Media Studies, Film and
Media Practice
Who are we?
Vicky Anderson
Media Practice 2011
Adrian Goycoolea
Media and Film
What we will cover today
• Your choices with us
• How the degrees work
• The degrees in detail
• The skills you will acquire
• How we support you during your time at Sussex
• The benefits of Brighton
• Your future beyond Sussex
• Experiences from current and recent students
• An opportunity for you to ask any questions
Your choices with us
• BA Film Studies
• BA Media Studies
• BA Media Practice
• BA Media and Cultural Studies
• BA Film Studies Joint Honours
• BA Media Studies Joint Honours
How the degrees work
• Core plus options
• Range of options
• Elective subjects
• Teaching methods and class time
• Assessment
• Dissertations & Degree Show
• Resources and facilities (tour to follow)
Film Studies in detail
The Artist, 2011
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
Film Studies, Single Honours
Programme outline Levels One and Two
Level One
Level Two
Semester One
Semester Two
CORE
Issues in Film Studies
1. Hollywood
CORE
Issues in Film Studies
2. Global Cinemas
CORE
Film Theory
POF 100%
2 x ESS 50%
GPN 30% + ESS 70%
‘Study Skills’ embedded
CORE
Film Analysis:
Narrative, Style and
Technology
Semester One
1 or 2 of options:
Locating Cinema:
British / Cuban / French /
Indian / Spanish
‘Beginning to research skills ’embedded
CORE
Working with Film
(new course)
POF 100%
CORE
American
Cinema
ESS 100%
POF 100%
School option or
elective
Semester Two
School option or
elective
School
option or
elective
American
Cinema
30
Credits
1 Option:
Locating
Cinema:
British/Indian
Cuban/French
Spanish
School
option or
elective
OPTION
Practice
30
Credits
Film Studies, Single Honours
Programme outline Level Three
Level Three
Semester One
Semester Two
1 or 2 of these options:
1 or 2 of these options:
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Adaptation: Filming Fiction (new course)
Animals in Film and TV
Alternative Cinemas
Hollywood: Industry and Imaginary
The Musical
Viewing Women
Hollywood Comedian Comedy
Image and Reality in Contemporary Cinema
Race and Ethnicity in Popular Cinema
Sexualities in the Cinema
DISS 90% + RSP 10%
‘Research skills’ workshop
0 or 1 from Media/Cultural Studies/Practice
Documentary:
• Reality TV and ‘Real Lives’
• Everyday Life and Technology
• Genes and Clones: Where Science and Media
Collide
• Media, Publics and Protests
• Working in the Creative Industries
• Consuming Passions or
• Creative Project (Media Practice)
0 or 1 from Media / Cultural Studies
DISS 90% + RSP 10%
Film Studies, Joint Honours
Programme outline Levels One and Two
Level One
Semester One
CORE
Issues in Film Studies
1A. Hollywood and its
others
POF 100%
CORE
Film Analysis:
Narrative, Style and
Technology
POF 100%
Semester Two
Level Two
Semester One
CORE
Issues in Film Studies
2. Global Cinemas
CORE
Film Theory
2 x ESS 50%
GPN 30% + ESS 70%
Semester Two
1 or 2 of options:
Locating Cinema:
British / Cuban / French
/ Indian / Spanish
Film Studies, Joint Honours
Programme outline Level Three
Level Three
Semester One
Semester Two
1 or 2 of these options:
1 or 2 of these options:
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Adaptation: Filming Fiction (new course)
Animals in Film and TV
Alternative Cinemas
Hollywood: Industry and Imaginary
The Musical
Viewing Women
Hollywood Comedian Comedy
Image and Reality in Contemporary Cinema
Race and Ethnicity in Popular Cinema
Sexualities in the Cinema
Media and Communications
in detail
© Column Five
Media and Communications
Single Honours
Programme outline Levels One and Two
Level One
Semester One
Semester Two
Level Two
Semester One
CORE
Questioning in the
Media
CORE
Debates in Media
