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Page last updated 7 October 2024
Launch your career in the media, arts and creative industries by studying a unique blend of theory, practical media-making and professional industry practices. Innovative content and evolving research methods will ensure you develop the essential skills to work in this thriving sector and beyond.
On our flexible, interdisciplinary BA(Hons) Culture, Media and Creative Industries you’ll specialise in cultural theory, media practice work, the creative industries, or blend all three.
Understand how media and communication shape, and are shaped by, culture and society, and you’ll have the power to impact them.
You’ll gain knowledge in key concepts, theories and debates relating to social justice, sustainability, power and representation within the context of media, culture and society.
Explore the historical and technological development of media and communications practices and their change-making role in social movements and civic campaigns while critically analysing established media conventions.
Apply this critical understanding to your own media and creative practices and go on to innovate and disrupt these growing global industries in your future career.
Learn from creative industry professionals with a wide range of specialisms who are active in internationally recognised research, have extensive industry expertise or both. Through small class sizes, your lecturers will give you personalised guidance, shaping your creative practice and future creative career.
Work with our external partners in Bristol’s thriving cultural and media sector, offering you strong links to key creative media-makers and cultural organisations. These include powerhouses like the Watershed, Pervasive Media Studio, Arnolfini and MShed’s collection of museums, as well as small-scale innovative, independent producers and artists.
You’ll also showcase your work to talent scouts and creative professionals at our final year Degree Show, offering potential employment opportunities after graduation.
This course will suit you if you’re interested in media and the arts and creative industries, regardless of your future career plans.
When you graduate, your skillset will prepare you for creative roles in broad media production contexts where effective communication, storytelling, media-making and industry knowledge are sought after.
Benefit from strong career prospects in both public and private sectors, from marketing and PR to charities and cultural organisations, such as museums.
You'll register onto our BA(Hons) Culture, Media and Creative Industries. As you progress through the course, you'll have the opportunity to specialise in different areas via module choices and to graduate with the BA(Hons) Culture, Media and Creative Industries award.
The structure and content of this new course is currently under review and subject to final UWE Bristol approval. It will be published on this page as soon as possible.
Focusing on Bristol as a centre of arts and culture you'll test concepts, theories and ideas often using the city and its creative industries as a living brief.
Teaching is research-informed, and you’ll learn through a mix of lectures, small group seminars, specialist and technical workshops, field trips, projects, placements, student-led research and live briefs.
Collaborate with research-active academic teaching staff, many of whom work closely with Bristol's media and creative organisations. Some are also involved in research through UWE Bristol's Digital Cultures Research Centre.
Take part in research events, guest lectures and conferences and student-led and public-facing projects.
Gaining experience across various aspects of media communication and cultural theory in Year one you'll then shape your degree through your module choices.
In your final year you'll produce a major practical project or dissertation to showcase your making or writing skills.
See our full glossary of learning and teaching terms.
On average you'll attend class activities for 10-12 hours a week over 24 weeks with additional time allocated for technical production workshops and working on group projects.
Outside class time we expect you to prepare course readings and complete writing and research exercises, essays, production exercises and projects.
Assessments are comprised of group and individual work, including written case study or research essays, presentations, media-making projects and client live briefs.
Industry-facing assessments include portfolios containing your own selection of documents like press releases, blog posts or campaign strategies.
Media-making projects might include still and moving images, photo books, interactive video, digital design work and a practice-based portfolio containing a film, reflective workbook and verbal critique.
In your final year you’ll choose between a written dissertation or media-making project to play to your strengths, whether that’s academic writing, practical making or both.
See our full glossary of assessment terms.
In the summer break of Year two you’ll take a compulsory work placement for up to 20 days or equivalent. You’ll source the placement yourself with support from your course lecturers and UWE Bristol’s career service.
In previous years students have completed their work placement at companies such as the BBC, Sky Sports TV, the National Trust and Disney Productions.
You’ll also get to work with external partners in your final year as part of the compulsory Creative Cultural Industries Work Placement module.
If you choose the four-year (sandwich) course, you'll spend a year away from the University on a work placement after Year two. Your placement will be at least 26 weeks long and relevant to your course.
You can choose to complete your sandwich year work placement abroad to gain international experience.
Get help to find placements and support throughout from department staff and our award-winning careers service.
You’ll explore the region through field trips that leverage Bristol’s rich cultural and media sector. This will inform and enhance your academic work at no additional cost to you.
You can also attend optional research trips to cultural events, art galleries, exhibitions or festivals to supplement your coursework-based field research.
In previous years students have taken field trips to the V&A and Wellcome Collection in London as well as more locally to MShed in Bristol.
As well as inspiring your own creative ideas and projects these visits could give you an opportunity to find out about jobs in these industries.
You'll be based at Frenchay Campus and have some classes at City Campus at Watershed and Arnolfini.
Learn in bespoke computing suites with creative media software and areas for moving and still image production.
Use HD video cameras, digital SLRs and software for photographic, video and web-based production on Apple Macs and PCs.
Our experienced technicians will build your production skills in our multimedia labs and familiarise you with emerging media platforms.
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Study Culture, Media and Creative Industries and you’ll gain the industry expertise and experience, academic research and theory and media-making knowledge to boost your employability. You’ll graduate with the transferable skills you need for a successful creative career in the private or public sector.
Gain in-demand skills with anticipated future growth, making you a desirable graduate in growing areas such as digital marketing, project management and digital content creation. These skills include analysis, collaboration, creativity, user experience, SEO, audio and video skills.
Develop a diverse range of skills in production (digital photo and video, sound design, interactive and online media production and software), campaigning, promotion, project management and presenting. You’ll also build strong verbal and written communication skills, practice-based making skills and academic skills in critical thinking, research, argumentation and audience understanding.
Discover a vibrant mix of media arts, innovation and activism while engaging with Bristol’s creative and cultural industries. Connecting with media and creative organisations will help you to build your professional network and seek potential employment opportunities after graduation.
You’ll have several opportunities to gain industry experience through our final year work placement module and optional sandwich year. Work experience doesn’t only make you more likely to graduate with a better degree - it also advances your industry knowledge and professional development, making you a sought-after graduate.
Build strong enterprise skills, self-reliance and confidence that’ll give you the flexibility to adopt the latest digital media innovations in this future-facing field. You’ll also reflect on global issues, considering sustainable solutions to the human impact on the environment.
Your transferable skills will be relevant across broad media production contexts including marketing, PR, community media, small to medium enterprises and the heritage, museum, arts and charity sectors.
Our award-winning careers service will develop your employment potential through career coaching and find you graduate jobs, placements and global opportunities.
We can also help find local volunteering and community opportunities, provide support for entrepreneurial activity and get you access to employer events.
Visit our employability pages to learn more about careers, employers and what our students are doing six months after graduating.
There is currently no published fee data for this course.
Your overall entitlement to funding is based on how long the course is that you're registered on. Standard funding is allocated based on the standard number of years that your course lasts, plus one additional year.
You'll apply for funding each year that you study and Student Finance will take into account how long the course is in each year that you apply. So if you register for the three year course and then transfer to the four year course, the number of years you can apply for funding will change. Student Finance will reassess your funding based on how many years you've been in study, not just those years for which you received student finance.
Always seek advice before taking any action that may have implications for your funding.
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