Media And Music

Highlights

Fully equipped media facilities with editing suites, production studios, media and industry-standard digital media equipment. Extensive loans service for digital recorders, video cameras, stills cameras and more. Access professionally equipped public screening spaces at Pontio, our Arts and Innovation Centre.

Perform and attend events in our magnificent Prichard Jones Hall and Powis Hall. Benefit from state-of-the-art music facilities on campus including practice facilities, studios, rehearsal rooms, and incredible spaces for theatrical and music performances. Our staff include world-leading experts in composition, musicology and music performance as well as practitioners with experience in factual documentary, fiction production and journalism.

Study within a vibrant performing environment and focus on developing your understanding of media, production and performance. Discover imaginative approaches and gain creative insight to develop your artistic skills.

Course overview

This Media and Music degree combines theory and practise, and examines the impact and influence of media and music on individuals and society. You will learn how they can be used separately or together to communicate different meaning, feeling and emotions. As a joint honours degree student, you will take half of your modules each year in both subjects.

Media studies gives you the chance to critically examine the technologies and techniques used to engage, inform and entertain audiences via television, film, social media, advertising, AI, radio and podcasting. Staff expertise includes advertising, media regulation, privacy, political communication, professional writing, comics, visual culture, gender and race, virtual worlds, global media, social networks and documentary. At Bangor University, making music and understanding music go hand in hand.

You will be taught by world-renowned musicologists, composers and performers, who will encourage you to explore the connections between all three fundamental aspects of musical study. In music, key strengths lie in 20th and 21st century music (including popular music), music editing, Welsh music, sonic art, composition, contemporary and interactive performance. Our extensive music facilities include two professional standard concert halls, rehearsal spaces, practice rooms, and four 24/7 electroacoustic composition and recording studios.

We have a range of instruments and equipment, including a full-size organ, chamber organ, several harpsichords, harps, and four Steinway grand pianos. We enjoy close links with leading organisations such as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Venue Cymru and Ensemble Cymru, BBC Wales, S4C, BAFTA Cymru and independent television company Cwmni Da. This presents opportunities to gain practical experience and forge links with potential future employers across the media, creative and cultural industries.

In the past, our students have had opportunities to attend industry talks and workshops with directors, broadcasters and TV commissioners. Studying within the School enables you to collaborate on different projects, such as short films, recitals and other musical productions, with students who are composers, musicians, actors, linguists and writers. There are plenty of opportunities to help organise, record, report, attend and perform in a multitude of activities within the University and other public venues such as Galeri Caernarfon and Venue Cymru.

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Placement year

What is the Placement Year? This exciting opportunity allows you to spend a year working with a self-sourced, professional organisation relevant to your studies. You'll typically start between June and September of your second year and finish by the following June or September.

Placements can be UK-based or even overseas. Why choose a Placement Year? Gain practical experience that complements your academic learning Make valuable industry contacts that could open doors…