Art Degrees Online

This course will provide you with a unique and stimulating combination of film theory, cinema studies and video-making practice. Designed to develop your knowledge and understanding of current film scholarship in a variety of contexts, it will also provide you with a creative and practical grounding for careers in the TV, film and media industries. The course focuses on the cultural, aesthetic, political and economic importance of film, and this is elaborated in three distinct areas: studies in world cinema; interrogating the relationship between film and new media; and practical experience of digital video production.

You will study film texts, film histories and national cinemas from a variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives, and develop the critical tools necessary for the analysis and understanding of contemporary film theory and practice and its connections within wider digital culture. Lectures and seminars are accompanied by weekly film screenings and you will be given the opportunity to develop transferable skills and aptitudes including group presentations and writing short screenplays and film production dossiers. You will also be given the opportunity to apply your knowledge creatively in practical video-making modules in both fiction and documentary film contexts.

Careers
Graduates can expect to enter the film, media and cultural industries in a wide range of roles, including film/TV production, film curation, journalism, public relations and administration. Former students have gone on to work for Paramount, Disney and Metro-Tartan.

This exciting new course will impart the skills necessary to meet the challenges posed by the latest developments within photographic technology. The course combines the practical and critical study of photography with a strong emphasis on new technologies and enterprise.

With the majority of images being captured, viewed and distributed digitally around the globe, digital photography has become an influential tool in modern communication. Technological advances and the changes in working practices have had an enormous impact on the face of the industry allowing the individual greater creativity.

The course will focus on the latest developments in digital imaging and also aims to develop the critical tools for thinking about the role of photography within contemporary media. You will develop your skills with both analogue and digital capture, production, post production, promotion and distribution.

In collaboration with enterprise partners both inside the university and beyond, you will
contribute to a ‘stock image’ digital library which promotes and sells the work of students. This course prepares you for your future career and provides a live professional environment from your very first day at university.

We will encourage you to explore this rapidly expanding industry and equip you with the entrepreneurial skills required to build your own successful photographic business.