This degree combines a vocationally orientated programme in the skills and principles of 21st-century digital news and media as currently under development, with understanding of the cultural, linguistic and literary contexts from which contemporary digital culture has emerged. It aims to familiarise students with a broad range of essential and advanced media principles and writing/production techniques and production techniques.

The Digital News and Media programme’s key aims are:
• To provide students with the linguistic and media-related knowledge and understanding expected of those who wish to communicate and work in English in the local/global media industries of the 21st century.
• To develop students’ language and computing skills to function effectively in the local/global media environment.
To provide opportunities for students to improve their own competence in using English as a means of communication in the local/global media environment.

The key aims of Digital News and Media with Flexible Honours are:
- To provide students with knowledge of a range of cognate or contrasting subjects and disciplines selected according to each student’s intellectual interests and career objectives; or, ditto, of a single secondary subject/discipline, where ≥90 units are selected at appropriate FHEQ Levels.
- To instil understanding of the methodologies and critical approaches, at basic, intermediate and advanced levels, of a range of cognate or contrasting subjects; or, of a single secondary subject/discipline where ≥90 units are selected at appropriate FHEQ Levels and local prerequisites are complied with.
- To provide opportunities to synthesise and tailor knowledge and understanding to a bespoke programme of study undertaken with the advice and guidance of the Department of English and Digital News and Media.
- To facilitate the study, either broad or in-depth, of more than one subject/discipline, and to provide a wider range of skills-related outcomes than the study of Flexible Honours.

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Please note: This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if he/she takes full advantage of the learning opportunities that are provided. More detailed information on the learning outcomes, content and teaching, learning and assessment methods of each course unit/module can be found in the departmental or programme handbook. The accuracy of the information contained in this document is reviewed annually by the University of Buckingham and may be checked by the Quality Assurance Agency.