Explore the power of language and media in shaping culture and society. Engage with cutting-edge theories and analysis of literature and digital media, develop critical thinking and communication skills that are highly valued by employers.

This degree presents a unique opportunity for you to examine the dynamic interplay between language and media in shaping contemporary culture and society. This interdisciplinary programme offers a comprehensive approach to the study of literature and digital media, providing you with a rigorous and analytical foundation that prepares you for careers across a broad range of fields.

The curriculum encompasses coursework that engages you in critical thinking, analysis, and communication, all of which are highly valued in the professional world. The degree's emphasis on cutting-edge theories and analysis of media affords a nuanced understanding of the intricate relationship between language and media in shaping society.

Our teaching staff, who are leaders in their fields, provide you with expert guidance and mentorship throughout your academic journey. They bring to the course a wealth of experience and knowledge, engaging students in a range of topics that span the cultural, historical, and social contexts of literature and media.

We provide you with opportunities to gain practical experience in the field. The course offers the opportunity for extended placements with organisations in the media and communications industries, enabling you to apply your theoretical knowledge to real-world situations. You are also offered valuable networking opportunities and insights into career paths in the media industry.

Study at a leading media university

NTU is 7th in the UK for the number of UG students in Media, journalism and communications (HESA 2023/24).

Make the world your classroom

You will have the opportunity to create your own pathway through the course, with a study abroad and extended placement modules available in the second year.

Real-world working experience

Gain practical experience through placements with media and communications organisations, employer-led projects and volunteering.

Explore literary excellence in Nottingham

Study in a UNESCO City of Literature. NTU is a lead partner of Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, and has established a variety of extracurricular opportunities and a host of partners in the creative industries.

Each year you’ll study a number of core modules from the lists below and you’ll have the opportunity to select from a range of optional modules to give yourself a more specialised pathway, depending on your interests.

Work-like experience

Work-like experience is much more than a placement. Throughout your degree you are given multiple opportunities to develop your career goals and build the skills, competencies and experience that employers demand, ensuring that your degree will provide a springboard for your future. This rich and diverse experience will ensure that you graduate with the confidence to thrive in your chosen career after graduation.

What does work-like experience mean?

Work-like experience provides a rich and diverse opportunity to engage in a wide range of activities which will build your skills and hone your confidence to prepare you for a professional career after graduation. These opportunities could include live employer briefs, vocational training, professional development, volunteering, and community projects with one of our partners as well as time spent on placement with an employer. These opportunities could be local, national or even international, depending upon your interests and aspirations. You will expand and enhance your creative and communications skills through practical projects, producing podcasts and videos, organising campaigns, curating social media content and visual media working alongside your peers, tutors and external partners.

Transformation modules

Each year you will take a core collaborative module. These modules are linked and will build on each other to ease you into University life, support you with mentoring and personal tutoring, begin your professional development, and expand your horizons with collaborative projects and assessments both within your subjects and wider afield.

Module information

A standard full-time BA (Hons) course is made up of 120 credits studied each year. Some courses may vary, however, and you can find information on the total number of credits achieved per module below.

Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll be studying throughout the

Year OneYear TwoOptional placement yearFinal year

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Literary Pasts, Presents and Futures

This module allows students to develop firm foundations in their knowledge of key authors and literary genres, from Middle English and the Early Modern period through to the present. The module places literatures from different eras in dialogue, inviting students to consider how texts 'speak' to one another across the ages. In doing so, it builds a critical understanding of literary heritage in which students are encouraged to reflect on fundamental issues in the study of English, such as the nature of literary 'tradition', and textual innovation. The module thereby reveals literary histories to be of enduring relevance to the contemporary moment and invites students to consider what the future might hold for studies in the subject.

20 credits

Ways of Reading

This module introduces you to the many different ways in which you might read and interpret texts. You will explore critical approaches to literature, and the different 'lenses' through which it might be read, considering questions related to authorship, publication and form, along with questions relating to writing and interpretation, around issues such as gender, race and the environment. This will encourage you to question what it means to read texts from particular perspectives, what assumptions we make as we read, the relationship between a text and the world, and even what it means to be human.

