Program Overview

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BA Media and Communications - 2026 entry

Overview

You will hone practical and professional skills, equipping you to work across the creative industries or anywhere requiring people who understand how media and communications work. Study a range of contexts and applications, gaining a thorough grounding in the field. Opportunity to experience different ways of learning, with specialist modules that cover everything from the history of communications and professional writing, to language and social interaction, media, and global communications.

Entry requirements

• A-Level: ABB
• IB: 32/655
• BTEC: DDM
• GCSE: C or 4 in English Language
• Access to HE: 24 L3 Credits at Distinction Grade and 21 L3 credits at Merit Grade
• T-Level: Distinction

Contextual offers:

• A-Level: BBC
• IB: 28/554
• BTEC: DDM-DMM

Course content

Year 1

• 90 credits of compulsory modules, 30 credits of optional modules

Compulsory modules

• CMM1001: Perspectives on Communications (30 credits)
• CMM1002: Communications Challenges (30 credits)
• CMM1004: Communications Research Methods (30 credits)

Optional modules

• CMM1005: Social Media and Society (30 credits)
• EAS1044: Imagine This: Prompts for Creative Writing (15 credits)
• HAS1001: Enter the Matrix: Digital Perspectives on the Humanities (15 credits)
• EAS1016: Digital Cultures: Narrative, Creativity, Industry (15 credits)
• DRA1016: Performance Analysis (30 credits)

Year 2

• 60 credits of compulsory modules, 60 credits of optional modules

Compulsory modules

• CMM2002: Communications in the Workplace (30 credits)
• CMM2008: Communications Research Methods (30 credits)

Optional modules

• CMM2010: Professional Writing (30 credits)
• CMM2016: Economies of Engagement: Gamification and Platform Cultures (30 credits)
• CMM2017: Internet Foundations and Frontiers (30 credits)
• CMM2012: Communications and the Climate Crisis (30 credits)
• CMM2014: Design Thinking (30 credits)
• CMM2018: Media and the Law: Regulation, Governance, Ethics (30 credits)
• EAF2502: Shots in the Dark (30 credits)

Placement year (if taken)

• Typically, any placement year will take place in Year 3

With Study Abroad

• 120 credit compulsory placement module
• For your year abroad, you will agree on a suite of modules in your host institution with the Faculty Study Abroad Coordinator

With Employment Experience

• 120 credit compulsory placement module
• You will be responsible for finding and organizing your placement

With Employment Experience Abroad

• 120 credit compulsory placement module
• You will be responsible for finding and organizing your placement

Final year

• 30 credits of compulsory modules, 90 credits of optional modules

Compulsory modules

• CMM3002: Communications: Dissertation (30 credits)
• CMM3003: Communications: Practical Research Project (30 credits)

Optional modules

• CMM3005: Gender, Sexuality and Media (30 credits)
• CMM3009: Selling the Self: Influencer Culture and Digital Capitalism (30 credits)
• CMM3007: Critical AI Studies (30 credits)
• CMM3008: Imagining Tech Futures for the Common Good (30 credits)
• CMM3010: Social Media and Migration (30 credits)
• CMM3006: Digital Inequalities (30 credits)
• EAF3515: Something to See: War and Visual Media (30 credits)
• EAF3501: American Independent Film (30 credits)
• EAF3519: Cinema in the Anthropocene (30 credits)
• EAF3523: Perspectives on Animation (30 credits)
• EAF3522: Film, Philosophy, and the Internet (30 credits)
• DRA3102: Audio Dramaturgy: Theatre of the Ear (30 credits)
• EAS3128: Writing the Short Film (30 credits)

Course variants

BA Media and Communications with Study Abroad

• UCAS code: P305
• Our four-year ‘with Study Abroad’ degree offers you the possibility of spending your third year abroad, studying with one of our many partner universities

BA Media and Communications with Employment Experience

• UCAS code: P306
• Our four-year ‘with Employment Experience’ degree, offers you the possibility of spending your third year carrying out a graduate-level work placement or placements within the UK as part of your degree

BA Media and Communications with Employment Experience Abroad

• UCAS code: P307
• Our four-year ‘with Employment Experience Abroad’ degree, offers you the possibility of spending your third year abroad, carrying out a graduate-level work placement or placements as part of your degree

Fees

• UK students: £9,535 per year
• International students: £24,700 per year

Scholarships

• The University of Exeter has many different scholarships available to support your education, including £5 million in scholarships for international students applying to study with us in the 2025/26 academic year

Learning and teaching

• The nature of learning at university involves considerable self-guided study and research
• You will be taught through a combination of lectures and discussion-based seminars
• We also support the development of team-based learning by organizing students into study groups, and we make full use of both traditional learning resources and our virtual learning environment

Facilities

• We are exceptionally lucky to have some fantastic facilities and resources on the Streatham Campus
• Special Collections relating to writers such as Agatha Christie, Daphne du Maurier, and William Golding
• The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
• Digital Humanities Lab

Your future

• With practical modules on offer and opportunity to undertake professional placements, a degree in Communications will give you plenty of opportunity to develop your professional portfolio which will give you the skills and experience needed to be successful in your chosen career
• Employer-valued skills this course develops:
  • Oral and written communication
  • Research and analytical skills
  • Problem-solving and decision-making
  • Time management and teamwork
• Career paths:
  • Advertising
  • Digital Media
  • Events Organisation
  • Film-making
  • International Relations
  • Journalism
  • Marketing
  • Public Relations
  • Research
  • TV Production

Related courses

• English and Communications BA
• Film & Television Studies and Communications BA
• Communications and Modern Languages BA
• English BA
• English with Study in North America BA

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