This exciting Media Studies and English course course is jointly run by the School of English and the School of Creative Studies and Media. It is aimed at students who want to study English and combine it with Media Studies in order to equip themselves better for a career in these highly competitive professional fields. Media Studies includes: television and radio, film and video, software and computer games, design, professional writing, journalism and advertising. Skills and techniques learnt during the study and writing of texts lie at the core of many of the key areas in these industries. This Media Studies and English course course will equip you with a solid grounding in the technical and practical skills required to make you a sought after professional in these fields. You will also benefit from expert tuition that relates to the research interests of the academic staff from both Schools. The School of English can offer internationally recognised excellence in areas that include Medieval Literature, the Early Modern period, Romanticism, literary Modernism and Contemporary fiction and poetry. Within that range there are also strengths in Arthurian literature, Gender theory and Women's Writing, Literature and Science, and Welsh Writing in English.

Courses run by the School of Creative Studies and Media offer a number of career paths for you to choose from once you graduate. They emphasise the importance of creative exploration, and actual university-level critical understanding. These things - the ability to be creatively adaptable, consider the tools at hand and apply creative thinking, the importance of innovation and a combination of practical and critical knowledge - make Creative Studies and Media graduates ideal employees or, indeed, creative entrepreneurs in their own businesses. Creative Studies and Media courses have seen graduates involved in both academe and in industry, including work in: Creative Writing, Professional Writing and Publishing; Performance and the Theatre, both on and behind the stage; Print and/or Broadcast Journalism; Actors, presenters and in television programme production; Advertising and the Marketing industries; Radio, as presenters, as well as in programme production; Digital, Web and New Media production; Multi-media industries.