Analysing Media Texts

Be introduced to classic and contemporary methods of critical textual analysis. You'll explore a range of different media texts, from film to TV, advertising, video games, music, and news media, and will encounter some key concepts needed to make sense of them. You'll also examine how identities relating to race, class, sexuality, and gender are constructed across the field of popular culture.

Understanding Media Industries

Learn the essential theoretical and conceptual vocabulary needed to make sense of current trends in the media industries landscape, both nationally and internationally. You will explore questions relating to media ownership, organisation, power and control. Guest speakers will bring a new dimension to your learning by introducing real industry contexts, and by identifying the skills and competencies employers are looking for.

Transformations: Agency and Self

This first-year module introduces you to interdisciplinary study with a focus on how the humanities help us to understand what is means to be human from different disciplinary perspectives, providing you with opportunities to explore and make connections between your subjects. The module introduces the role and value of the humanities to contemporary society. It also encourages you to better understand, and reflect on, your own place within your course and on your academic, personal, and professional development as you transition to higher education. In doing so, the module develops your key academic skills, introduces NTU support, and helps to create a sense of community and belonging for students studying courses in Joint Honours Humanities. For this module you will be assessed through a creative project based on a live brief, and a piece of reflective writing.

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Global Narratives in English

English Literature is a global phenomenon. Authors write and publish in English across many continents and contexts, offering a rich array of cultural insights and voices. The emergence of literature written in English across the world bears a difficult history, however, and invites us to reflect carefully on the dynamics that have shaped its journey. This module turns to English literatures written from a range of global locations, including America, Africa, South Asia, Australasia, Ireland and diasporas of the Middle East, in order to explore the narratives that both connect and divide English literary authors worldwide. Examining tropes such as home-making, community, power, faith, identity and hybridity alongside political narratives of colonialism, slavery, migration, imperialism and globalisation, this module equips students with an appreciation of the diversity of English literature as a global phenomenon, and with an astute awareness of its political underpinnings, as well as its constantly evolving potentials.

Practicing Media Literacy

Explore the fundamentals of media practice through a combination of technical training, experimentation and analysis. You'll start to build your media production portfolio and learn how to use industry technology and software.

Optional pathways

Pathway 1: An international exchange

Travel the world, meet new friends, and have experiences you will remember for the rest of your life.

Our flexible curriculum has been designed to allow some amazing opportunities for you. Your second year of study is divided into two semesters, giving you the opportunity to take part in an international exchange. You could study with one of international exchange partners in Australia, Europe, USA, Canada, Thailand and many, many more.

Our dedicated team will support you in finding and arranging a suitable exchange. And don't worry about the cost, they will help you apply for any grants or loans you may need, as no one should miss out on the chance to broaden their horizons.

Pathway 2: Taught modules

The optional modules that we offer can be found below.

Rebel Literatures

Inspired by Nottingham's status as a UNESCO City of Literature renowned for its 'rebel writers', this second-year core module explores the many ways in which a spirit of rebellion has animated literary creativity over the past 150 years. From the fights for educational rights advanced by the New Woman authors of the late nineteenth century to the explosions of literary form performed by Modernist writers, and from the countercultural voices of writers speaking up from the margins in the 1980s and 90s to the voices of early twenty-first-century activist poets, you will explore how 'rebel writers' - including Nottingham's own - have reshaped literary and cultural history. The module includes the opportunity to visit some of the rich collections of radical literature held in archives across Nottingham.

Media, Theory and Society

Develop your knowledge of theoretical approaches to understanding the media and culture. This module will help you to understand some of the key theoretical approaches that are used in the study of media, communication and culture. You'll develop a familiarity of important theoretical approaches used in contemporary media and for the use of cultural analysis.

