Nottingham University

Nottingham University offers a delightful campus setting, located ten minutes from the city centre. There are lots of facilities for its students, such as a large library with social and private study areas, a café, food shops, a theatre and a gym. The on campus accommodation for first year students also comes with social areas in both the catered and non-catered halls. The campus itself has lots of open space around the lake, which can be used by all students and is the hosting space for some of the universities diverse social clubs. There are also Football, netball, basketball and hockey pitches.

 

Both the Film and Media Studies courses at Nottingham University have an industry focus and a wide variety of theory and contemporary units; however, this university does not offer a practical aspect to the courses.

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International Media and Communication:

This offers a global insight into Media and Industry. The multicultural student body at the university aids discussion as it brings a wide variety of media experiences to the course.

Units on the course include:

FIRST YEAR

-Media and society

-Communication and Culture (the role of popular culture in creating identity and reinforcing beliefs)

-Cultures of Everyday Life (every day rituals of our life’s, what are the significance and impact of these?)

-Communication and Technology

SECONND YEAR

-Political Communications

-Propaganda

-Global Media

-Translating Cultures

-Cultural Politics

THIRD YEAR

-Contesting Culture

-Media and Conflict

-Public Sphere

-Comics and Visual Narrative

-Self, Sign and Society

-Sensory Cultures

-Writing for the Media

 

The final Dissertation is ten thousand words with a dedicated tutor.

 

As well as these units Students also take a language unit. This is compulsory on the course but lessons start at a beginners level so no prior experience is required. However, if the student already has experience they can elect to start the language units at a higher level.

The course allows for lots of independent research, key texts are set however; suggestions of supplementary texts are suggested. Students also create their own titles for some of the essay assessments. The course consists of a lecture and seminar per week for each unit being studied.

 

There is also the opportunity to study abroad as the university has campuses in Malaysia and China where equivalent courses can be studied.

 

Outside of the course there are opportunities for students to get involved in the Radio Station and Newspaper and also help to promote and organise media related events.