University of Sussex

This single honours programme offers core courses in media studies and media production, together with a wide range of options covering histories, theories and research methods across a variety of topics.

Core courses for Media studies: These begin with broad-ranging courses introducing the key themes and debates in media studies and lead on to more specialised options in the second and final years.

Year One

The range of core courses this year lays the foundations for study, introducing students to histories, theories and practices of the media. All students take Introduction to Media Studies, which centers on key debates and controversies from media effects to new media technologies. All single honours students take Approaches to Practice.

Year Two

Media and Politics allows students to explore the role of  media in the political sphere, including news and current affairs. Researching Media and Film offers an overview of research methods. Media Studies single honours students also take Theory, Taste and Trash or Gender and Genre. Media Practice and Theory students will develop production skills in Intermediate Media Practice Workshops and in one of the following options: Digital Media; Documentary Video; Photography; Radio. All students also choose from a range of options that focus on individual media: Advertising; Interactive Media; Print Media; Radio; Television: Fictions and Entertainments. Media Studies students can also choose an option in Intermediate Media Practice or Cinema and Nation, specialising in American, British, Cuban, French, Indian, Italian, Japanese or Spanish Cinema

Year Three

Students choose options  from the following lists.

Autumn term: Analysing Animation; Cultures of Media Production; Documentary; Reality TV and Real Lives; Hollywood; Media and Modernity; Media and the Public Sphere; Media Technology and Everyday Life; Photo-journalism; and Viewing Women.

Spring and summer terms: Class, Spectacle and Popular Culture; Documentary Practice; Media and Music; Media in the Era of Globalisation; New Audience Research; New Technologies, New Markets; and Politics of Media Representation.