If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with 5.5 in each component.
Our Contemporary Media Practice BA is built on our long tradition of teaching interdisciplinary media practice, working across moving image, photography and interactive media.
Our unique approach combines the creative exploration of art school traditions with academic and professional excellence. We have extensive industry-level facilities and equipment, and to develop your skills and knowledge we use a variety of assessment methods, including practical projects, presentations, written work, research tasks and portfolios.
Our course sets high standards for professional achievement in specific media industry roles, and prepares you for the challenge of a multi-skilled portfolio career. You'll also gain the transferable and cognitive skills necessary for lifelong personal and professional development.
Our graduates have a high employment rate across the media industries, including broadcast television; commercial photography and photojournalism; curating and film programming; film direction, production, editing and visual effects; fine art practice; and new media.
Studying this course will enable you to develop your creative media production skills across a range of disciplines, and give you the ability to adapt to the creative opportunities of new media forms and hybrids. It will enhance your ability to participate in contemporary cultural debates, and develop your awareness of the political, ethical and aesthetic implications of your work.
The course is part of the University of Westminster's School of Arts, based at our state-of-the-art Harrow Campus – a cutting-edge creative hub, and one of the leading media, arts and design educational facilities in Europe.
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Year 1
Subjects of study include:
Skills in the core media for Contemporary Media Practice: moving image; photography; digital and interactive media; studios and equipment; editing and post-production; professional working with actors, locations and media content.
Practical projects; creative working and developing ideas; pitching; group and solo working.
Media Explorations: experimental practices, exploring the traditions and futures of the core media.
Introduction to Contemporary Media Theory: the core theory essential to an understanding of contemporary media, culture and arts.
Media Representations: theories and practices of representation in the arts and media.
Credit Level 4
Year 2
Subjects of study include:
Media Frontiers: practical work that explores and tests the boundaries of current media, choosing from moving image, photographic and interactive media.
Convergent Media: responding to the varieties of convergence in producing and consuming media through a practical project.
Live Projects: work experience, commissions, curating and live events.
Critical Perspectives on Media: advanced approaches to the analysis of media, leading to a focus on a chosen media tradition.
Research and Synthesis: developing your own interests in theory and analysis, leading to defining a subject for your final year dissertation or extended research essay.
With options available that include:
Transmedia Practices – exploring related practices and traditions, such as animation, sound design, software art, and motion graphics.
Scriptwriting for Media: writing for film, television and emerging formats.
Art/Science Collaboration: projects developed with students from disciplines such as Psychology, Biosciences and Computing.
Creative Encounters: working with students from other Media, Arts and Design disciplines.
Credit Level 5
Year 3
Subjects of study include:
Exploration and Pre-Production: you conceive a large scale final year project, and take that through pre-production planning.
Major Project: your culminating practical work on the course.
Dissertation or Extended Research Essay: where you apply theory and critical approaches to a subject of your choice, with rigour and in depth.
Professional Launchpad: professional networking, mentoring, planning a career and preparing to promote yourself.
Credit Level 6
Job roles
Graduates of the Contemporary Media Practice BA have gone on to success in a range of careers, including:
Digital content creation
Digital and web design
Events curation
Moving image production (film, video and animation)
Social media management
Graduate employment
Graduates from our course have gained employment or worked with many high-profile companies and organisations, including:
AirBnB
BBC
British Film Institute
Channel 4
Disney
Guggenheim Museum
ITV
Little Dot Studios
Marvel
Mail on Sunday
Netflix
Red Bee Media
The Times
Unruly Media
Vertigo Films
Vision3.tv
Our graduates have also gone on to postgraduate study at prestigious institutions such as:
Columbia University (USA)
National Film and Television School
Royal College of Art
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
