Digital Media

UCAS code: W903

Here's what Queen Mary University of London says about its Digital Media course.

Explore how digital technologies shape cultures, communities, and creativity around the world.

This truly global degree offers an exciting opportunity to explore and participate in the digital transformation of cultures. The production and consumption of culture in the twenty-first century is refracted through digital technologies, and you will gain the skills and knowledge needed to appreciate how this is changing our understanding of the past, present and future. You will not only analyse cultural and digital content but also create and publish it yourself, alongside developing a nuanced understanding of various cultural forms from around our increasingly globalised world, including Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Taught through a mixture of lectures, seminars, workshops, coursework and independent study, this degree allows you to acquire knowledge and understanding of key issues in both digital media and global cultures. In addition, you will develop important academic skills (such as analysis, communication and media literacy) and personal attributes (teamworking and independent researching, for example), all of which are essential to your future career aspirations. By learning how to identify and apply creative approaches and ideas across cultural differences as well different media, you will be able to respond to employers' needs for skills in global awareness and intercultural competence. Thus, you will gain the interdisciplinary and communications expertise in digital and written forms needed to succeed in a range of career pathways, including in the fast-paced and growing fields of the creative and cultural industries.

Your progress is assessed in a variety of ways, including (but not limited to) presentations, essays, creative projects (including digital filmmaking), portfolios, reading diaries and a final year project, which can be either research or practice based – it’s your choice. You can also increasingly pursue your own interests and develop your individual talents through the modules that you select over the course of the degree, allowing you to focus more on practical skills, traditional academic learning, or a blend of the two.

Introduction to (Digital) Media (15 credits) Digital Practice: An Introduction (15 credits) Ghost in the Machine: Uncanny Media from the Typewriter to the Chatbot (15 credits) Understanding Global Cultures (15 credits) Knowledge and Power (30 credits)

• 30 credits of elective (optional) modules, for example: Language and AI Scriptwriting: Creativity and Technique Myths and Debates about Human Language Brief Encounters: Around the World in Short Stories Year 2 Digital Culture and Society (15 credits) Race and Digital Media (15 credits) Adventures in World Literature (15 credits) Digital Filmmaking/The Visual Essay (15 credits, alternating years)

• 60 credits of elective (optional) modules, for example: Literatures of the Postcolonial World History of the Internet To be Continued: Adaptations of Global Literary Classics Contemporary World Cinemas Coding for linguists Other Ways of Seeing Modern Art Language modules: French, Spanish, Russian, German, Mandarin, Arabic, Japanese, Portuguese or Catalan Year 3 Literary Culture in the Digital Age (15 credits) Digital Media and Global Cultures Research Project OR Digital Media and Global Cultures Practice Project (30 credits)

+75 credits of elective (optional) modules, for example: Videogames: History, Culture and Representation from Pacman to Pokemon Creative Producing Culture from Below: The Politics of the Popular The Digital Critic: Reading with Computers Poetry and Media Multimodality, Media and Language Look Who’s Computing Now School of the Arts Review (STAR): Edit, Write, Publish Language modules: French, Spanish, Russian, German, Mandarin, Arabic, Japanese, Portuguese or Catalan

Assessment typically includes a combination of exams and coursework, or coursework only. The final year may include completion of a research project.