Media Portfolio, Postgraduate Taught - GradDip - 2022/23 entry

Your course begins with a diagnostic tutorial during which we will assess the support you need to develop your creative portfolio, knowledge and skills. This will result in a personalised plan to help you achieve your goals. The Academic Skills modules will allow you to improve those all-important skills needed for successful masters level study, such as understanding and communicating theories and arguments relevant to your practice. Through the Academic Skills modules, we aim to provide specialist support for students with English as a second language.

On successful completion of the course, you are guaranteed access to one of the following MA courses in the School of Media:

• MA Public Relations
• MA Media Production
• MA Data Journalism
• MA Events, Festivals and Exhibition Management

You may also be eligible to join one of the other MAs in the wider Faculty of Arts Design and Media, depending on the suitability of your portfolio and abilities.

While the main purpose of this course is to prepare you for Masters level study, the following transferable skills are embedded throughout the curriculum to help you become more employable:

• Time management
• Project management
• Effective communication through a variety of methods, including presentations
• Group working
• Problem solving
• Digital literacy

We recognise that students will have different prior experiences and competences and may not need to complete the full course in order to achieve the standards required for entry to Masters. Depending on your prior experience, the Universitys Recognition of Prior Learning scheme may enable you to make a case to undertake just those aspects of the course which meet your development needs.

As part of the application process, we require a digital portfolio demonstrating critical thinking, technical abilities and creative process relevant to the subject area.

Bachelor Degree from a recognised university with a minimum grade of 60% / Good / 2.5 / C+

Even though you may have met the stated requirements, if your first language is not English, we may ask you to take an additional English Language Test when you arrive.

Based on the results of the test, you may be required to attend regular English classes to improve your level of competence. English classes are provided free of charge and are available to all non-UK students who wish to attain greater fluency in English.

You will learn of range of skills which will be key to enhancing your future employability and future studies at postgraduate level.

Specifically you will learn to:

• Develop your own practice and how to analyse this in relation to future employment options.
• Identify the relationship of theory to practice and how this can be used to develop your own individual identity.
• Negotiate, plan, exhibit and present to a professional standard.
• Work independently and collaboratively.
• Be a self-motivated, organised, effective learner.

You will also learn skills in a range of workshop practices and lectures in relation to your own individual development in your chosen subject.