Communication, Media and Culture and Politics (joint honours)

Our joint honours course allows you to pursue your own areas of interest within Communication, Media and Culture and Politics whilst also providing you with a range of personal and professional skills which will serve as a springboard for your future career development. The programme is carefully designed to enable you to gradually develop your knowledge and skills and to become autonomous, effective and independent learners.

Communication, Media and Culture is about understanding interpersonal connections between individuals, groups and corporations who construct their identities by means of new media and social interaction, persuasion and propaganda, journalism and branding. Politics modules will help you to develop your understanding and knowledge of power in social relations and how this manifests itself in our institutions, ideas and in the distribution of limited resources in society.

We are Top 10 in the UK: Communication, Media and Culture and Politics is ranked 8th in the Guardian Media and Film Studies subject league ranking 2025.