Media Studies

Ensure our student are media literate; inquisitive & questioning
Create autonomous learners that actively seek out information and discussion about the ever-changing media landscape
Question Media texts: who made them? What is their agenda?
Develop students highly skilled in digital technology
Develop creativity across a range of media productions (print, online and broadcast)
Engage with, understand and be able to apply key concepts such as – ideology, spectatorship, narrative theories etc to media and film texts.
Skill students in debate and put forth arguments in discursive essays, informed by academic writings
Prepare students for further studies, or working in media / film industries
Enhance knowledge and understanding of different cultures and social, political, cultural and historical contexts
Be able to analyse how media language communicates meaning and generates response and be able to apply theoretical media-based concepts in written essays