Transformations: Agency and World

This second-year module enables you to develop your understanding and practice of interdisciplinary study through a focus on the role and value of the humanities for understanding and engaging with sustainable futures and the future of work, beginning with addressing challenges we face in the present and actions we might take. Interrogating local, national, and global sustainability frameworks from a multi- and interdisciplinary perspective, the module provides an opportunity for you to bring together both of your subjects to address questions of sustainability and enterprise in a variety of sectors and contexts. The module enables you to reflect on your own place within these debates and their relation to your academic, personal, and professional development. As part of the module all students will complete an 80-hour work placement experience. You will be assessed through a professional portfolio and placement report.

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Intercultural Communication at Work

Gain the knowledge, skills and strategies to build your intercultural communication competence. Analyse and reflect on the impact of culture(s) on your values, assumptions, perceptions, expectations, and behaviours. Build successful verbal and non-verbal communication strategies in different intercultural settings.

Language, Inequality and Social Justice

Social justice is an important research topic that is inextricably linked to language use. Whether it's racial abuse on social media, prejudice against regional accents in schools, or sexist advertising campaigns, discrimination is a social issue that affects us all in one way or another. This module examines how language can be used to both promote social justice and tackle prejudice and discrimination in a range of institutional and everyday contexts. This module is especially appealing if you wish to pursue a career in advocacy, human resources or journalism.

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Shakespeare and Co.

Shakespeare was born in 1564 and so his life was coincident with the rise of the brand new, state of the art, professional theatre. On this module we'll explore these cutting-edge plays in a context of rapid social change and religious and political uncertainty. We'll introduce you to playwrights of the period, their dramatic techniques, reception, critical and theatrical history and we'll also consider modern spin-offs of their plays film versions and modern retellings. Topics covered will include colonialism, religious difference, sex and gender, nation and ethnicity, selfhood.

Working with Scripts

Develop your scriptwriting skills, whether for screen, podcast, stage, or radio. On this module, you will also learn about the working environment in which scripts are commissioned, written and produced, and develop important, exciting hands-on skills and experience.

Black Writing in Britain

You will become familiar with many black writers writing in or about Britain from the 1950s until the present day on this module. We will discuss the scope and function of the academic field named Black Writing in Britain, and consider the limitations and opportunities presented by the idea of a Black British literary canon or tradition, by examining the texts in the contexts of consciousness, resistance, and activism, publishing and the literary marketplace, black identity, diaspora and migration, and ideas of national identity. The module encourages debate over the impact of political, social, historical, and cultural contexts on literary texts, and the impact of literary texts on political, social, historical, and cultural contexts.

Romantic Revolutions

This module explores Romantic literature from 1780-1840. This was the era of the French revolution and Napoleonic wars, and also a period of great social change and development in Britain. You will study fiction, poetry and other forms of writing from this era, exploring work by well-known writers such as Wordsworth and Shelley, as well as women's writing, working-class writing and regional writing. The module will help you to develop your research skills and to engage in creative project ideas focusing on Romantic-era writing and thought. You will also explore how far revolutionary political and social change is reflected in the experimental themes and forms of Romantic writing, as well as considering the role of literature in encouraging social change, and its continued relevance today.

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Analysing Popular Music

Analysing Popular Music has two major concerns: firstly, to develop a social understanding of transatlantic popular music; and secondly, to develop a cultural-historical perspective on its development over the past hundred years and more. This module introduces you to theoretical approaches to the study of popular music, allowing you to engage in independent critical analysis of popular music and popular musical cultures.

Researching Media and Communications

This module introduces the key methods and analytical approaches of media and cultural studies. It enables you to design and produce original research projects, and to gain deeper understanding of the research methods you might use in your final year dissertation. It outlines a range of methods (including textual analysis, ethnography, and critical discourse analysis), and shows how these can be implemented to particular case studies from the media and other cultural practices.

