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Digital Media
2 study options
Digital Media BA (Hons)
Key information
- Degree
- BA (Hons)
- Duration
- 3 years
- Start
- September 2026
- UCAS code
- W903
- Institution code
- Q50
- Typical A-Level offer
- Grades BBB at A-Level.
Full entry requirements (including contextual admissions) - Home fees
- £9,535
- Overseas fees
- £26,950
Funding information
Paying your fees
Digital Media with a Year Abroad BA (Hons)
Key information
- Degree
- BA (Hons)
- Duration
- 4 years
- Start
- September 2026
- UCAS code
- W904
- Institution code
- Q50
- Typical A-Level offer
- Grades BBB at A-Level.
Full entry requirements (including contextual admissions) - Home fees
- £9,535
- Overseas fees
- £26,950
Funding information
Paying your fees
Overview
Explore how digital technologies shape cultures, communities, and creativity around the world.
This truly global degree offers an exciting opportunity to explore and participate in the digital transformation of cultures. The production and consumption of culture in the twenty-first century is refracted through digital technologies, and you will gain the skills and knowledge needed to appreciate how this is changing our understanding of the past, present and future. You will not only analyse cultural and digital content but also create and publish it yourself, alongside developing a nuanced understanding of various cultural forms from around our increasingly globalised world, including Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Taught through a mixture of lectures, seminars, workshops, coursework and independent study, this degree allows you to acquire knowledge and understanding of key issues in both digital media and global cultures. In addition, you will develop important academic skills (such as analysis, communication and media literacy) and personal attributes (teamworking and independent researching, for example), all of which are essential to your future career aspirations. By learning how to identify and apply creative approaches and ideas across cultural differences as well different media, you will be able to respond to employers' needs for skills in global awareness and intercultural competence. Thus, you will gain the interdisciplinary and communications expertise in digital and written forms needed to succeed in a range of career pathways, including in the fast-paced and growing fields of the creative and cultural industries.
Your progress is assessed in a variety of ways, including (but not limited to) presentations, essays, creative projects (including digital filmmaking), portfolios, reading diaries and a final year project, which can be either research or practice based – it’s your choice. You can also increasingly pursue your own interests and develop your individual talents through the modules that you select over the course of the degree, allowing you to focus more on practical skills, traditional academic learning, or a blend of the two.
Structure
You can complete your degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.
Year 1
Introduction to (Digital) Media (15 credits)
Digital Practice: An Introduction (15 credits)
Ghost in the Machine: Uncanny Media from the Typewriter to the Chatbot (15 credits)
Understanding Global Cultures (15 credits)
Knowledge and Power (30 credits)
+ 30 credits of elective (optional) modules, for example:
Language and AI
Scriptwriting: Creativity and Technique
Myths and Debates about Human Language
Brief Encounters: Around the World in Short Stories
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 2
Year 2
Digital Culture and Society (15 credits)
Race and Digital Media (15 credits)
Adventures in World Literature (15 credits)
Digital Filmmaking/The Visual Essay (15 credits, alternating years)
+ 60 credits of elective (optional) modules, for example:
Literatures of the Postcolonial World
History of the Internet
To be Continued: Adaptations of Global Literary Classics
Contemporary World Cinemas
Coding for linguists
Other Ways of Seeing Modern Art
Language modules: French, Spanish, Russian, German, Mandarin, Arabic, Japanese, Portuguese or Catalan
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Year 3
Literary Culture in the Digital Age (15 credits)
Digital Media and Global Cultures Research Project OR Digital Media and Global Cultures Practice Project (30 credits)
+75 credits of elective (optional) modules, for example:
Videogames: History, Culture and Representation from Pacman to Pokemon
Creative Producing
Culture from Below: The Politics of the Popular
The Digital Critic: Reading with Computers
Poetry and Media
Multimodality, Media and Language
Look Who’s Computing Now
School of the Arts Review (STAR): Edit, Write, Publish
Language modules: French, Spanish, Russian, German, Mandarin, Arabic, Japanese, Portuguese or Catalan
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.
Study options
Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.
Year abroad
Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our Digital Media BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).
Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary.
Teaching
Teaching and learning
You’ll receive approximately eight hours of weekly contact time, in the form of lectures, seminar groups and workshops.
For every hour spent in class, you’ll complete a further two to three hours of independent study.
Assessment
Assessment typically includes a combination of exams and coursework, or coursework only. The final year may include completion of a research project.
Resources and facilities
The School offers excellent on-campus resources to aid your studies, including:
- the Queen Mary library
- departmental guest speaker seminars, which allow you to hear from Queen Mary academics, researchers and experts from institutions in Europe and North America
- events throughout the year, such as public debates, film nights and book launches, which attract diverse audiences and offer networking opportunities.
