Study Film and Media and graduate with a university degree

We are pioneers in film and media education and research, nationally and internationally active in the field since 1978. The department is one of the largest in the UK and has consistently been rated top in Scotland in Research Assessment Exercises since they began (including the most recent exercise).

Teaching is highly rated and focuses on the critical and theoretical study of film, broadcasting, journalism and the press, the internet and new media, sport, advertising and public relations. Audio and video production work, in small groups, is a popular strand of the undergraduate course, along with scriptwriting.

Year 1

Highers BBBB.
A-levels BBC.
IB Diploma with a total of 32 points.
HNC or HND with Bs in graded units.

Access courses and other UK/EU and international qualifications are also welcomed.

You are encouraged to gain pre-application experience with your local media.

Year 2

HND in Communication with Bs in graded units considered on an individual basis.

General entrance requirements apply.

Other information

If examinations are taken over two sittings, or there are repeats or upgrades, the entrance requirements may be higher.

Required Subjects

English Standard Grade (2), Intermediate 2 (C), GCSE (C) or equivalent.

Applicants with English Standard Grade (3) will also be considered, although alternative entry conditions may be made in this case.

information on possible sources of funding

Full-time (three modules per semester).
Part-time (one or two modules per semester).
February entry is also available.

You will take Film and Media plus two other subjects in Year 1.

Semesters 1 - 4

You will take five core modules in Film and Media:

• Media I: Creative Industries
• Media II: Representation, Meaning and Identity
• The Moving Image
• Digital Media and Culture
• Reading Film and Television
  

Semesters 5 - 8

You will take advanced semester modules selected from the following:

• Reading Film and Television
• Digital Media and Culture
• Advertising
• Public Relations
• Scriptwriting
• Cultural Theory and Media Practice
• Experimental Cinema
• Terrorism in the Media
• Sport, the Media and Popular Culture
• Film and Television in Scotland
• Gender and Representation
• Television Drama
• British Cinema from the 1930s to the Present
  
• New Hollywood Cinema
• Introduction to Audio and Video Production
• Radio Feature Production
• Radio Drama Production
  
• Television Feature Production
• Documentary Production
• Video Drama Production
• Researching Media and Culture
• Dissertation

You are admitted to the production strand in Semester 5 on the basis of merit.

A new pathway in Communications Practice may be taken in combination with Film and Media.  Students taking this pathway will be required to take, as part of their course, modules that offer an introduction to the communications industries and to complete their final-year dissertation on some aspect of communications practice.

Lectures, seminars, workshops, group projects and presentations all feature in learning and teaching provision, and industry practitioners frequently deliver elements of the course. Assessment is by means of examinations, essays, individual and group practical assignments, creative projects (some of which involve group practical assignments) and dissertations.

(For a Combined Honours degree the higher entrance requirements of the subjects usually apply.)

European Film and Media; Global Cinema and Culture; Journalism Studies;

Media Studies is joint first in the UK in the National Student Survey 2011.

You have the opportunity to study abroad through Stirling's well-established connections with several North American and European universities.

Film, Media and Journalism has been ranked 1st in Scotland in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). Teaching is also highly rated, and Stirling is rated in the UK top ten for student satisfaction in Media subjects and in Journalism.

1st in Scotland for Media Studies & Communications (Guardian University Guide, 2011)

1st in Scotland for Communications & Media (Complete University Guide, 2011)
 

Many Film and Media students have established successful careers in the media. These include broadcast and print journalism; television, radio and film production; media management; advertising and public relations; and education. For specific graduate news, visit:

www.fmj.stir.ac.uk/social-media/intelligencer.php.