Media Studies

Course structure

• Before you start

  You may be required to complete an activity before you start in order to help introduce you to the subject. Check back in the summer term for more details.

• Course content

  Using new-media and real-world examples, you will learn to undertake detailed research, plan, produce and present work, build skills in digital technologies while developing and demonstrating your creativity. The highly transferable skills you will develop can be applied across a wide range of other areas.

  This course places contemporary media in a historical context and will provide you with an understanding of the key media concepts of language, representation, narrative, audiences and Institutions. Looking at a variety of media forms, from film to print to the internet, you will engage in discussions, debates, case studies and personal research.

  You will also produce an assessed practical project in each year – a music magazine and either a film trailer or music video.

   You are also encouraged to supplement your programme with the Extended Project.

  Find out about The Extended Project

• Life after Henley

  Whilst students may continue on to study creative media and communications related subjects at degree level, this course is also highly relevant to those wishing to enter the workplace.

  Last year students went on to a variety of destinations including university of places at Newcastle, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, London Metropolitan, Winchester and Oxford Brookes.