Short Film Production and Exhibition

Enhance your production skills through the creation of a short film. You will use a range of equipment and practical craft techniques to your idea from creation, through professional planning, filming, and editing to promotion and festival entry. You will be supported in a variety of roles in your team with professional advice from practice-based academic tutors and our technical team.

You may choose to take an optional year-long placement in Year Three, either in the UK or overseas.

For your major project in your final year of your studies, you can choose to undertake a project in either one of your two Joint Honours subjects.

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English Major Project

For your English Major Project, you have the choice of undertaking either a Dissertation, or a Staff-Student Research Project. If you opt to undertake a Dissertation, you will be able to research a literary topic in depth guided by an academic with expertise in your chosen area of research. The Staff-Student Research Project Pathway will assign you to a member of staff's research project, providing you with research aims and questions. You will work with the staff member to produce original research on the topic, culminating in a written project detailing findings and analysis.

40 credits

Media Major Project

For your Media Major Project, you will have the opportunity to develop your own research skills and interests in significant depth. Acting as the culmination of your learning journey, your project will be creative and individualised, allowing you to produce a wide range of projects tailored to their specific media interests. You may choose to develop a practical project in the form of a podcast, photography portfolio, short film, piece of videography or creative writing. You may also choose to produce a long-form research essay. Recent focus topics have included projects on representations of masculinity in contemporary television series such as Ted Lasso, the relationship between advertising, femininity and consumption, the online "fandoms" of musician Harry Styles, and a photography project centred on women's experiences in exercise-related spaces.

Transformations: Agency and Social Change

This final-year module challenges you to consider the role and value of interdisciplinary research through your academic subjects in advocating for and achieving meaningful social change at different scales. Building on your first- and second-year studies, you will conceptualise, develop, and deliver your own interdisciplinary approach to a live brief focused on an aspect of social change, considering the role of issues such as ethics, justice, power, rights and inequalities, reflecting on the role that is played, or could be played, by humanities disciplines in addressing these global issues. The module also provides you with an opportunity to bring together and reflect on your personal, academic and professional development throughout your degree. For this module you will be assessed through a creative project based on a live brief, and a piece of reflective writing focused on planning for your future beyond undergraduate study.

Contemporary Literature, Culture and Theory

Focusing on fiction and poetry published in the twenty-first century, this module will help you to develop an advanced understanding of some of the topics that define our contemporary period. Both celebrated and less well-known writers are explored on the module, alongside wider cultural developments in recent years and key directions in contemporary criticism and theory. Reflecting on some of today's most pressing social and cultural issues, as well your ideas about the world and your place in it, you will study approaches to national, transnational, and global identities, environmental change, technology and digital culture, and war in the twenty-first century. You will have an opportunity to extend your experience of working with digital technologies, as well as your critical skills and your ability to speak confidently about key debates in literary studies.

Writing Justice, Changing Worlds

This module explores decolonial literature, poetry, and film, linking representation to anti-colonialism. You'll study marginalized traditions, postcolonial theory, and develop skills in critical reading and literary activism.

Gothic Rebels and Reactionaries

Gothic is known as the literature of the supernatural, the imaginary, and the darker aspects of being. However, it is also a literature that is deeply engaged with social and cultural issues, and frequently ahead of its time in terms of language, style and form. This module explores the gothic impulse in literature from the Romantic to the late Victorian era (1764-1897), considering how writers engage with cultural issues of the time, and the creative ways in which we, as readers, engage with their work in turn, through collaborative research including digital communities, and critical and creative responses in writing.

The American Gilded Age

Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner coined the term the ‘gilded age’ in 1873, and it’s a period that lasted from then until the 1890s, marked by economic expansion, a concentration of wealth, growing inequality, surging immigration, and political corruption. Some say the United States is living through a second Gilded Age today, so writing from the period is especially resonant. How did literary writers respond to these changes? We will study how writers like Edith Wharton, Henry James, Jack London, Charles Chesnutt, and Kate Chopin contended with Jim Crow legislation, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, socialism, feminism, and new concepts of sexuality.

