BA (Hons) Media Studies and Music

This course provides a fantastic creative opportunity to grow as a musician while combining your studies with media production. In addition to and in-depth study of music, you will also purse media-focussed topics, including television and radio journalism, print journalism, digital journalism, and media practice. You will be part of a vibrant music community, performing or attending performances in public venues. This course will enable you to develop your skills and knowledge, offering imaginative approaches and creative insight.
With magnificent facilities, world-class staff expertise, and one of the most vibrant performing environments of any UK university, Bangor is an exceptional location to study Media and Music.
This exciting degree will equip you with a broad range of production skills within different areas of the media, including documentary filmmaking, radio, screenwriting and short film production. It will also provide a theoretical grounding and historical understanding of how the media operate. Meanwhile, the Music modules will provide an excellent experience and understanding of the richness of music as a vibrant part of our everyday lives.
The music modules on offer to you are distinctive in that they offer a unique balance of subject breadth with opportunities to specialise, meaning that youre sure to find the ideal course to challenge and stimulate you. Media studies at Bangor is also unique, offering a close integration of academic and theoretical approaches with hands-on creative practice. Students in the School have the opportunity at all levels to combine a study of their chosen field with practice-based outcomes such as journalism, film and media/digital media production.
Media staff in the School are also practising professionals and consultants, and have a range of research interests including advertising, media regulation, privacy, digital journalism, political communication, online journalism, professional writing, comics, visual culture, gaming, virtual worlds, global media, social networks, and documentary.
Placement Year and Placement Year Available

Careers
Studying media subjects at Bangor can be your launchpad to a great career. We have excellent links with theatre companies, newspapers and the television industry.
Our graduates have gone on to work in a range of roles, including: creative writing, professional writing and publishing, performance and the theatre (both on and behind the stage), print and/or broadcast journalism, as actors, presenters and in television programme production, advertising and marketing, radio (as presenters as well as in programme production), digital, web and new media production, multi-media industries, teaching, lecturing, and public relations.

For all Music courses the ability to read staff notation is required. Points from grade examinations are taken into consideration where appropriate, but are not normally included in the offer.

Offers are tariff based, 96 - 128 tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.:

A Levels: including grade B Music (in lieu of Music A-level we will also consider other A-level subjects in conjunction with other level 3 qualifications in Music, or merit in the ABRSM/Trinity/LCM/Rockschool Grade 5 Theory/Grade 7 Practical, or IB Higher in Music.). General Studies and Key Skills not normally accepted.
BTEC National Extended Diploma in Music: MMM - DDM (including a unit demonstrating the ability to read staff notation - or see**)
Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma**: MMM- DDM
City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended Diploma (1080)**: considered on a case-by-case basis
International Baccalaureate Diploma: including grade H5 in Music**
Access**: pass required
Welsh Baccalaureate**: We will accept this qualification in conjunction with other level 3 qualifications
T Levels**: T Levels in a relevant subject considered on a case-by-case basis
Extended Project Qualification: Points can include a relevant Extended Project (EPQ) but must include a minimum 2 full A-levels, or equivalent.
We are happy to accept combinations of the qualifications listed above, as well as alternative Level 3 qualifications such as City & Guilds, Access and Cambridge Technical Diplomas.

We also welcome applications from mature learners.

International Candidates: International Candidates: school leaving qualifications that are equivalent to A levels/Level 3 and/or college diplomas are accepted from countries worldwide (subject to minimum English Language requirements).

IELTS - 6.0 (5.5), TOEFL iBT - 75 overall , (L-17, R-18, S-20, W-18)