Programme Title

PgDip Media and Broadcast Production

Final Award
(exit route if applicable for Postgraduate Taught Programmes)

Postgraduate Diploma

Programme Code

BCP-PD-MB

UCAS Code

HECoS Code

100444

ATAS Clearance Required

No

Health Check Required

No

Portfolio Required

Please note, applicants for this course are required to submit a piece of recent written work on an academic topic that represents your best work to date (not more than 3000 words).

Interview Required

Mode of Study

Full Time

Type of Programme

Postgraduate

Length of Programme

1 Academic Year(s)

Total Credits for Programme

120

Exit Awards available

Awarding Institution/Body

Queen's University Belfast

Teaching Institution

Queen's University Belfast

School/Department

Arts, English and Languages

Framework for Higher Education Qualification Level 
www.qaa.ac.uk

Level 7

QAA Benchmark Group
www.qaa.ac.uk/quality-code/subject-benchmark-statements

English (2015)

Accreditations (PSRB)

Does the Programme have any approved exemptions from the University General Regulations
(Please see General Regulations)

N/A

Programme Specific Regulations

Students may undertake the dissertation and upgrade to a Masters if they reach the required standard in their taught modules.

Students with protected characteristics

N/A

Are students subject to Fitness to Practise Regulations

(Please see General Regulations)

No

Learning Outcomes: Cognitive Skills

On the completion of this course successful students will be able to:

think independently and in an organised fashion;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Full and committed participation to all aspects of the programme, from its theoretically-driven ‘discourse’ pathway, to its production-orientated approach to the ‘practice’ of broadcasting.

Skills are nurtured through class debate and discussion, through the keeping of reflexive journals that accompany practical work, and through the practice of writing.

Methods of Assessment

Students are expected from the outset to think independently, and are encouraged to develop their own ideas for their assessed work, whether for the written essay-style format or for practical project-based outputs.

Formative and summative written work not only improves students' ability to engage with the relevant scholarship but also, because it involves working towards specified deadlines, helps them hone their time-management skills.

recognise and analyse the varying forms and modes of transmission of broadcast discourse;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Full and committed participation to all aspects of the programme, from its theoretically-driven ‘discourse’ pathway, to its production-orientated approach to the ‘practice’ of broadcasting.

Skills are nurtured through class debate and discussion, through the keeping of reflexive journals that accompany practical work, and through the practice of writing.

Methods of Assessment

Students are expected from the outset to think independently, and are encouraged to develop their own ideas for their assessed work, whether for the written essay-style format or for practical project-based outputs.

Formative and summative written work not only improves students' ability to engage with the relevant scholarship but also, because it involves working towards specified deadlines, helps them hone their time-management skills.

synthesise different theoretical or scholarly frameworks in an analysis, and to critique these frameworks where appropriate;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Full and committed participation to all aspects of the programme, from its theoretically-driven ‘discourse’ pathway, to its production-orientated approach to the ‘practice’ of broadcasting.

Skills are nurtured through class debate and discussion, through the keeping of reflexive journals that accompany practical work, and through the practice of writing.

Methods of Assessment

Students are expected from the outset to think independently, and are encouraged to develop their own ideas for their assessed work, whether for the written essay-style format or for practical project-based outputs.

Formative and summative written work not only improves students' ability to engage with the relevant scholarship but also, because it involves working towards specified deadlines, helps them hone their time-management skills.

Learning Outcomes: Transferable Skills

On the completion of this course successful students will be able to:

absorb both theoretical and experiential learning;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Full and committed participation to all aspects of the programme, from its theoretically-driven ‘discourse’ pathway, to its production-orientated approach to the ‘practice’ of broadcasting.

Skills are nurtured through class debate and discussion, through the keeping of reflexive journals that accompany practical work, and through the practice of writing.

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Students are expected from the outset to think independently, and are encouraged to develop their own ideas for their assessed work, whether for the written essay-style format or for practical project-based outputs.

Formative and summative written work not only improves students' ability to engage with the relevant scholarship but also, because it involves working towards specified deadlines, helps them hone their time-management skills.

