Course Modules

This module explores various relationships between sport and television. You will use a range of critical approaches within television studies to examine sports broadcasting, television culture and the global media sport network. You will be assessed through two case studies.

This module considers developments in sports journalism. You will examine the significance of sport for newspapers, address news values, explore news production and consumption, and reflect on sports reporting in new mediascapes. This module tackles the way sports narratives are

This module helps you develop a range of professional, technical and procedural skills in video journalism.

This module will examine the nature of contemporary media, how it operates and how it differs from traditional journalism. You will explore online information dissemination, the technologies involved, and how they may be manipulated. You will explore the interview process

This module examines the significance of the internet and new media technologies in sports media. Key issues concerning: production; consumption; identity; political economy; co-optation; participatory culture; user-generated content; convergence; commerce; social media; and gaming. will be examined in relation to

This module explores the use of multi-camera recording techniques and the management of various events. It aims to provide you with a range of technical experiences and knowledge of events practice, while developing transferable skills in creating material to a

In this module, you will examine films and documentaries that focus on sport, an athlete or a particular sports event. You will locate films in relevant contexts and tackle a range of approaches in film studies, cultural studies and narrative

This module covers a range of aspects of sports broadcasting. You will develop appropriate industry skills in sports media production processes such as directing, camerawork, lighting, sound recording and production management. You will develop post-production skills in editing, graphics, visual

This module builds on knowledge gained in Sports Media Production One to develop your skill sets in sports media production and sportscasting.

The course will examine contemporary theories relating to the adoption and maintenance of a healthy lifestyle. It will also examine the relationship between activity involvement and individual affective responses, cognitions of self and health-related behaviour. Specifically, theories of behaviour change