BA (HONOURS) Media at Sheffield Hallam University

• Learn key research skills vital to understanding modern media culture.
• Produce practical work in formats such as podcasts, mobile apps, and audio-visual media.
• Develop skills to progress into diverse careers, including the media industries, research and development, and academia and teaching.
• Choose from a variety of optional modules to enable you to create your own degree journey.

Build your understanding of the cultural, political and social contexts of media forms, organisations and technologies with this modern media course. Study the workings of core media institutions and learn about key approaches to analysing media texts, researching audiences, and investigating media industries.

Work placements

You will have the opportunity to arrange a year-long work placement in between your second and third years. This gives you a real-world experience to prepare you for your future career. Previous students have completed placements with the BBC, regional newspapers, PR and advertising agencies and the voluntary sector.

Live work

Many modules on the degree make use of the Venture Matrix (a University department which sources clients for live projects) that will give you the experience of working with the media industry.

Field trips

There will be the opportunity to attend regional, national and international media events. Trips have included visits to the Berlin Film Festival and the Aesthetica Film Festival where you get the chance to meet industry experts. You can also apply for our Go Global student initiative, which has taken our students to destinations such as Malaysia and Paris. There is opportunity to study abroad as part of the international Erasmus programme (subject to the UK’s continued participation in the Erasmus programme following the Brexit transition period).

Networking opportunities

A number of industry days and events (Grad Talk, Pathways) are held on campus where students can network with and attend talks and workshops run by creative media industry professionals and organisations.

We make sure you can network and make industry connections throughout your course. Every year we have students working at Sheffield Doc/Fest, one of the top three documentary film festivals in the world, attending exclusive workshops with international industry experts.

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• • media policy research
  • political communication and governance research
  • audience research
  • research and development
  • teaching/academia
  • mobile app design
  • media data analysis
  • media industries (radio, film, television)
  • social media management
  • publishing
  • voluntary sector
  • events management
  • PR and marketing