Lifestyle and Consumer Culture

This Media module develops your knowledge of interdisciplinary approaches to consumption. We will investigate how lifestyles and consumer culture contribute to changing cultural identities and social hierarchies. We will interrogate key concepts such as 'taste', 'choice' and 'authenticity' in a world that encourages individuals to become their own self-brands. Key issues include the 'experience economy', commodity activism and cultures of neoliberal enterprise and austerity. Through assessment you will make sense of your own experiences in consumer society and produce a detailed piece of cultural analysis.

Client-led Media Production

During this module you'll be able to focus on the development of skills in media production by completing a media project that will be set to a 'real brief'. This is an opportunity for you to enhance your employability options by participating in live projects with a real purpose. This module will encourage you to make connections between theory and practice.

The Body and Popular Culture

Explore representations of the body across a diverse and contemporary range of cultural forms. By applying theoretical perspectives on different bodies in popular cultural to a wide selection of case studies, you will investigate the way that bodies are used and located within the media, addressing themes of gender, race, identity, celebrity bodies, ageing bodies, cyborgs, sexualised bodies, and more.

Persuasion, Promotion, Propaganda

This module explores how politics shapes our world, focusing on how political leaders and individuals communicate during war and peace. While primarily examining British and American politics, it also looks at political systems in other countries, helping you understand global political dynamics.

We regularly review our course content based on student and employer feedback to ensure they remain current and relevant. This may result in changes to module content or availability in future years. Optional modules will only run where there is sufficient demand. This will be determined on a case-by-case basis to protect the academic and student experience.

Student experience

Comfort Akinwole

English and Media student

“I think the course staff are supportive and encouraging. I like how they emphasise and encourage students to be original and creative in their approach to essays.”

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Celebrating Literature

City Of Literature - English

How you're taught

How will I learn?

Teaching takes a variety of forms and during your degree you will experience many different types of learning activities. A small number of optional modules which you could choose to study as part of your degree are delivered entirely online, allowing you the flexibility to study at a time that is convenient to you. Other modules use interactive lectures and workshops that are supplemented by smaller group sessions, including:

seminars

tutorials

problem-solving workshops

training workshops

hands-on practice

group projects and presentations

guest speakers

fieldwork.

You will also be able to take part in lots of extracurricular activities outside your course, including debating, research seminars, student challenges, sustainability and careers training, sports, student societies and much, much more.

Study abroad in Year Two

You’ll have the option to take part in an international exchange at a partner university in the second half of Year Two. This will enable you to gain impressive international experience, and broaden your perspective and career ambitions.

You’ll experience other cultures, travel the globe and open your eyes to a world of opportunities. Our exchange partnership with a number of international universities enables you to live and study in another country in your second year. Find out more about international exchange and study abroad.

Learn a new language

Alongside your study you also have the opportunity to learn another new language. The University Language Programme (ULP) is available to all students and gives you the option of learning a totally new language or improving the skills you already have. Learning a new language can enhance your communication skills, enrich your experience when travelling abroad and boost your career prospects. Find out more about the University Language Programme.

Supporting you

If you’re struggling with a topic or require additional support or guidance, you can arrange to see your tutors in small groups or one-to-one, to discuss essay plans or to seek some specific academic guidance.

It is the nature of the subjects offered in the School of Social Sciences, however, that much of your time will be spent engaged in independent study. We recognise that this marks a change of culture from school or college, and we have in place a system of study support to help you adapt to this.

How you're assessed

We use a varied and diverse range of coursework assessments to develop your skills and support your progress. These include digital projects, reviews, case-studies, essays, presentations and reports.

Our innovative approach to assessment means that in Year One you will develop and enhance a complementary set of key skills for success in second and third year, and throughout the degree the varied assessment pattern will enable you to engage with the past and prepare for your future through an exciting array of projects

Contact hours

For each 20-credit module, you’ll spend about 200 hours learning overall. Around 40 of those hours will be taught in lectures or seminars. The rest of the time is for independent study, reading, research, or working on assignments.

