Bachelor of Arts - English Language and Media (Honours)

This joint route studies how language operates in media contexts: linguistic analysis of discourse, persuasion and representation combined with media theory, digital platforms, audience study and practical content production.

It is the most analytically sharp of DMU’s media pairings because it treats media messages as language objects to be dissected — framing, register, implicature — giving graduates a vocabulary for why communication works that pure media graduates often lack.

Recorded at £13,750, the course carries the English Language family’s lower fee while sharing media modules with courses priced considerably higher elsewhere in this sheet, a source anomaly preserved verbatim. The source records both September and January starts, giving five admission points across the cycles listed.

The distinctive value of this pairing is analytical rather than technical, and applicants should understand that clearly before enrolling: it studies how media language persuades, frames and excludes, rather than teaching camera or editing craft, which the production-badged courses elsewhere in this sheet cover instead. Students who want that analytical edge should convert it into visible work — content audits, campaign critiques, well-argued strategy pieces published on a personal platform — because communications employers hire on demonstrated judgement. At £13,750 the course also represents the cheapest route in the sheet into the media and communications job market, a point worth surfacing to price-sensitive families.

Graduates enter content, communications and digital editorial roles at £20,000–£24,000 across effectively every sector. The honours award qualifies for the Graduate Route at the 18-month post-January-2027 length, and taught-route students cannot bring dependants for the duration of study.