If making content and studying the media is your thing, this is the degree for you. We’ve designed this course to help you meet the challenge of building a creative career in the age of digital media.

You’ll learn creative and technical skills and use them in a variety of projects, from telling stories with video and audio to making short films.

We’ll also help you develop a deep understanding of the digital media landscape – not only will you be making media, but you’ll learn how and why it reaches a particular audience.

Why study Creative Media and Production at Huddersfield?

• You’ll use our industry-standard facilities to work across a range of digital media.
• Yorkshire is the growing hub of creative industries in the north of England, and Huddersfield is right at the heart of it.
• Our world-leading academics will help you analyse the media you love to watch, and learn more about participatory culture and fandoms.
• Expert teaching and work experience opportunities mean you learn from professionals working in the creative industries.

Placements

Our Creative Media and Production degree includes two exciting placement opportunities. Students are encouraged to undertake a full professional training year in Year 3. We support our students in finding suitable placement opportunities in the Creative Media Industries and beyond. During the placement years you are supported by an academic tutor and will build professional experience invaluable for your final year of study and graduate career alike.

All students not undertaking a full placement year study our final year compulsory placement module that gives you the chance to put your skills into practice in a short placement. This could be a few weeks with a newspaper, broadcaster or production company, or one day a week over several months in the busy media office of a company or public sector organisation.

Previous placement providers have included the BBC and independent TV companies, a variety of radio stations and newspapers and magazines, along with leading public relations companies and social media agencies.

Your Career

Media, creative and cultural sectors are one of the biggest and fastest growing in the UK. This degree will provide you with a combination of creative, technical and analytical skills for a variety of careers and roles in a rapidly developing digital economy.

*Percentage of graduates from this subject who are in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes 17/18, UK domiciled graduates).