Who will teach you?

Jodie Heginbotham

Senior Lecturer

Jodie Heginbotham is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for NTU's BA (Hons) Media Communications.

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Nigel Edley

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Steven Jones

Principal Lecturer

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Jenni Ramone

Associate Professor

Dr Jenni Ramone is Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures and a director of the Postcolonial and Global Studies Research Group.

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Sarah Carter

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Nicole W. Thiara

Dr Nicole Thiara is Senior Lecturer in English literature. Her research interests are in the field of postcolonial studies and South Asian literature, in particular Dalit and Adivasi literature.

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Nicola Bowring

Nicola Bowring is a Lecturer in English Literature, with a focus on Gothic and Romantic Literature, and Travel Writing through the related themes of space and place.

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Phil Leonard

Professor

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James Walker

Specialises in innovative digital storytelling projects. His comic series Dawn of the Unread won a Teaching Excellence Award with the Guardian. He has written for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and has over 10 years' experience as a literature editor. His digital projects have a strong community focus and create placement opportunities for students.

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Annalise Grice

Hourly Paid Lecturer (Humanities)

Dr Grice is Senior Lecturer in English Literature in the department of English, Linguistics and Philosophy.

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Cüneyt Çakırlar

Dr Cüneyt Çakırlar is Associate Professor of Film and Visual Culture. He teaches on a variety of modules in film and media studies.

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Charlie Gregson

Charlie is a Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies and Course Lead for Nottingham Trent University's Museum and Heritage Development Masters course. Her consultancy and partnership work develops forward-thinking approaches to the strategic management of historic spaces, connecting stakeholders with stories, place and current issues to empower collaboration and social change.

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Duncan Grewcock

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Stephanie Palmer

Dr Stephanie Palmer researches and teaches American literature and women’s writing.

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Simon Cross

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Entry requirements

UK students

Standard offer: 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications

Contextual offer: 104 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications.

To find out what qualifications have tariff points, please use our tariff calculator.

Additional requirements

Additional requirements for UK students

There are no additional requirements for this course.

Contextual offers

We consider every application in the context of your individual circumstances and educational background. This may include information about where you live, the school or college you attended, or experiences that may have shaped your educational journey. This is known as a contextual offer, and we use information provided through UCAS to help inform our decisions. By considering achievement in context, we can better recognise academic potential and ensure applicants are assessed as fairly and fully as possible.

Meeting our entry requirements

Hundreds of qualifications in the UK have UCAS Tariff points attached to specific grades, including A-levels, BTECs, T Levels and many more. You can use your grades and points from up to four different qualifications to meet our criteria. Enter your predicted or achieved grades into our Tariff calculator to find out how many points your qualifications are worth.

Other qualifications and experience

NTU welcomes applications from students with non-standard qualifications and learning backgrounds, either for year one entry or for advanced standing beyond the start of a course into year 2 or beyond.

We consider study and/or credit achieved from a similar course at another institution (otherwise known as credit transfer), vocational and professional qualifications, and broader work or life experience.

Our Recognition of Prior Learning and Credit Transfer Policy outlines the process and options available for this route. If you wish to apply via Recognition of Prior Learning, please contact the central Admissions and Enquiries Team who will be able to support you through the process.

Getting in touch

If you need more help or information, get in touch through our enquiry form.

International students

Academic entry requirements: 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four A levels. We accept equivalent qualifications from all over the world. Please check your international entry requirements by country.

English language requirements: See our English language requirements page for requirements for your subject and information on alternative tests and Pre-sessional English.

Additional international requirements

Additional requirements for international students

If you need help achieving the academic entry requirements, we offer a Foundation preparation course for this degree. The course is offered through our partner Nottingham Trent International College (NTIC) based on our City campus.

English language requirements

View our English language requirements for all courses, including alternative English language tests and country qualifications accepted by the University.

