This course is also available through the medium of Welsh. Click here to find out more. Related Welsh-medium courses are also offered by the School of Creative Studies and Media: BA (Anrhydedd) Diwydiannau Creadigol (Creative Industries) and the BA (Cyd-Anrhydedd) Astudiaethau'r Cyfryngau a Cherddoriaeth (Media Studies and Music). This exciting degree is aimed at students who want to study Media Studies, including: television and radio; film and video; digital media and computer games; professional writing; journalism; public relations; media practice. Skills and techniques learnt during the study and production of audio-visual material lie at the core of many of the key areas in the creative industries. This 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. Staff in the School have a range of research interests including comics, gaming and virtual worlds, visual culture, live television, hypertexts and have recently written on topics such as film and video, multimedia, global media systems, virtual landscapes, social networks, interactive television, media and representation, cult TV and computer games.

Career Prospects The practice elements of this degree equip the students with a thorough understanding of the principles which underlie media production. A number of our graduates have gone on to work in the newspaper industry, and on television and radio, both in front of the camera and as part of the production team. Several graduates each year go on to develop their work further with us through a period of postgraduate study.