Media Communication Cultures | BA (Hons) at Leeds Beckett University

Course Details

Create the future of communications. A dynamic course that critically explores cultural trends and media industries. Engage with all forms of mass communication: the internet, social media, television, radio, popular music and cinema.

Get hands-on and create photographic essays, blogs and podcasts. Design a talk programme for a radio station. Invent and pitch a lifestyle TV concept. Design and create an online game. Form an anti-racism campaign group.

Work alongside practising professionals from social media, marketing, TV and and magazine production in state-of-the-art social learning spaces.

Graduate with a recognised degree and employable skills across all current and potential future media platforms.

Research Excellence Framework 2014
Research Excellence Framework 2014: 38% of our research was judged to be world leading or internationally excellent in the Communication, Culture and Media Studies, Library and Information Management unit.

“The staff at Leeds Beckett have provided me with an incredible amount of academic and personal support throughout my time at the university and continue to do so post-graduation.” Chelsea Collindridge, BA (Hons) Media, Communication, Cultures is the Founding Director of Digiclick Design

Course Benefits

We celebrate students and staff with a true passion for the Arts and Humanities.

Through inspired teaching and intellectual debate, plus day to day interaction with award-winning authors and playwrights, a rolling programme of media industry professionals, published lecturers and world-renowned researchers, we will nurture your passion by developing your creative and critical thinking.

Then we will open your mind to the wide range of opportunities to pursue a career you love, be it anything from writing and teaching, through journalism and copywriting, business and marketing, to research and publishing.

Leeds is the Northern heart of culture and the arts. Your campus sits in the very centre of the city, surrounded by over 18 museums, 10 art galleries, 17 theatres, 4 film production companies and 3 recording studios (plus the odd bar, restaurant and club!). We work directly with Leeds museums and galleries and many regional events, including the Ilkley Literature Festival and the Leeds West Indian Carnival.

Our research and teaching explore a diversity of topics, from South Africa under Apartheid to the cultural impact of the LGBTQ community and from on-line racism in football to 21st century genres. We're also very hands-on: from regular conferences, seminars and events organised by our Centre for Culture and the Arts, to collaborations with institutes and cultural organisations.

Take a look at the opportunities we provide to study abroad.