If you need help achieving the language requirements, we offer a Pre-Sessional English for Academic Purposes course on our City campus which is an intensive preparation course for academic study at NTU.

If you have the right level of qualifications, you may be able to start your Bachelors degree at NTU in year 2 or year 3. This is called ‘advanced standing’ entry and is decided on a case-by case basis after our assessment of your qualifications and experience.

You can view our Recognition of Prior Learning and Credit Transfer Policy which outlines the process and options available, such as recognising experiential learning and credit transfer.

Sign up for emails

Sign up to receive regular emails from the International Office. You'll hear about our news, scholarships and any upcoming events in your country with our expert regional teams.

If you need advice about studying at NTU as an international student or how to apply, our international webpages are a great place to start. If you have any questions about your study options, your international qualifications, experience, grades or other results, please get in touch through our enquiry form. Our international teams are highly experienced in answering queries from students all over the world.

Policies

We strive to make our admissions procedures as fair and clear as possible. To find out more about how we make offers, visit our admissions policies page.

Fees and funding

UK students - see the fees for this course, as well as information about funding and support.

£10,050 per year

Find out about the extra support we may be able to provide to help pay for uni, including NTU bursaries and scholarships.

You will need to pay tuition fees for each year that you are at university. The tuition fees, including the placement year and study abroad options are subject to government policy and may change in future years of study.

Preparing for the financial side of student life is important, but we don’t want you to feel anxious or confused about it. Visit our fees and funding pages if you have any concerns.

International students - see the fees for this course, as well as payment advice and scholarships.

£18,400 per year

You will need to pay tuition fees for each year that you are at university. The tuition fees might increase from the second year of your undergraduate course, in line with inflation and as specified by the UK government.

Scholarships

We offer international scholarships of up to 50% of your tuition fee. You can apply for a scholarship when you have an offer to study at NTU.

Living costs

See our advice on managing your money and the cost of living as an international student in Nottingham.

Paying fees

As an international student, you'll need to make an advance payment as part of your offer conditions. You'll then need to pay your tuition fees in full, or have an agreement to pay in two further instalments, in order to enrol on the course.

Find out how and when to pay your fees, including information about your advance payment, instalment dates and how to make payments securely to the University.

Enquiries

If you have any queries relating to advance payments or arrangements to pay, please contact our friendly and experienced international enquiries team.

Additional costs

Your course fees cover the cost of studies and include loads of great benefits, such as the use of our library, support from our expert Employability team and free use of the IT equipment across our campuses. There are just a few additional things you may need to budget for:

Textbooks and library books

Your modules will point you to key textbooks and recommended reading. Many are available online, and in our libraries, but some students choose to buy their own copies. You’ll receive resource lists showing where to access eBooks, digital resources and physical copies. Our friendly Library team is always on hand to help you find what you need.

Printing and photocopying costs

The University allocates an annual printing and copying allowance of £20 depending on the course you are studying. For more details about costs for additional print and copying required over and above the annual allowance please see the printing and photocopying information on the Library website.

Field trips

All essential field trip costs will be included in your course fees. There may be the opportunity to take part in optional field trips, which do incur additional costs.

Placements

If you're undertaking a placement year, you'll need to budget for accommodation and any travel costs you may incur whilst on placement. Many of our placement students do earn a salary whilst on placement which can help to cover these living costs.

Fees and funding advice

For more advice and guidance, phone the Student Money Team on +44 (0)115 848 2494.

Cost of living information and support

Managing your money can help you make the most of life at NTU. Here's how we can support you, and now you can make your funding go further.

Cost of living in Nottingham

Our student benefits and free services

Money advice for international students

Careers and employability

Your career development

This is a major part of the curriculum, recognising the importance of university study as a route into graduate level careers. We don’t expect you to have a target career from the outset, but we will support you to develop your career aspirations, and provide multiple opportunities for you to work towards this, during your degree.

