Bachelor of Arts - Film Studies and Media (Honours)

BA (Hons) Film Studies and Media combines cinema study with the broader analysis of media industries and audiences: screen theory and film history alongside media institutions, digital platforms, audience research and the political economy of contemporary communication.

The joint degree suits students interested in how screen content is produced, circulated and consumed at industry scale — streaming algorithms, distribution windows, audience segmentation — and its research training supports the strategy and insight roles that platforms and broadcasters now recruit for heavily.

Applicants should note this is the analytical rather than practical member of DMU’s screen family, and choose deliberately between it and the production-badged courses listed elsewhere in this sheet, which teach camera, sound and editing instead. Students here write, research and strategise about media, and those skills feed the platform, insight and programming roles that streaming services now recruit heavily for. Five entry windows across September and January cycles are recorded, at the £16,800 arts-faculty fee, giving applicants who decide after results season a same-year route into the course rather than a full year of waiting, at a fee well below comparable London media degrees.

Assessment spans analytical essays, industry case studies, audience research projects and digital content work, and the final-year dissertation typically investigates a live question in screen culture, giving graduates a substantial research artefact for applications.

Careers cluster in media research, content strategy, marketing and programming at £20,000–£24,000, with recorded January windows across all cycles easing admission timing. As a completed honours award the degree qualifies for the Graduate Route’s 18-month allowance under post-2026 rules, with dependants excluded on taught routes.