Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Creative Media (with Professional Placement Year) Bath Spa University - Locksbrook Campus, UK

Focus on both the business and the art of multiplatform creative media production. Develop your content creation skills and prepare for success in the fast-growing content production sector. You’ll gain experience in project management, directing, cinematography, sound design, editing, user experience, app development, web design, animation, graphic design, marketing and photography.

Immerse yourself in the latest critical thinking and technologies to develop your identity as a professional content creator. Create meaningful media for different audiences across multiple platforms, making use of our purpose-built production and post-production facilities in Bath and Bristol.

Enrich your portfolio by working on real industry briefs. You’ll be given the opportunity to join Artswork Media’s production company at Paintworks in Bristol, where you’ll work on a rich variety of projects. Previous clients have included Bristol Old Vic, Glastonbury Festival and Boomtown Festival.

Throughout the course, you’ll work with a range of digital and interactive media tools and platforms in our purpose-built production facilities at the Newton Park Campus in Bath and at Artswork Media in Bristol.

You’ll nurture and extend your creative thinking and digital making skills, to learn techniques such as image manipulation, sound and video recording, non-linear audiovisual editing and interaction design.

You’ll bring together your skills, working on a variety of projects involving the production of video and sound, web-based media, mobile apps, experimental and site-specific interventions, or physical computing.

Professional Placement Year

This optional placement year provides you with the opportunity to identify, apply for, and secure professional experience, normally comprising one to three placements over a minimum of nine months. Successful completion of this module will demonstrate your ability to secure and sustain graduate-level employment.

By completing the module, you'll be entitled to the addition of 'with Professional Placement Year' to your degree title.