The structure of your degree, the assessments that you will undertake, and the opportunities we provide are designed to help you develop key transferable skills and competencies demanded by employers. We work very closely with a range of employers, and many employers helped shape our degrees. Our courses provide lots of opportunities for you to develop your own links with organisations and potential employers.

Joint honours humanities students develop a wide range of complementary skills. These include key skills of communication, project management, analysis, creativity, digital skills, collaboration and leadership, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and inclusivity. Through this course you’ll become more confident and self-motivated, be able to work independently and in teams, and develop excellent time management skills.

Recent graduates of this course have gone on to pursue careers in a wide range of careers including the creative arts, management, journalism, Third Sector, and beyond.

Many graduates also choose to undertake further study on one of our Masters-level courses or MPhil and PhD research degrees.

Employability Promise

Personalised support, one-on-one coaching and industry-specific advice – it’s all part of our Employability Promise. And it doesn’t end when you leave NTU – you’ll have access to all our careers services for three years after you graduate (conditions apply).

Our graduates are…

Graduates from this course now work in a wide range of roles such as:

Community Radio Broadcasters

Sub-Editors

Youth Programme Leaders

Lecturers in Media

Assessed work-like experience

We’ve embedded at least eight weeks of assessed work-like experience into all of our courses. This gives you the opportunity to apply your learning in real-world scenarios, build your confidence, and develop the experience employers are looking for.

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Campus and facilities

You’ll mainly be studying in the Djanogly building with access to facilities including a student kitchen and collaboration space.

NTU’s City Campus has everything you’ll need to stay busy between lectures. As well as the Boots Library and its beautiful roof garden, there’s our stylish Students’ Union building and two-storey, 100-station gym; a whole host of cafés, bars, restaurants and food outlets for every taste; our much-loved Global Lounge; performance and rehearsal spaces for musicians; and much, much more!

Take a few steps off campus and you’ll find yourself in the heart of Nottingham — England’s original ‘rebel city’. It’s one of the UK’s top 10 student destinations, and one of Europe’s top 25. Enjoy a booming indie arts scene, pop-up galleries, the nationally renowned Nottingham Contemporary, two A-list theatres, the iconic Broadway (voted one of the world’s top 100 independent cinemas by Total Film), and a constant rotation of events and exhibitions.

Here are some of the free services, student discount and benefits you'll get studying at NTU

We've carefully considered what benefits and services you need for your studies, so when you join NTU you'll get free printing and materials credits, access to our free WiFi, a copy of Microsoft Office, and can even borrow a laptop if yours is out of commission.

For life outside your lectures, you'll enjoy access to over 60 sports clubs and 130 student societies, discounted travel and bike hire, free language learning, award-winning student support and an entertainment programme which is second to none.

See all the benefits and free services you will enjoy as an NTU student.

Societies

Current students run societies in a range of Humanities and Arts subjects including History, Medieval, Film, Filmmaking, Philosophy, Politics and International Relations, and the Book society.

There are also a number of media channels which our students get involved in such as the NTU radio station FlyLive, our student magazine Platform, and TV station TrentTV.

Find out more about student societies at the Student Union website.

Media Study Hub and Kitchen in 360°

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Newton and Arkwright

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Boots Library

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Applying

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Keeping up-to-date

After you've applied, we’ll be sending you important emails throughout the application process so check your emails regularly, including your junk mail folder.

You can get more information and advice about applying to NTU on our Your Application page. Good luck with your application!

Apply through UCAS

You can apply for this course through UCAS. If you are not applying to any other UK universities, you can apply directly to us on our NTU applicant portal.

Please read our application guidance before you start your application.

We advise you to prepare and apply as early as you can as Student visa processing time can vary.

We'll send you important emails throughout the application process. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam mail folder.

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Personal statement guidance

You’ll submit a personal statement with your UCAS application – here are our tips on what to include and how to structure your personal statement.

Application support

If you have any questions about applying, get in touch through our online form or call us on 44 (0)115 848 4200.

Related courses

BA (Hons)

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