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Media Content Creation with Foundation Year

  • BA (Hons)
  • 4 Years
  • Full-time
  • 09/2025
  • Undergraduate
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Course summary

Explore new technologies, ideas and creative ways to educate, advocate and motivate your audiences. Studying Media Content Creation will equip you with the understand and skills needed to succeed in the ever-evolving creative media industries.

KEY FEATURES OF THE COURSE

  • Working in the Media Content Creation industry is exciting, stimulating and varied

  • Develop your creative identity, thrive in the future media landscape and become a leader in the creative and cultural industries of tomorrow

  • Explore and experiment with digital practices within our digital labs as well as exploring and understand how the media industry’s function

  • Develop your skills through exposure to cutting edge commercial activities through live industry opportunities

  • Work on engagement projects with external partners such as Bloc Digital, Avit Media, Rams TV, Derby County F.C., Derby Theatre and QUAD

HOW YOU’LL LEARN

Make the cutting-edge recording facilities, TV studio and edit suites your second home. Explore and experiment with digital practices within our digital labs as well as exploring and understand how the media industry’s function. Hone your skills by being on Assignment with our external media partners on professional briefs and commercial projects and be able to create potential award-winning content for entry into the annual Royal Television Society Awards.

YOUR CAREER

Our focus is on professional practice and employability by developing not only your own unique creative practice, but also nurturing a ‘go get it’ attitude. We’ll help you develop your network of contacts that can help identify, support and grow your strengths to promote yourself in the media industries. You could develop and advance your career in areas such as:

  • Commercial Video

  • Documentary and Factual Production

  • Non-Linear Narratives

  • Podcasting and the Audio Industries

  • Editorial design

  • Branding

  • Visual Communication

  • New media technologies

  • Online design.

This course is subject to validation. You can still apply for this course while it is being approved.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

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Study options

  • BA (Hons) • Full-time • 4 Years

Start dates

  • 09/2025

Apply by
29 January

This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.

Application codes

Course code:
P3CF
Institution code:
D39
Campus name:
Main Site
Campus Code:
-
Points of Entry:
Foundation

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How to apply

Apply by
29 January

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
P3CF
Institution code:
D39
Campus name:
Main Site
Campus Code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Foundation

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Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

UCAS Tariff - 72 points

Contextual admissions

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We are committed to widening access to Higher Education and consider each applicant based on their whole profile and achievements prior to issuing an offer.

Where applicants do not meet the published criteria, we may apply some flexibility to enable them to study on their chosen course. Where this is not possible, we will offer an alternative course or a 4-year route if this is available. For further information please contact askadmissions@derby.ac.uk

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

LocationFeeYear
England£9535Year 1
Northern Ireland£9535Year 1
Scotland£9535Year 1
Wales£9535Year 1
Channel Islands£9535Year 1
Republic of Ireland£9535Year 1
EU£16900Year 1
International£16900Year 1

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