BA (Hons) Communication, Media and Culture Bachelor's degree at Oxford Brookes University

Learn practical skills of authoring and editing needed to produce effective texts. Create a portfolio of written work in various genres and edit other people's writing.

Develop skills as an independent learner and researcher: identifying typical research practices, interpreting evidence from original research, and critically evaluating research arguments. Develop argumentation skills to explain understanding and present evaluation in writing.

Learn three approaches to the study of communication - process, semiotic and cultural. Study elements of human communication and theoretical models. Consider cultural differences in communication, how meaning is created, the role of the 'self' in communication, and how we learn to communicate.

Investigate key theories and concepts of culture. Explore the impact of modern culture on individuals and society. Examine cultural artefacts through three key themes: identity, power and representation.

Examine key concepts and concerns in the study of the media. Analyse a wide range of contemporary examples to explore ways in which the media are used for communication, consumption and control. Employ a range of theories to learn about the impact and significance of the media.

Explore how digital technologies are shaping everyday lives within commercial, educational, social and entertainment contexts. Examine aspects of digital cultures through objects and practices. Reflect on issues of identity, relationships, privacy, truth, and power through researching aspects of your own digital life and experiences.

Explore what it means to know something and whether knowledge is different from mere belief. Study great thinkers of the past including Plato, Descartes, Hume, Locke and Berkeley. Focus on key debates about knowledge today and gain analytical skills considering the meaning of perception, hearsay, knowledge of the world beyond our minds, and scientific accounts of knowledge.

Gain critical skills to analyse popular representations of crime in the media. Examine news reports and other forms of mass-media. Develop knowledge of crime as a cultural construct.

Enhance your power and ability as a creative writer through workshops involving reading, writing, discussion and feedback. Practise writing, explore the interplay of creativity and craft, and analyse how you work as a writer. Produce a portfolio of original creative writing and a study of the aims and processes of your creative work.

Investigate the role of digital media in young people's identity practices across a range of practices and platforms. Look at changing ways in which commercial, political and social identities are researched and understood online. Consider how selfhood is expressed and communicated, perceptions of private and public identity, and issues of engagement and exclusion by gender, age, class and geopolitics.

Gain invaluable speaking and writing skills for your future career. Understand key rhetorical practices and how they affect society. Explore rhetorical tools likely to produce social change. Craft persuasive messages that are clear, attractive, well-crafted and ethical.

Look at the role of the audience in mass communication and how understanding of this shapes approaches to research. Examine conceptualisations of media audiences from early media panics to contemporary ideas about users and 'prod-users' online. Consider a range of approaches to audience research in workshops.