Bachelor of Arts - Media and Communication

University of Canterbury

With over 30 subjects to choose from you can customise your BA degree to suit your interests and career path. Over the three years of your BA degree you will gain the critical thinking, creative problem-solving, and communication skills that employers want. Practical experiences such as internships are on offer too. Bachelor of Arts specialisation option You can also do a BA with a specialisation pathway. Specialisations include a set programme of courses centred on a broad theme. These allow you to develop expertise in more subjects than a major, as well as the opportunity to customise your study to your particular interests. See the Bachelor of Arts - Specialisations. Study Involve: Choose from over 30 Arts subjects as your major and minor, or double major. Many courses offer field trips, real-world case studies, performances, internships, and community projects. You have the option to study a minor from additional subjects across Arts, Commerce, Digital Screen, Health, Product Design, Science, Sport, and Youth and Community Leadership. Get involved with some of the many Arts related student clubs including Arts Society, Japan Society, Classoc, and Musoc.Communication shapes the world we live in – whether by media professionals, large organisations, or individuals. By studying Media and Communication, you will learn how to analyse and produce communications and media, and how other people understand it within their own social worlds. Study Involve: Explore how media builds community, reinforces norms or drives social change, and how consumption of media affects culture, politics, and behaviour. Individual and group projects on multiple platforms – digital, television, podcasts, and more. Create relationships with professional media guest speakers from industry and benefit from presentations and seminars from guest lecturers from around the world.

Faculty of Arts