Digital Media and Music Production BA (Hons)

Keele University

Are you ready to create, innovate and make a positive impact as a responsible digital citizen or music producer? Develop your creative edge with our Digital Media and Music Production BA. Build cutting-edge digital media skills and gain professional music production expertise. You’ll work with industry-standard software and equipment and collaborate on real-world projects. Undertaking a work placement will provide you with industry experience, and you'll build a professional portfolio to help shape your future career in the fast-moving and innovative creative industries.

Our Digital Media and Music Production degree’s contemporary curriculum is designed for aspiring creatives. You’ll critically explore the theories behind digital media and music production and develop hands-on content creation skills. This will provide you with the creative, professional and technical skills to produce dynamic digital content and high-quality audio, opening doors to wide ranging careers in areas such as broadcasting, sound engineering, television and marketing.

You’ll build skills and knowledge in areas including content creation for social media, analysing what makes good content and understanding the different platforms, content and audiences. Using professional recording studios and state-of-the–art equipment you’ll gain a solid grounding in recording and mixing skills and gain practical experience as sound technician and engineer. You’ll examine the contemporary music scene and put your understanding of the nuances of crafting compelling and persuasive multimedia stories into practice focusing on an issue you’re passionate about.

Optional modules throughout this programme allow you to tailor your studies to your interests, enhancing your creative, digital, or analytical skills. Topics range from creating sound for moving images, digital curation and history, sampling and remixing, media and climate change, social media management and the American South – a summer school in the US.

Our practical, career-focused approach includes real-world projects, work placements, and study abroad opportunities. You'll develop workplace-ready skills including critical thinking, communication and problem-solving and graduate with a professional portfolio created using industry-standard equipment and software, highly valued in the digital media and creative industries.

Enhance your employability

As a Digital Media and Music Production graduate you will possess a wealth of knowledge and practical industry relevant experience, providing a foundation for kick-starting your career in the creative industries or further study.

You will be able to apply your skills in across various sectors including sound recording, music production, filmmaking, audio streaming and broadcasting and explore careers in:

Theatre

Sound engineering

Sound Mixing

Mastering

Television

Marketing

Public Relations

Public Arts

Journalism

Broadcasting

Business

Education

Further study

Foundation year

Studying a Foundation Year, for whatever reason, offers an alternative route to Keele, and provides a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree. That extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge and, perhaps most importantly, build your confidence.

Duration of study

3 years or 4 years with international or placement year