Digital Media and Culture BA (Hons)

at University of Sussex

Year 1 at Sussex

Core modules
Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

Autumn teaching

• Digital Environment
• Digital Media and Culture: Theories, Investigations, Practices
• Questioning the Media B

Spring teaching

• Communication Design
• Creative Audiovisual Coding B
• Digital Histories, Objects and Processes

Year 2 at Sussex

Core modules
Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

Autumn teaching

• Creative Systems and Computational Art
• Questioning the Digital B

Spring teaching

• Playable Media

Study abroad or Placement

• Study abroad (optional)
  Apply to study abroad – you’ll develop an international perspective and gain an edge when it comes to your career.
• Placement (optional)
  To help you gain experience and increase your employability, you can apply for an optional placement as part of your course. You’ll be responsible for applying for and securing your placement. Our dedicated careers team can provide you with information and advice. If you’re successful in obtaining a placement, this will form part of your course.

Year 3 at Sussex

Core modules
Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

Autumn teaching

• Digital Media Project Preparation

A-level

Typical offer    
ABB-BBB

Contextual offer    

• BBC-BCC
• Not everyone has the same support to get to higher education – we help you reach your potential. When we receive applications through UCAS, we consider all factors and will sometimes make contextual offers as part of our Access and Participation Plan

GCSEs    

• You must have GCSE (or equivalent) in English at grade 5 (or grade B).
• You should also have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.

Extended Project Qualification    
We take the EPQ into account when considering your application and it can be useful in the summer when your results are released if you have narrowly missed the conditions of your offer.  We do not routinely include the EPQ in the conditions of your offer but we sometimes offer alternative conditions that include the EPQ. 

International Baccalaureate

Typical offer    
30 -32 points overall from the full IB Diploma.

European Baccalaureate

Typical offer    
Overall result of at least 75% to 77%.

• Home students: £9,250 per year
• Channel Islands and Isle of Man students: £9,250 per year
• International students: £22,500 per year

Note that your fees may be subject to an increase on an annual basis as the Government reviews the fee levels.

Graduates of this degree can enter a wide range of employment in digital content creation, management, analysis and curation. 

Potential roles you will be prepared for include:

• social media analyst/strategist
• digital content manager
• digital curator
• digital asset manager
• web content developer
• user-experience analyst
• digital media manager
• digital account manager.