Foundation programme (Media and Creative Industries)
Programme leader: Jacqueline Mitchell
Prospective students who have been out of education for some time can undertake our unique Media and Creative Industries foundation programme, a foundation year to help prepare you for higher education. On successul completion of the foundation year, you are guaranteed a place on any one of the undergraduate programmes described in this brochure.
Media and Creative Industries is the catch-all term used to describe: advertising, architecture, arts, crafts, design, fashion, film and video, interactive media, music, performing arts, publishing, ICTs, TV and radio. Our foundation programme introduces students to a number of key debates within the humanities, in the context of developing the reading, writing and listening skills required for higher education study. We offer students the opportunity to become ‘critical practitioners’ in new media, through a hands-on introduction to a diverse range of media and creative industries, including the WWW. In addition we offer all students the opportunity to enhance their skills by attending study skills and ICT workshops.
In your first year of study, you enrol on four modules per semester. Two of these modules in each semester are compulsory, dealing with development of the essential skills of critical and creative writing and thinking. You choose the other two modules from a list of options.
For further information about entry requiements, see http://www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/programmes/m-and-ci.htm
Modules include:
- Creative and Critical Writing 1
- Culture and Change
- Creative and Critical Writing 2
- Information & Communication Technologies
- Multimedia
- Digital Audio
- Lens Media
- Advertising
- Popular Music
- Cinematics
- Performing Arts
- Journalism.
