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Media and Environmental Communication BA(Hons)

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Intro

We are facing a global climate crisis and people have taken to the streets in protest – if you want to be at the forefront of communicating and campaigning the issues raised by the climate emergency, this is the degree for you.

You will learn how use media to shape society’s understanding of complex issues from global warming to deforestation, sustainability to governmental policy, air pollution to waste management. We will guide you in exploring innovative methods of communicating these crucial issues to the public and in how to motivate individuals to take action.

You will graduate with practical media production skills and in-depth knowledge of critical ecological issues – these will open up career opportunities across the media and creative industries, NGOs, government and the civil service.

During your course you will have opportunities to volunteer and contribute to local efforts towards sustainability. There are also optional overseas field trips.

Key facts

Location Brighton: Moulsecoomb

UCAS code DP43

Full-time 3 years
With placement year 4 years

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In a world of Greta Thunbergs, this sort of course is critical in inviting students to evaluate how the world around us is mediated and the implications of this across physical, social, political, economic and emotional landscapes, particularly in the current climate of uncertainty (pun intended).

Chanelle Manton, Media and Environmental Communication BA(Hons)

Course content

How this course is delivered

We've made some changes to the way our courses are taught to keep everyone safe, connected and involved in university life.

At the moment, students have a blend of on-campus and digitally enabled remote learning that provides lots of opportunities to interact and engage with lecturers and other students.

Find out what these changes mean for this course

Course structure

The course includes the following areas of study:

  • the local and global processes of environmental and social change and their spatial outcomes;
  • the relationship between media, culture and society in a globalised world;
  • contemporary environmental issues and approaches to their management;
  • media industries;
  • IT in community development; and
  • the production and consumption of global environmental imagery and narratives.

It allows you to develop a programme of study that reflects your interests.

What does media have to do with Geography? Read what our student says

Making sure that what you learn with us is relevant, up to date and what employers are looking for is our priority, so courses are reviewed and enhanced on an ongoing basis. When you have applied to us, you’ll be told about any new developments through Student View.

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Year 1

The first year introduces you to the complex interactions between science, policy and culture.

Modules

Core modules

  • Global Environmental Issues

    This module introduces pressing global environmental issues which you'll explore through natural science and social science case studies. The module focuses on scientific, social, economic and political aspects of current and past environmental issues and examines how some of the issues may be addressed through interdisciplinary management and mitigation.

  • Human Geography

    This module provides a critical introduction to key themes in human geography. You will develop an appreciation of geographical concepts such as nature, space, place and scale through consideration of geographies of global political-economic change, past and contemporary cultural geographies and geographical imaginations, and social geographies of everyday life.

  • Community Media for Social Action

    Tools, spaces and processes of community communications form the basis of inquiry into community media and social action. You will engage with theories of empowerment and voice as well as engaging in introductory practices of community media for social action. Your outputs from the practice component will be presented in class before being archived on the student learning space. You will also learn to reflect critically on your experiences and the processes of contextualised content generation through online communicative learning.

  • Critical Approaches to Media 1

    This module will introduce you to a range of critical academic approaches to media. It tackles the most cutting-edge topics in media studies and introduces canonical approaches used in their analysis. An introduction to these approaches will enable you to understand the workings of media audiences, industries and texts. The module will focus on media experiences that are relevant to your everyday life, ensuring that as well as academic development, the module will give you the tools to analyse your own engagement with, and consumption of, the media.

  • Critical Approaches to Media 2

    This module introduces key media studies theories and concepts and applies them to the analysis of real-world issues. You will develop skills and techniques to critique media representations, showing the importance of media analysis in everyday life. By analysing media technologies, you will engage with the most innovative media content, forms and practices of the day. By questioning mediation, the module will bring to life the role of media in society and enable you to critique the media in terms of culture, politics, innovation and environment.

Options*

  • Video Production 1

    This module will equip you with the essential skills and practical experience required to create short-form non-fictional audio-visual content, suitable in form to contemporary web-based - as well as more traditional - delivery platforms and audiences. It covers all three stages of video production: pre-production research and planning, production and post-production, including editing. It will introduce the fundamentals of video and sound-recording techniques as well as give you the skills required for successfully engaging with contributors/participants.

  • Photographic Practice 1

    In this module you will explore the role and use of photography in visual media. You will engage with various aspects of the language and production of promotional and editorial photography. You will respond to set briefs and create your own website that includes an online portfolio as well as learn the core skills in which to consider, articulate and document reflections on your practice.

