Media
UCL (University College London)
UCAS Code: P300 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
UCL (University College London)
UCAS Code: P300 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Art and Design, Film and Media Studies and Computer Science preferred Contextual Offers: please visit the course webpage for further details about our Access UCL scheme.
Access to HE Diploma
Pass in Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 30 credits at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit, all from Level 3 units.
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
D3,D3,M1 in three Cambridge Pre-U Principal Subjects. No specific subject.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
A score of 17 points in three higher level subjects, with no score lower than 5. Contextual Offers: please visit the course webpage for further details about our Access UCL scheme.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma (QCF) or BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (RQF - teaching from 2016) with Distinction, Distinction, Distinction.
Scottish Advanced Higher
AAB at Advanced Highers (or AA at Advanced Higher and BBB at Higher).
Successful completion of the WBQ Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate plus 2 GCE A-Levels at grades AAB.
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About this course
The BA Media offers a unique blend of analytical, creative and entrepreneurial experience of the media arts in the twenty-first century. It draws on a range of disciplinary expertise across three faculties at UCL: in media histories, media sociology and film studies (Arts & Humanities); Digital Anthropology (Social & Historical Sciences), game studies, digital arts, media semiotics, and education (Institute of Education). It provides a broad understanding of the exhilarating possibilities of the digital era: how the media is made, how it is experienced, how it functions in society, where it came from and what its future might be.
The course situates the study of the media in a unique set of contexts, drawing on UCL’s networks and partnerships in London and beyond: the creative industries, centres of community enterprise and learning, and museums, galleries and libraries. Experience of these will be offered as placements leading to an assessed project in Year 2.
Based initially at Bloomsbury, it will move in 2023 to UCL’s new East Bank campus, UCL East, where it will join a suite of new teaching and research activities at the cutting edge of technological and cultural work.
The course equips you to understand, enjoy and create your own forms of media, for a wide range of future purposes: as creative and critical citizens; as potential employees and creators of the media industries of the future; as media artists and community activists.
It offers a programme of options introducing you to a broad experience of theory and practice, eventually leading towards a preference for researching the media, culminating in a final dissertation project for the third year degree conference; or making the media, culminating in a studio-based production project for the third year degree show.
Further information about the programme can be found on the UCL Undergraduate Prospectus: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/degrees/media-ba
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London, Stratford (UCL East)
Culture, Communication and Media
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