Studies
CORE
Film Theory
POF 100%
ESS 50% + BLG 25%
+ GPN 25%
GPN 30% + ESS 70%
‘Study Skills’ embedded
OPTION
1 of Advertising and
Social Change; Digital
Cultures; TV Fictions;
Radio: on air, online;
Global Journalism
‘Beginning to research skills’embedded
CORE
Digital Environment
(New course)
CORE
Culture and the
everyday
WBP 100%
LDY 67% + GPN 33%
School option or
elective
Semester Two
School option or
elective
OPTION
Theory Taste
& Trash or
Media
Memory and
Hiistory
School
option or
elective
OPTION
OPTION
1 From above
Practice
Course
30
Credits
School option or
elective
Media and Communications
Single Honours
Programme outline Level Three
Level Three
Semester One
Semester Two
1 or 2 Media / Cultural Studies options:
Dissertation course, 1 or 2 Media options:
• Documentary, Reality TV and ‘Real Lives’
• Everyday Life and Technology
• Genes and Clones: Where Science and Media
Collide
• Media, Publics and Protests
• Working in the Creative Industries
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Globalisation and communication
Music, Media and Culture
Politics of Media Representation
Social Media and Critical Practice (new course)
‘Research skills’ workshop
0 or 1 Media Practice / Film / Cultural Studies
option
• Adaptations (new course)
• Alternative Cinema
• Animals in TV and Film
• Consuming Passions
• The Musical
• Comedy and Cultural Belonging
Or
• Creative Project
Dissertation course, 0 or 1 Film options:
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Contemporary British Cinema
Film Noir (new course)
Hollywood Comedian Comedy
Image and Reality in Contemporary Cinema
Race and Ethnicity in Popular Cinema
Sexualities in the Cinema
Media Studies, Joint Honours
Programme outline Levels One and Two
Level One
Semester One
Semester Two
Level Two
Semester One
Semester Two
CORE
CORE
CORE
OPTION
Questioning the Media
Debates in Media
Studies
News, Politics and
Power
ESS 50%
BLG 25%
GPN 25%
ESS 33%
ESS 67% %
Advertising and Social
Change
Digital Cultures
TV Fictions
Radio: on air online
Global Journalism (new
course)
POF 100%
CORE
Film Analysis:
Narrative, Style and
Technology
POF 100%
Media Studies, Joint Honours
Programme outline Level Three
Level Three
Semester One
Semester Two
OPTION
OPTION
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Genes and Clones
Media, Publics and Protest
Documentary, Reality TV and ‘Real Lives’
Working in the Creative Industries
Everyday Life and Technology
Consuming Passions
Class and Popular Culture
Globalisation and Communication
Music, Media and Culture
The New Audience Research
The Politics of Representation
Social Media and Critical Practice (new course)
Media Practice in detail
Life and Death
Elena Savlokhova and Jana Otte
Media Practice 2012: Documentary
Visualising Lithuanian folktales:
‘Queen of Serpents’
Gabriele Barysaite
Media Practice 2012: Photography
Media Practice, Single Honours
Programme outline Levels One and Two
Level One
Semester One
Semester Two
CORE
Creative Production
(Medium 1)
Video
POF 100%
CORE
Creative Production
(Medium 3)
Sound
CPJ 67% + PCQ 33%
CORE
Creative Production
CORE
Creative Production
(Medium 4)
Digital
CPJ 67% + PCQ 33%
(Medium 2)
Photography
POF 100%
‘Study Skills’ embedded
CORE
Issues in Film Studies 1
Level Two
Semester One
CORE
Creative Media:
(Medium 1)
Animation
Script writing
Video documentary
Photography
Digital
Sound
CPJ 67% + POF 33%
Semester Two
CORE
Creative Media:
(Medium 2)
CPJ 69% + POF 33%
‘Beginning to research skills’ embedded
CORE
Debates in Media
Studies
Professional Media
Practice
POF 33% + POF 67%
Industry projects
(new course)
OPTION - 1 from:
Media, Film, Cultural
Studies or Music
OPTION - 1 from:
Media, Film, Cultural