  • Business, Creative/Digital Industries and Innovation

    On this module you will develop a sense of commercial awareness, including key entrepreneurial skills and knowledge required to engage with innovation in the creative and digital industries. You will work as a part of a team to recognise trends and opportunities and then develop your ideas into a business plan. You will reflect on your ideas, considering issues around collaboration, innovation, sustainability and intellectual property.

  • Creative Industries and Promotional Cultures

    This module will introduce you to the creative and promotional industries such as advertising, public relations, marketing and branding. It offers a historical overview of and contemporary perspectives on their development and change. You will engage critically with questions surrounding the political economy of the cultural industries, new consumer practices and the politics of consumption, and will develop an understanding of a range of mainstream practices as well as critical interventions in the language and dynamics of promotional cultures.

  • Film Language and History

    This module will introduce you to the contribution made by the formal language of cinema (cinematography, editing, sound, shot composition, etc.) in establishing a film’s narrative. The module will frame the history of mainstream Western cinema, through reference to the key technical, institutional and economic developments of the medium.

  • Past Landscapes and People

    This module introduces key concepts surrounding past societies and the way they viewed, interacted with, and changed their environment. You will explore the techniques and theories that archaeologists use to engage with the past, and how the subject of archaeology interacts with physical and human geography. You will explore human impacts on past environments and put how the modern landscape has been created through the human activities into context. 

*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.

Environment and Media Studies BA(Hons)

Year 2

Year 2 greatly expands your number of options in both environment and media studies.

Modules

  • Sustainable Development 
  • Research Methods and Methodology
  • Media Placement

Options*

  • Environmental Pollution
  • Social and Cultural Geography
  • GIS and Remote Sensing Principles and Practice
  • Video Production 2
  • Photographic Practice 2
  • Social Media Applications in Activism, Business and Life
  • Media and Political Engagement in the Post-truth Era
  • Community Radio
  • Brands and Branding
  • Visual Media Culture
  • Media Project Management
  • Media and Public Relations
  • Journalism
  • Film Studies
  • Popular Music 
  • Mobile Media Cultures
  • Critical Perspectives on Media Work

*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.

 

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Placement year

Short placement

During the second year of study you will undertake a four week professional work placement in an environment or media-related organisation. Placements are usually unpaid. You will receive guidance to help you focus your search from a dedicated placement team who will support you with writing your CV and cover letter, making online applications, setting up a portfolio and managing your online presence. 

Placements are academically assessed and your degree award will reflect your industry experience. 

For examples of places where students have undertaken please see the careers section below. 

Optional placement year

You can also choose to spend your third year on a year-long placement extending your studies to four years.

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Final year

For your dissertation, you can either write a traditional essay or do a production-based project. The rest of the final year consists of optional modules for you to choose from as you start thinking about life beyond university.

Modules

  • Dissertation

Options*

  • Aquatic Environments
  • Geographies of Heritage
  • Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Water, Sanitation and Health
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Waste Management and the Circular Economy
  • Gender, Space and the Body
  • Political Ecology: Contested Environments
  • Territory, Power and Security
  • Advanced GIS and Remote Sensing
  • Audiovisual Professional Practice
  • National and Global Media Studies
  • Media Policy
  • Mediating Science and Technology
  • Critical Approaches to the Video Game
  • Celebrity Media
  • Sustainability and Innovation in Digital Culture
  • Digital Media Marketing and Innovation
  • Critical Issues in Political Communication
  • Communication for International Development
  • Community Project
  • Genre and Film

*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.

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Facilities 

  • Digital and analogue stills equipment, including DSLRs and a range of lenses plus an offsite darkroom 
  • Video recording equipment, from Canon DSLRs to Blackmagic cameras, in a dedicated TV studio 
  • Audio recording kit and facilities, including bookable sound/radio booths 
  • Dedicated video editing suites including Mac and PC computers with specialist software.
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Meet the team

Patricia Prieto-Blanco, course leader
Patricia Prieto-Blanco lectures in photography in media studies, but defines herself as a critical thinker and visual maker. Her research interests are: photography, methods and methodologies, mediation of the everyday and migration. Patricia employs photography and video-art as ways to subvert neo-liberal, capitalist, patriarchal norms.

