Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Broadcast Media Production (Top-up) (Teesside University)
Course Information
Description
Programme Objectives
Broadcast media production equips you with skills within TV, audio, radio, film and interactive media. The programme gives students the opportunity to develop skills within a variety of disciplines and access to many different career opportunities.
The overall aims of the programme are to:
- Produce distinctive employment-ready graduates who are producers of creative and informed work that is relevant to contemporary multi-platform broadcast media industries.
- Produce adaptive, imaginative and critically-aware graduates who have a broad contextual understanding and high-level technical knowledge of the multiple disciplines within the broadcast media industries.
- Produce graduates who have an informed understanding of the economic context of media production and who can apply appropriate entrepreneurial abilities when dealing with clients, audiences and markets.
- Produce graduates who have a critical understanding of the ever-changing nature of the broadcast media industries.
- Produce graduates who are able to work effectively both in teams and independently.
- Produce graduates who have a range of scholarly and practice-based research skills who can apply these to find solutions to real-world problems.
- Produce graduates who are confident in working in a multi-disciplinary environment.
- Produce graduates who understand the complex national and international contexts in which media is produced.
- Produce graduates with identified areas of professional strength whilst possessing a multiple skillset.
Entry Requirements
For Year 2 entry
- Higher Diploma+ in Mass Communications OR
- Relevant diploma level qualifications awarded by other Private Education Institutions (PEIs) with an entry requirement of 12 years of formal education
For Year 3 entry
- Relevant polytechnic diplomas with a pass grade OR
- Overseas polytechnic diplomas with an entry requirement of 10 years of formal education OR
- Higher National Diploma level qualifications in Mass Media related disciplines OR
- Relevant PEI qualification (equivalent to 1st and 2nd year EDP) with entry requirement of 12 years of formal education.
+ Formerly known as International Diploma in Mass Communications.
English Language Requirements
Applicants are required to possess one of the following:
- C6 in English at GCE 'O' Level OR
- IELTS 6.0 (with no element lower than 5.5) OR
- MDIS Professional Certificate in English (PCIE) OR
- Pass MDIS English Placement Test OR equivalent
Note: All applications are subject to the University’s approval.
Student Pass Application
International students are required to apply for a student pass if he/she wishes to study full-time in Singapore. Please visit https://www.mdis.edu.sg/student-pass-application for detailed information.
Career Opportunities
Our graduates go on to work in a variety of creative industries including film, TV, radio, audio production, creative arts organisations, marketing, social media campaigns and events.
Modules
Year 2
- Documentary Production
- Individual Production Portfolio
- Lights, Camera, Action: The Language of Film
- Making It in the Media 2
- Experimental Digital Production
- Fiction Production
Year 3
- Client-based Production Project
- Creative Content Development
- Independent Project (Broadcast Media Production)
- Making It in the Media 3
- Current Issues in Media Production
Profile of lecturers and their respective teaching modules:
- The average lecturer/student ratio is 1 : 100 (lecture)
- The average lecturer/student ratio is 1 : 40 (tutorial)
Assessment Method
Students will be assessed on a range of production based assignments and written assignments, which includes but are not limited to:-
- Presentation of ideas (pre-production)
- Group work on production documentary
- Artefact creation & design documentation
- Individual portfolio production
- Written evaluations of professional film/publications
- Analysis/critique of production work of others (both peers and professional work)
- Analysis/critique of individual work