Our degree programmes incorporate critical thinking and practice-based learning and develop graduates who progress into an exciting range of professions from the creative industries to digital media and communications, from work in the culture and arts sectors to working abroad with languages and intercultural understanding.
Entry requirements
| A-Level | Grades BBB at A-Level. |
| IB | International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum of 30 points overall, including 5,5,5 from three Higher Level subjects. |
| BTEC | See our detailed subject and grade requirements |
| Access HE | We consider applications from students with the Access to Higher Education Diploma. The minimum academic requirement is to achieve 60 credits overall, with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 15 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. Applications are considered on a case by case basis. Due to the high volume of applications, we do not make offers of study purely on the basis of meeting grade requirements. |
| GCSE | Minimum five GCSE passes including English at grade C or 4. |
| EPQ | Alternative offers may be made to applicants taking the Extended Project Qualification. For further information please visit: qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/entry/epq |
| Contextualised admissions | Our standard contextual offer: BCC Our enhanced contextual offer: CCC More information on our contextual offer criteria can be found on our contextualised admissions page. Please note that General Studies and Critical Thinking are excluded from any A-Level offer and cannot be considered. |
| A-Level | Grades BBB at A-Level. |
| IB | International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum of 30 points overall, including 5,5,5 from three Higher Level subjects. |
| BTEC | See our detailed subject and grade requirements |
| Access HE | We consider applications from students with the Access to Higher Education Diploma. The minimum academic requirement is to achieve 60 credits overall, with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 15 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. Applications are considered on a case by case basis. Due to the high volume of applications, we do not make offers of study purely on the basis of meeting grade requirements. |
| GCSE | Minimum five GCSE passes including English at grade C or 4. |
| EPQ | Alternative offers may be made to applicants taking the Extended Project Qualification. For further information please visit: qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/entry/epq |
| Contextualised admissions | Our standard contextual offer: BCC Our enhanced contextual offer: CCC More information on our contextual offer criteria can be found on our contextualised admissions page. Please note that General Studies and Critical Thinking are excluded from any A-Level offer and cannot be considered. |
Non-UK students
We accept a wide range of European and international qualifications in addition to A-levels, the International Baccalaureate and BTEC qualifications. Please visit International Admissions for full details.
If your qualifications are not accepted for direct entry onto this degree, consider applying for a foundation programme.
English language
Find out more about our English language entry requirements, including the types of test we accept and the scores needed for entry to the programme.
You may also be able to meet the English language requirement for your programme by joining a summer pre-sessional programme before starting your degree.
Further information
Funding
Loans and grants
UK students accepted onto this course are eligible to apply for tuition fee and maintenance loans from Student Finance England or other government bodies.
Scholarships and bursaries
Queen Mary offers a generous package of scholarships and bursaries, which currently benefits around 50 per cent of our undergraduates.
Scholarships are available for home, EU and international students. Specific funding is also available for students from the local area. International students may be eligible for a fee reduction. We offer means-tested funding, as well as subject-specific funding for many degrees.
Find out what scholarships and bursaries are available to you.
Support from Queen Mary
We offer specialist support on all financial and welfare issues through our Advice and Counselling Service, which you can access as soon as you have applied for a place at Queen Mary.
Take a look at our Student Advice Guides which cover ways to finance your degree, including:
- additional sources of funding
- planning your budget and cutting costs
- part-time and vacation work
- money for lone parents.
Careers
Our graduates have skills such as analytical and critical thinking, and the ability to produce high-quality written work. They also approach the world with a broad cultural understanding. Coupled with multiple opportunities for extra-curricular activities and work experience, they are well prepared for the world of work.
Career support
The School of the Arts offers support to students interested in working during their year abroad. Over the years, we have developed relationships with employers around the world and are able to share a number of interesting roles with our students.
Our careers team can also offer:
- specialist advice on choosing a career path
- support with finding work experience, internships and graduate jobs
- feedback on CVs, cover letters and application forms
- interview coaching.
Learn more about career support and development at Queen Mary.
About the School
The School of the Arts combines innovation, discovery and excellence in education and research in Drama, Film, Modern Languages, English & Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, Linguistics and Liberal Arts. We rank in the top 100 worldwide for Arts and Humanities (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024)
With our commitment to social justice, inclusivity and social mobility, our collaborations with external organisations, prominent writers and performers, and our facilities that support both academic and practice-based learning, an education in the School of the Arts equips our students with critical thinking and practical skills, unleashes their imagination and enables them to reach the levels of excellence needed in today’s industries.
We regularly host prominent writers and performers and collaborate with leading organisations such as the V&A, the Barbican, the Live Art Development Agency and Shakespeare’s Globe.
We are renowned for the depth and impact of research - which leads our teaching. We rank 1st for drama and in the top 10 for film in the UK for the quality of our research (REF2021). Our multilingual community brings together brilliant minds from across the world to share a wealth of expertise combining research excellence with an unrivalled commitment to social justice and social mobility.