Find out about our other teaching staff
Julie Doyle,  Olu Jenzen, Paula Hearsum, Aristea Fotopoulou, Paul Ryan, Theo Koulouris, Irmi Karl, Peter Day, Julia Winckler, Ryan Burns, Patricia Prieto-Blanco, Paula Hearsum, Lance Dann, Maria Short, Martin de Saulles, Lestyn George, Doug Lyon, Paul Gilchrist, Rebecca Elmhirst, James Ebdon, Leila Dawney, Jason Lim

Patricia, course leader

Meet our students

Tegan Sonvico-Christov

“I'm really enjoying the course. It's important to realise how multidisciplinary it is – we go into classes from media studies, environmental studies and human geography. I personally love the mix because it's almost impossible to get bored and it can open your mind and take you to interests you wouldn't discover otherwise. I aspire to train as an environmental journalist after I graduate.”

Lola Odessey-Waters

“I really enjoy the course. So far I have really been able to merge my personal interest (photography, drawing, music) with the course thanks to the support of the tutors. The media side of the course and the environmental are very much complementary; the reading of one module is often very useful for another. I have really enjoyed the hands-on side of the course, with a field trip to Morocco and practice-based work for media.”

Charles El-Zeind

"The main reason I picked this course was because it combined two very different subjects which form a very interesting relationship with each other. It gave me the opportunity to learn how to use them so as to inform and educate people about environmental issues.

"The most interesting aspect of the course was relating the issues discussed in our classes with the actual world, and gaining further perception of how things work. The lecturers provided a lot of support and feedback, and all of my encounters with them gave me a positive feeling, reassuring me that in times of need I would have somewhere to turn to."

Tegan Sonvico-Christov

Tegan Sonvico-Christov on a march against climate change

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Established a decade ago, Media and Environmental Communication (MEC) BA Hons programme is a unique one in the UK, in that not only equips students with the required knowledge to critically engage with current climate movements, but it does so without narrowing your opportunities after graduation to a specific industry or sector.

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63% of students who took our media industry module in 2019 were offered a role as a result of their placement.

Careers

Prepare for your career

You will develop valuable transferable skills in critical thinking and writing, independent research and analysis. The course will also equip you with excellent presentation, written and oral communication skills.

 Option modules span areas such as video production, branding, social geography, aquatic environment and media policy, enabling you to tailor your degree to your specific interests.

The Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) offers opportunities to contribute to local efforts toward sustainability.

Visiting media professionals including producers, journalists and digital media entrepreneurs will share their experience, giving a window into the creative and business aspects of the media industry.

The combination of skills acquired on the course and through placements will give you the ability to contribute as a professional in any media environment across business, charities and the public sector giving you a head start in your chosen career.

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Placements 

In your second year you will undertake a four-week professional placement.

In year 3 you have the opportunity to extend your degree with an optional year-long placement.

Placements give you the ability to:

  • apply your learning to real life situations and challenges   
  • make confident and informed decision about the direction of your media career
  • get an insight in to how businesses and organisations function  
  • develop existing skills and discover new ones;    
  • explore career options    
  • make professional contacts   
  • create an effective CV and digital media presence
  • build confidence and organisational skills.

Recent placement destinations include the Department of Energy and Climate Change, Transport for London, and a renewable energy research centre in Spain.

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Showcasing your talent 

At the end of your studies you will be invited to exhibit your work at the Graduate Show, an event which turns the university into one of the biggest exhibition spaces in the South East. 

Find out more about the Graduate Show.

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Graduate destinations  

Students in this area have gone on to work in environmental charities, pressure groups, environmental journalism, public relations, local government and the civil service.

Environmental students on field study in the countryside

Further study 

This degree also opens up a range of postgraduate study options. At Brighton, for example, you could progress on to:

  • Digital Media Arts (MA)
  • Digital Music and Sound Arts (MA)
  • Digital Media, Culture and Society (MA)
  • Photography (MA).

Our PGCE courses open up careers in teaching at primary and secondary level

You could also choose to complete your PhD at Brighton. See more about our research Centre for Digital Media Culture.

Supporting your employability 

Outside of your course, our Careers Service is here to support you as you discover (and re-discover) your strengths and what matters to you. We are here for you throughout your university journey as you work towards a fulfilling and rewarding career.

