Newman University College, BA (Hons), Education Studies and Media and Communication

Education studies Modules cover themes including: self, schooling and society; learning processes; the politics of education; educational research; education and the new technologies; schools and learning organisations; education equality and identity; contemporary developments in learning theory. Year 1: Modules may include: Introduction to education studies; classrooms and learning environments; teachers, teaching and pedagogy; interpersonal approaches in education; individual development in an educational context. Year 2: modules may include: the politics of education; learning processes; education, imagination and creativity; knowledge and ideology of education; education, equality and identity; research in education; individual differences. Year 3: modules may include: educational systems and social change; educational and the new technologies; education: contested values and praxis; learning theory: historical and contemporary perspectives; safeguarding children; critical theory and education; research dissertation. Media and communication The range of modules focus on ways in which media culture is changing, and what the future holds; on the course the student: reflects on their own consumption of media and makes their own media; learns to make digital video, video games, animation and on-line media; applies critical media theories to a range of popular texts; researches the dynamic and changing nature of digital media; specialises in either media education or digital arts; inks media theories to their other subject; researches how media audiences behave; develops their own media literacy through creative digital production. Year 1: In the 1st year the student develops their media literacy through analysis, research and digital production; the course equips the student with the skills needed to critically analyse and create media texts. Year 2: in the 2nd year, the relationship between media and politics, the effects of the media in society (eg videogames) and the role of media in citizenship are explored, and the course considers the various predictions for the future; there is an opportunity for the student to take a work placement in a media related setting. Year 3: in the final year, the student specialises more, and takes a more advanced route in either digital arts production or media education