Media Studies

Course summary

Media Studies will help you to develop valuable, transferable skills such as critical thinking, analysis, research, planning, skills of enquiry and evaluation, practical skills, creativity, time management, essay writing skills and more. The media is the most dynamic, innovative and influential mention of mass communication of modern times. It has been reported that adults in Great Britain are consuming media for almost 8 hours a day. That is 8 hours a day watching films and television, reading newspapers and sifting through online media. Within that time, we are bombarded by other people’s representations of the world and how we respond to these representations can affect our perceptions of people, places and society, of politics and culture, of ourselves and of our place in the world. Media Studies is a vital tool necessary to understanding the media’s significance and its power. Your studies will complement and assist your learning in other subjects such as English Language and Literature, Humanities, Sociology, Film, ICT and the Extended Project.