Connect with our careers team

  • Find part-time work that you can combine with your studies.
  • Find, or be, a mentor or get involved with our peer-to-peer support scheme.
  • Develop your business ideas through our entrepreneurial support network.
  • Get professional advice and support with career planning, CV writing and interview top tips.
  • Meet potential employers at our careers fairs.
  • Find rewarding volunteering opportunities to help you discover more about what makes you tick, and build your CV.

Whatever your career needs, we are here to help. And that's not just while you are a student, our support carries on after you've graduated.

Find out more...

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Brighton's digital economy  

Home to over 1,000 companies in the digital sector, Brighton is well established as one of the UK’s leading centres for creative media technology.

The university is the lead academic partner of the Digital Catapult Centre Brighton, which helps entrepreneurs and small businesses bring their digital services and products to market.

As a student you can find internships and a doorway to job opportunities across the city through Wired Sussex, a local membership organisation for companies and individuals working in the digital sector.

Each year you’ll also get to enjoy the Brighton Digital Festival which brings together the city’s arts and digital cultures and communities. The festival welcomes around 47,000 visitors and features more than 150 events.

Employment demand for arts graduates 

The British Academy has compiled a report (May 2020) quantifying the demand for arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) skills in the workplace. It helps to answer the legitimate question of what the economic return is on undertaking a degree, both in time and money. 

According to the report:

  • As arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) graduates progress through the first ten years of their career they are able make strong progress up the career ladder into roles attracting higher salaries
  • Arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) graduates are employed in some of the fastest growing sectors including financial services, education, social work, the media and creative industries
  • Of the ten fastest growing sectors, eight employ more graduates from AHSS than other disciplines

This makes AHSS graduates at the heart of some of the most exciting, productive, largest and fastest-growing sectors of the UK economy.

Future skills demand

According to the report:

  • With the challenges the world is facing – climate change, global pandemics, the growth of populism – the UK needs the insights of the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) as much as those from science, technology and engineering (STEM)
  • Evidence within the report shows that Arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) graduates are central to these challenges and changes – they will be vital in giving us the tools to examine and explain human behaviour, understand how society functions, learn from the past and apply those lessons to the present, and analyse the drivers and implications of a changing world and how different countries, places and cultures interact.

Entry criteria

Entry requirements

A-levels or BTEC
Entry requirements are in the range of A-level BBC–CCC (112–96 UCAS Tariff points), or BTEC Extended Diploma DMM–MMM. Our conditional offers typically fall within this range.

International Baccalaureate
26 points, with three subjects at Higher level.

Access to HE Diploma
pass with 60 credits overall. At least 45 credits at level 3, with 24 credits at merit or above.

Foundation degree/HND/HNC
May enable you to start the course in year 2.

Studied before or got relevant experience?
A qualification, HE credits or relevant experience may count towards your course at Brighton, and could mean that you do not have to take some elements of the course or can start in year 2 or 3. 

English language requirements
IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each element. Find out more about the other English qualifications that we accept.

International requirements and visas

International requirements by country
Country name
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belgium
Bermuda
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burma (Myanmar)
Cameroon
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Ecuador
Egypt
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guyana
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kosovo
Kuwait
Latvia
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Libya
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malaysia
Malawi
Malta
Mexico
Moldova
Montenegro
Morocco
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palestinian National Authority
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russian Federation
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Syria
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tanzania
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

We can help you meet our English language or academic entry requirements.

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Fees

Course fees

UK (full-time) 9,250 GBP

International (full-time) 14,748 GBP

If you choose to take the professional placement (sandwich) year offered on this course you will pay a reduced fee during this year. Our fee for the professional placement year is £1,330 for UK students and £2,100 for international students. This fee may be subject to small increases, in line with inflation.

What's included

You may have to pay additional costs during your studies, although we have tried to keep this to a minimum. The cost of optional activities is not included in your tuition fee and you will need to meet this cost in addition to your fees. A summary of the costs that you may be expected to pay, and what is included in your fees, while studying a course in the School of Media are listed here.

