Undergraduate courses

This exciting and challenging Level 4 course will enable you to develop your creative, academic and professional potential in design, media and screen. You'll be able to develop your skills in your preferred specialism, including graphic design, advertising, journalism, branded spaces, public relations, illustration, animation, film and photography.

BA (Hons) Animation is a practice-led course, enabling you to choose one of two specialist pathways: Experimental and Character. You’ll gain entrepreneurial skills, develop expertise across the production process, and learn how flexibility can help you deal with the challenges of being a professional animator.

On BA (Hons) Computer Animation and Visual Effects, you’ll explore the intersection of creativity and technology – developing your own critical voice while learning professional 3D and VFX software and techniques.

BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Cultures explores the role that media, cultural and creative processes play in shaping today’s world and helps you to develop your critical thinking in practical ways.

BA (Hons) Design for Art Direction will develop the practical, conceptual and leadership skills you’ll need for a career in art direction and creative production. The course emphasises collaboration across a range of practice areas to prepare you for professional roles in creative industries.

Learn the strategic, leadership and production skills needed to design and deliver creative and innovative solutions to business, social and global challenges.

BA (Hons) Film Practice has been developed for students with a passion for independent cinema. Working across documentary and fiction, this hands-on, industry-oriented course offers a strong, practical emphasis on digital film production.

On BA (Hons) Film and Screen Studies you’ll expand your expertise in film history and theory, whilst developing industry-focused skills in journalism, programming, curation and distribution.

BA (Hons) Film and Television combines intensive hands-on practice in a range of genres, forms and formats from experimental filmmaking to mainstream TV. You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the key movements, makers and theories that have shaped film and television in the 21st Century.

BA (Hons) Games Art gives you the tools and skillset to bring your worlds and characters to life. Prepare for a career in games by expressing your unique ideas and unleashing your creative potential.

Create original playable worlds and define your creative approach with industry-ready skills in game development, programming, UX and playtesting on BA (Hons) Games Design.

BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design will develop your graphic and visual design skills as you work with a diverse range of experimental processes across multiple technologies. You’ll graduate with the skills, understanding and experience needed to help shape the future of the design industry.

BA (Hons) Graphic Branding and Identity will develop your design communication skills and strategic thinking as you explore how brands influence us and help us connect with people. You’ll engage with industry to discover how brand strategy leads to design excellence and positive change.

BA (Hons) Illustration and Visual Media aims to produce creative and innovative illustrators who are used to taking risks with their work. It offers you the intellectual and creative space to examine existing definitions of illustration whilst exploring future directions.

BA (Hons) Immersive Media and Mixed Reality is a multidisciplinary, practical course that explores narrative-led immersive experiences. With access to industry-standard production technologies, you'll shape the future of the exciting and ever-evolving entertainment, film and games industries.

On BA (Hons) Interaction Design, you’ll design impactful products, systems and services for diverse audiences. Choose from 3 pathways: Creative Technologies, User Experience and Systems and Services.

Kickstart your media career on BA (Hons) Journalism. You’ll build practical skills and explore wider social and political contexts to develop stories that matter.

BA (Hons) Journalism and Publishing is a hands-on, industry-facing course that will develop your professional skills in digital and print publishing alongside multiplatform journalism.

Join BA (Hons) Marketing Communications to combine creative and strategic skills, emerging as an innovator in the fast-moving world of marketing and brand communication.

BA (Hons) Media Communications is focused on the social and cultural impact of digital media forms and will help you develop a critical understanding of new communications technologies.

BA (Hons) Music Production prepares you for a career as a highly skilled music and audio producer.

BA (Hons) Photography and Creative Industries will immerse you in new ways to innovate in photography, filmmaking and creative direction for personal work, editorials, commissions and branded content.

Specialist workshops will build your confidence in lighting, image-making and editing, while helping you to unlock your creative voice, pitch ideas and collaborate with creative teams to produce attention-grabbing visuals.

Develop your ideas through theory, professional practice and technical expertise on BA (Hons) Photography, graduating as a critically engaged, conceptually driven creative.

Frame your unique perspective and gain industry-ready skills across news, current affairs, documentary, editorial and multimedia on BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography.

BA (Hons) Sound Arts: Design develops you as a distinctive sound artist and sonic practitioner, working across immersive audio, contemporary art, performance, moving image and installation.

BA (Hons) Sound Arts: Experimental Music will develop your passion for sonic experimentation as you explore methods and techniques in composition, performance, improvisation and installation. You’ll immerse yourself in contemporary music-making technologies, learn about experimental music scenes and practices, and work collaboratively across a diverse range of media and contexts.

Specialise in sound design, Dolby Atmos, Foley and audio post-production for film, TV, games and immersive media on BA (Hons) Sound for Screen.