Communication Degrees Online

This course enables creative individuals to flourish in the media and cultural industries that deal with the promotion and communication of fashion. This includes product launches, store events, museum valorisation, catwalk shows, TV magazine programmes and exhibitions and relates to visual imagery, text, information and experiential design.

Our Fashion Communication course recognises and emphasises the value of design through the conception, production, promotion and dissemination of material and experiential outcomes. This is taught through lecture and project based research and the design of creative fashion presentations, covering areas such as product launches, retail events, curation, design, fashion shows and journalism. Written assignments and reports, computer software skills and critiques are an integral part of the learning process. Students’ creative development is supported with the appropriate practical and intellectual skills and emphasis is placed on the development of the visual, practical, written and verbal skills necessary to enable graduates to take advantage of a diverse curriculum.

The programme is interdisciplinary in its nature and includes experiential design projects, the acquisition of traditional visualisation techniques, the knowledge of production techniques and operative training in professional hardware and software. A critical knowledge of cultural factors is delivered through a series of lectures and seminars examining the philosophical, psychological, sociological and economic factors which impact on the professional environment in which graduates will practice.

The course philosophy is to create a learning environment in which innovation and originality are encouraged and supported, where talented and self-motivated students become visually literate, excellent communicators and have the creativity to design experiences that promote and reflect the brands, people, products and companies to whom they belong. They achieve this by addressing the visual, practical, intellectual and cultural demands of an ever changing society and fashion audience.

Do you enjoy working with the public? Are you an excellent communicator? Do you like organising events? Do you ever read a leaflet and think that you could write it so much better? Do you dream of succeeding in the business world? Do you want to enhance your IT Skills?

If so, then this is the course for you……

This brand new, innovative and exciting programme allows you to gain all of the professional skills to succeed in the fields of PR, marketing and event planning. There is a need for graduates with excellent IT and communication skills, and this course will teach you all you need to know about how to present yourself to the media and other areas of professional life. You will be educated in the practical and vocational skills necessary to prepare you for your entrance into the business world. What is unique about this programme at Northumbria, is that guest lecturers will address key issues in the corporate world of Communication and Public Relations, thereby providing a real world perspective.

This programme also offers the opportunity for a one year paid professional placement, which will give you the chance to gain professional contacts and enhance your CV. The nature of the course means that you can focus your studies in whatever direction that you like, depending on what you enjoy the most and/or the career path you decide to take.

First Year Student Comments:
“It is a very modern course which will look good to employers, as being a good communicator will stead you in a good position for any job.”

“I enjoyed the variety of teaching styles and practical assessment.”

“We got the chance to film for ‘Trevor McDonald’ and got to go to New York for a study trip.”

Recent years have seen a rapid growth in the communications industry with the development of optical fibre communications systems, mobile telephone networks and high-speed data highways. The aims of the course are to familiarise you with the engineering fundamentals that underlie all modern communications systems, and to enable you to specialise in your chosen industry sector. This course is less mathematical than a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) degree.
Course structure

Three levels, each of 120 credits. If you take a Joint you study each subject for 60 credits at each level. See page 40.
Level 1 modules include
Electrical Principles 1
Introduction to Communications
Introduction to Electronics
Mathematical Techniques 1
Electronic Systems
Measurement and Analysis 1
Level 2 modules include
Communications Systems
Decision Making for Technology Based Organisations
Multimedia Devices
Analogue and Digital Electronics
Level 3 modules include
Engineering Project
Mobile Radio Communications

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Placement

You can take an optional sandwich placement that provides you with essential workplace skills.
Career opportunities

There are excellent career opportunities for graduates, including working with communications and network service providers, and careers in equipment design and manufacture. Some graduates also go on to further study. Graduates have found work as engineers for companies such as Sky.

This course examines the way professionals create film images and how new technologies affect those images and stories. Students are introduced to practical and theoretical issues around cinema, media convergence, new media, media industries and their management methods. Editing and design skills, animation production and digital video production are all core to the course. Options include sound design for moving image, cinematography and scriptwriting. This course provides students with skills to analyse, design and produce media for audiences and the industries that make this possible. Creative and professional practice is firmly linked to critical reflection.
Course structure

Three levels, each of 120 credits.
Level 1 modules include
Cinematics
Post Production Crafts
Art, Media and Design in Context
Thinking Art, Media & Design
Introduction to Digital Communications
Level 2 modules include
Professional Practice in Creative Industries
Media Industry Practices
3D/2D Motion Graphics
Motion
New Media Genres and Applications
Level 3 modules include
Final Project
Moving Image Production
Advanced New Media
Digital Moving Image
British Cinema

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Career opportunities

Successful completion of the course will offer opportunities in film and media, new media, games design, multimedia, marketing and promotion, digital entertainment industries and new media design.

The growth of mass communications is inextricably linked with the development of the modern world. Developments in media technology have had a major impact, and an understanding of these powerful forces is vital to our understanding of the political and cultural world today. This course examines the political, technological and economic dynamics of the contemporary multicultural international communications sector.
Course structure