  • There will be opportunities to attend field trips and off-site visits. These are optional and are not required to pass your course but you can budget approximately £30–£700 for these. The nature of the costs vary from provisions for a packed-lunch to flight and accommodation costs for international field trips. The amount spent would be based on location and number of trips taken.
  • Typically, practice-based courses incur more costs than text-based subjects. These costs are normally associated with specialist equipment and materials for making work and for the public presentation of work.
  • Specialist equipment is provided to cover essential learning. Students may choose to buy their own specialist equipment, these may include cameras, or computers and software. Budgets can range from £50–£2,000. Buying specialist equipment is best undertaken in consultation with our academic and technical staff. This expenditure is not essential to pass any of our courses.
  • For some courses you will need to budget up to £200 for printing and publishing. Photography courses may incur higher costs (£500–£2,000) when printing and framing images of professional standard for public presentation.
  • Course books are available from the university but you may wish to budget up to £200 to buy your own copies.
  • For some courses you will need to budget up to £150 for stationery.
  • Final-year graduation shows are opportunities to present your final, independent project work to the public. Practice-based courses will typically incur higher costs. Depending on the specific nature of your final project you will need to budget between £20–£2,500. 

You can chat with our enquiries team through the Stay in touch panel at the end of this page if you require further information. Or check our finance pages for advice about funding and scholarships, as well as more information about fees and advice on international and island fee-paying status.

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The fees listed here are for full-time courses beginning in the academic year 2021–22.

Further tuition fees are payable for each subsequent year of study and are subject to an annual increase of no more than 5% or RPI (whichever is the greater). The annual increase for UK students, who are subject to regulated fees, will increase no more than the statutory maximum fee.

You can find out more about our fees in the university's student contract and tuition fee policy (pdf).

The tuition fee you have to pay depends on a number of factors including the kind of course you take, and whether you study full-time or part-time. If you are studying part-time you will normally be charged on a pro rata basis depending on the number of modules you take.

Location

Local area

About Brighton

The city of Brighton & Hove is a forward-thinking place which leads the way in the arts, technology, sustainability and creativity. You'll find living here plays a key role in your learning experience.

Brighton is a leading centre for creative media technology, recently named the startup capital of the UK.

The city is home to a national 5G testbed and over 1,000 tech businesses. The digital sector is worth over £1bn a year to the local economy - as much as tourism.

All of our full-time undergraduate courses involve work-based learning - this could be through placements, live briefs and guest lectures. Many of these opportunities are provided by local businesses and organisations.

It's only 50 minutes by train from Brighton to central London and less than 40 minutes to Eastbourne. There are also daily direct trains to Bristol, Bedford, Cambridge, Gatwick Airport, Portsmouth and Southampton.

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Campus where this course is taught

Moulsecoomb campus

Two miles north of Brighton seafront, Moulsecoomb is our largest campus. Subjects taught here include architecture, business, computing, construction, engineering, geography, product design, law and pharmacy.

On campus you will find professional-standard facilities including a flight simulator, trading room, design and digital media suites and specialist research laboratories, alongside the library, student centre, a nursery, fitness facilities and Students’ Union. There are excellent public transport links.

The Big Build
A major transformation of our Moulsecoomb campus began in summer 2018. By the time the Big Build is complete, there’ll be new halls of residence, academic building, and Students’ Union and fitness facilities – all created with sustainability, inclusivity and community in mind.

As the development grows it will provide many exciting learning opportunities for our students, ranging from live projects, placements and internships with the companies involved to guest lectures and site visits.

The Big Build

Accommodation

Brighton: Moulsecoomb

We guarantee an offer of a place in halls of residence to all eligible students.

Halls of residence
We have halls of residence across Brighton in the city centre, Moulsecoomb, Varley Park and Falmer.

  • You'll be prioritised for accommodation in the halls that are linked to your teaching base, subject to availability.
  • Moulsecoomb campus is linked to Varley Park and Moulsecoomb Place halls. All halls are self catered, but if you prefer you can add in a food and drink plan.
    • Varley Park offers a mix of rooms. It is around two miles from Moulsecoomb campus and four miles from the city centre. Public transport in the city is excellent, and there’s a shuttle bus between our Brighton campuses during term time.
    • Moulsecoomb Place halls are all self-catered and are located right on campus.

Want to live independently or in a university-managed house? We can help – find out more about unihomes and unilets or private renting.

Modern accommodation at nearby Varley Halls

Modern accommodation at nearby Varley Park

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Relaxing in halls near the campus

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Students eating at the Hub

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Find out more about how the academic year and degree courses are organised, and about learning and assessment activities you might get to grips with at Brighton. More specific information about this course is detailed in the programme specification (linked above). You can find out also about the range of support we offer to help you adjust to university life.

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Programme specification

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