genre; while our attention to your academic skills will provide you with a theoretical ‘toolbox’ which you’ll be able to call upon later during your degree. Typical modules include:
The second year introduces the subjects in more depth with specific modules targeting journalism, film, the growth of the modern novel and literary theory, while our attention to research methods will prepare you for your dissertation. Typical modules include:
By year three you’ll have a keen sense of your own academic path, as well as a study agreed with your dissertation supervisor into an area of your own choosing. This is an opportunity for you to specialise in one area of specific interest. Typical modules include:
Extra-Curricula: Throughout the year, you will be invited to attend theatre trips, films and other cultural events held in Cardiff. The Department also regularly invites external speakers to give presentations and readings. Assessment: Assessment consists of a mixture of creative work (producing a portfolio), assessed seminar presentations, essays and exams. The degree is enhanced by the use of the university’s e-learning system. Selection Procedure: Selection is usually on the basis of a completed UCAS application and interview.
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