Modules

Year 1: You will build basic knowledge in traditional methods of broadcasting. Alongside this, you will learn about the television industry and develop an awareness of multi-platform delivery and how to develop viable TV format ideas. You will cover studio and location production techniques in a range of genres including drama and factual programming. Year 2: You will apply the production skills and techniques gained in the first year and experiment creatively on increasingly challenging projects. You will develop audience-led approaches to documentary, entertainment, live and interactive programmes. At the same time, you will continue to develop your own ideas and entrepreneurial skills. The elective units include options to work on the Royal Shakespeare Company Live Broadcasts or taking on a management or production role in our new student-led TV channel RaveTV. You can also select a specialist post-production unit or a choice of other electives within the Media School. Year 3: In the final level, academic and industry research forms the core of your studies with the dissertation unit. The professional initiatives unit involves individual research into new trends and emerging technologies such as Augmented Reality and 360degree video. In creative futures you will work in a group to realise a project using one of the technologies researched in the first term. Finally, the portfolio unit allows you to build a portfolio of self-initiated work and experiment with ideas and new media solutions that prepare you for professional practice.

Assessment method

Digital Television uses a variety of assessment methods. Formative assessment is given at the midpoint of a unit to give formal guidance before final Summative assessment at the end of the unit. Tutorials give more detailed feedback and advice throughout each unit. Ideas-based projects emulate industry practice and have some component of pitch, proposal or presentation in most units. Formal feedback is supplemented at presentations by critiques from staff and/or industry guests. On some units, industry guests can also become “clients” by setting part of a brief–but all the work you produce is assessed against assessment criteria in the briefs and unit specifications. Final summative presentations can be a combination of group assessment, part-individual or just be individual. Your work is submitted online via Moodle and feedback is usually given in a written form, sometimes in combination with audio/video feedback. Peer-group assessment may be used in some group projects. In all production units, you will be asked to produce a critical self-assessment of your learning which forms part of your final mark.

Qualified teacher status (QTS)

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS