Cultural and Media Studies - BA (Hons)

University of Leeds

You’ll explore cultural and media productions, practices and institutions in national, transnational and global contexts and across subject areas including philosophy, literature, sociology, art history, film, communication studies and digital humanities.With a wide choice of modules, you’ll gain a real breadth of knowledge and be able to tailor your studies to focus on areas that interest you the most. You’ll examine issues such as conflict and its cultural mediation, migration and multicultural societies as well as utopian thinking and social activism in offline and online spaces. You’ll study difference across the globe, including race, class, gender, disability, the dialogue of analogue and digital technologies with our minds, bodies, ecologies, and other life forms, alongside the social effects of global communication networks.The course is taught jointly by two distinctive departments (the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies and the School of Media and Communication), who combine innovative approaches to studying, making, and displaying culture and the arts with critical examinations of how people share knowledge, values and beliefs through television, journalism, film, online media and beyond. You’ll become a critical and agile evaluator of cultural materials and mediated practices across diverse contexts, thereby allowing you to become global citizens who actively engage with contemporary societal challenges.Additional highlightsInnovative research centres, projects and initiatives based out of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies as well as the School of Media and Communication offer dynamic sites of engagement. A few notable highlights include:Centre for Critical Materialist StudiesCentre for Cultural Studies (The internationally renowned journal parallax is edited from the Centre.)Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (CentreCATH)Media Industries and Cultural ProductionMUSICSTREAM: Music Culture in the Age of StreamingMedia FuturesSpecialist facilitiesThe University Library offers online books, journals and databases, has a wealth of archive material in its Special Collections, including manuscript, archive and early printed material, and provides a range of spaces for individual study or group work. You’ll also benefit from access to Box of Broadcasts, an archive of over 2 million TV and radio broadcasts.You can join various media production societies on campus and learn to use production/post-production equipment, software and facilities.Over 16,000 courses are also available to you through LinkedIn Learning to complement your academic and professional portfolio.The University campus also features wide range of museums, archives, and galleries:The Stanley & Audrey Burton GalleryTreasures of the Brotherton GalleryMuseum of the History of Science, Technology and MedicineMarks & Spencer Company ArchiveInternational Textile CollectionDigital Cultures and Creativity Hub