Studies or Music
POF 100%
ESS 50%
BLG 25%
GPN 25%
Media Practice, Single Honours
Programme outline Level Three
Level Three
Semester One
Semester Two
CORE
Final Creative Project
Project Development
CPJ 67%
POF 33%
RSP 33%
POF 67%
‘Research skills’ workshop
1 option from:
1 option from:
Media, Film, Cultural Studies courses
Media, Film, Cultural Studies courses
Dissertation 90%
Plan 10%
Media Practice, Single Honours
Final year degree show
2011 Media Matters Degree Show Website
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/showcase/mediamatters/index.html
2012 Envision Degree Show Blog
http://envision2012.wordpress.com/
Media and Cultural Studies, Honours
Programme outline Levels One and Two
Level One
Level Two
Semester One
Semester Two
CORE
CORE
CORE
1 Media Option from:
Questioning in the
Media
Debates in Media
Studies P4061
News, Politics, Power
Advertising and Social
Change
Digital Cultures
Journalism and Crisis
(new course)
Radio: on air, online
POF 100%
ESS 50%
BLG 25%
GPN 25%
‘Study Skills’ embedded
Semester One
ESS 33%
ESS 67%
Semester Two
‘Beginning to research skills’ embedded
CORE
1 Option from:
CORE
1 Cultural Studies Option:
Practising Cultural
Studies
The Meaning of Things
Culture Across Space
and Time
Theory Taste and Trash
Race and Ethnicity
Gender, Space and Culture
The Allure of Things
POF 100%
1 Option from:
The Meaning of Things
Culture Across Space
and Time
EXC 33%
ESS 67%
1 Cultural Studies Option:
Race and Ethnicity
Gender, Space and Culture
The Allure of Things
Media and Cultural Studies, Honours
Programme outline Level Three
Level Three
Semester One
Semester Two
1 Media/Cultural Studies Option:
Dissertation Course - 1 Media / Film option:
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Consuming Passions
Documentary, Reality TV and ‘Real Lives’
Everyday Life and Technology
Genes and Clones: Where Sciences and the
Media Collide
• Publics and Protest
• Working in the Creative Industries
• Comedy and Cultural Belonging
Adaptation: Filming Fiction
Globalisation and Communication
Music, Media and Culture
Politics of Media Representation
Sexualities in the Cinema
Social Medial and Critical Practice
(new course)
‘Research skills’ workshop
1 option from:
Dissertation Course – 1 Cultural Studies option:
Media / Cultural Studies / Film
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Class and Popular Culture
Body in Society
Landscape, Nature and Representation
Cultures of Colonialism
Transnationalism and Identity
The skills you will acquire
• Analysis
• Research
• Structure and
organisation
• Presentation
• Practical
How we support you during
your time at Sussex
• Academic Advisor
• Programme Convenor
• Course Tutor
• Student Representatives
• Student Advisors
• Head of Department
+ The benefits of Brighton
Your future beyond Sussex
Media/Film/Media Practice:
Careers Page
Students’ experiences
Whilst studying Media Studies at Sussex University Annalisa
Johnstone gained work experience in post production
projects and working in current affairs with the BBC and Sky
Arts. Annalisa is currently working as a Music Assistant to
the Head of Music at ITV, and is also exploring independent
projects in film and television production.
Annalisa Johnstone
Media Studies, 2011
Students’ experiences
“I gained loads more confidence - in my work and my
personal life and a greater sense of independence!”
Hayley Briggs
Television Researcher
Media Practice, 2009
“I do believe if it were not for receiving a degree from Sussex,
I probably wouldn't have been looked at for the position I
currently hold at ITV.”
Annalisa Johnstone
Music Assistant, ITV
Media Studies, 2011
Any Questions?
Who are we?
Vicky Anderson
Media Practice 2011