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About the Course

The BA Joint Honours in Media and Sociology is designed to enable you to develop interdisciplinary learning and provide a firm grounding in the key debates, concepts and initiatives that inform and underpin the media and society. This degree is less communications theory based than the single honours degree.

You will be provided with the core content of both the BSc Communications, Media and Society and the BA Sociology degrees but will also be able to pick optional modules, allowing you to tailor your degree to your personal interests. Our supportive and stimulating learning environment will help you to develop the ability to work independently and will foster skills in critical analysis, communication, research methods, group work and employability.

First Year

You will study the following modules:

• The Media in Britain
• Social Change, Identity and Behaviour
• Research Methods 1
• The Study of Media Audiences
• The Media in the International Context
• Society in Transformation.

Second Year

You will undertake modules in:

• Media, Identity and the Popular
• Research Methods 2
• Social Class and Inequalities
• The Communication of Politics
• Analysing Communication Processes

You will also take one of the following sociology modules:

• Sociology of Deviance
• Youth Culture and Politics
• Gender, Sex and Mortality
• Health, Illness and the Body
• Self and Society

Third Year

During your Third Year you will undertake your dissertation, either in the field of mass communication or in sociology.

You will also take a research project and four modules from the following:

• Living with Risk
• The Media, Celebrity and Fan Culture
• Football and Society
• Advertising, Culture and Communication
• Urban Life and Social Control
• Film Text/Film Context
• Global Affairs
• Communications, Culture and Power
• Media, Language and Interaction
• Music as Communication
• Ageing, Death and the Life Course
• Global Poverty and Development
• Science, Technology, Culture and Power
• A Global Perspective; Media and the Body
• The Sociology of Fashion
• Activism and Protest in the Information Age

Please note the number of optional modules available may vary from year to year.

Contact

Admissions Secretary, Anne Jacques
0116 252 3863
Fax: 0116 252 5276
mediacom@le.ac.uk
www.le.ac.uk/mediacom/

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