Creative Media (Professional Placement Year)

On our Creative Media degree, you'll experiment, gain technical skills, understand the media and collaborate with industry to kickstart your career.
- Taught by expert practitioners, industry professionals, media theorists, artists and filmmakers, with guest lectures by visiting speakers from across the creative industries.

- Work on live briefs, expand your skillset with new technologies, and personalise your experience by specialising in cutting-edge mediums.

- In your final year, join Artswork Media: a professional production company where you can collaborate directly with industry partners.

Creative Media at Bath Spa University is more than a typical media studies degree. Yes, you'll learn digital techniques, media knowledge and how to excel in the industry. It's also a practical, personalised experience, where much of what you work on is led by you.

Focus on what the industry wants and on your passions. Each of our modules emphasises creating practical projects using the mediums that interest you, and that express your views of the world around you.

Whether you want to be an exhibiting video artist, a marketing and social media guru, a freelancer with your own business or are simply passional about independent and proactive media-making, our experienced staff can guide you on the path to success.

We offer state-of-the-art equipment and will push you to engage with the most cutting-edge media practices. You'll gain experience in:

- digital and social media

- moving image content production

- post-production

- experimental media-making

- sound design

- podcasting

- animation

- graphic deign

- project management

- pitching

- user experience (UX) design

- audience research

- digital marketing.

On successful completion of the course, you'll be able to specialise in any of these areas.

We prioritise not only what you create but also why you create, with a focus on activism and personal expression as well as opportunities to research many aspects of the media ecosphere.

More about the Professional Placement Year
A Professional Placement Year (PPY), traditionally known as a sandwich year, is where you undertake a period of work with an external organisation for between 9-13 months. The placement occurs between your second and final years of undergraduate study. You can engage in multiple placements to make up the total time and are required to source the placement(s) yourself, with support from the Careers team.