Learning Outcomes: Cognitive Skills

On the completion of this course successful students will be able to:

identify appropriate external evidence and scholarly support and to differentiate between variant ideological and theoretical positions;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Full and committed participation to all aspects of the programme, from its theoretically-driven ‘discourse’ pathway, to its production-orientated approach to the ‘practice’ of broadcasting.

Skills are nurtured through class debate and discussion, through the keeping of reflexive journals that accompany practical work, and through the practice of writing.

Methods of Assessment

Students are expected from the outset to think independently, and are encouraged to develop their own ideas for their assessed work, whether for the written essay-style format or for practical project-based outputs.

Formative and summative written work not only improves students' ability to engage with the relevant scholarship but also, because it involves working towards specified deadlines, helps them hone their time-management skills.

Learning Outcomes: Transferable Skills

On the completion of this course successful students will be able to:

analyse and assess their own performance critically, and that of others, in a scholarly context;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Full and committed participation to all aspects of the programme, from its theoretically-driven ‘discourse’ pathway, to its production-orientated approach to the ‘practice’ of broadcasting.

Skills are nurtured through class debate and discussion, through the keeping of reflexive journals that accompany practical work, and through the practice of writing.

Methods of Assessment

Students are expected from the outset to think independently, and are encouraged to develop their own ideas for their assessed work, whether for the written essay-style format or for practical project-based outputs.

Formative and summative written work not only improves students' ability to engage with the relevant scholarship but also, because it involves working towards specified deadlines, helps them hone their time-management skills.

analyse and interpret material with an awareness of its political, historical and cultural contexts;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Students are expected from the outset to think independently, and are encouraged to develop their own ideas for their assessed work, whether for the written essay-style format or for practical project-based outputs.

Formative and summative written work not only improves students' ability to engage with the relevant scholarship but also, because it involves working towards specified deadlines, helps them hone their time-management skills.

Learning Outcomes: Cognitive Skills

On the completion of this course successful students will be able to:

work autonomously, manifested in self-direction, objective-setting, prioritising and time-management;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Students are expected from the outset to think independently, and are encouraged to develop their own ideas for their assessed work, whether for the written essay-style format or for practical project-based outputs.

Formative and summative written work not only improves students' ability to engage with the relevant scholarship but also, because it involves working towards specified deadlines, helps them hone their time-management skills.

develop further research communication and other employment-related skills;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

N/A

Methods of Assessment

Online assessments and short essays.

Learning Outcomes: Transferable Skills

On the completion of this course successful students will be able to:

work individually and in teams;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

N/A

Methods of Assessment

Online assessments and short essays.

Learning Outcomes: Cognitive Skills

On the completion of this course successful students will be able to:

articulate the significance of public humanities approaches within and beyond their discipline.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

2 full days in conference style (combination of plenary lectures and breakout groups) as part of Faculty research methods provision.

Mini-conference style (plenary lectures and breakout sessions) across a full day.

Methods of Assessment

Online assessments and short essays.

Learning Outcomes: Transferable Skills

On the completion of this course successful students will be able to:

work across different academic disciplines and traditions of research;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminar discussion, student interaction and interaction with individual staff hone communication and rhetorical skills.

A range of knowledge forms are developed – all of which will elicit feedback from staff and peers.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

A range of knowledge forms are developed – from presentations of theoretical discussions and analysis in class to completed web blogs, short documentaries or vox pop interviews – all of which will elicit feedback from staff and peers.

Student-devised essays along with supporting commentaries.

locate and critique ideologies of discourse in the public domain;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminar discussion, student interaction and interaction with individual staff hone communication and rhetorical skills.

A range of knowledge forms are developed – from presentations of theoretical discussions and analysis in class to completed web blogs, short documentaries or vox pop interviews – all of which will elicit feedback from staff and peers.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

A range of knowledge forms are developed – from presentations of theoretical discussions and analysis in class to completed web blogs, short documentaries or vox pop interviews – all of which will elicit feedback from staff and peers.

Student-devised essays along with supporting commentaries.

pursue sophisticated intellectual inquiry and to engage in the stimulating interchange of ideas;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminar discussion, student interaction and interaction with individual staff hone communication and rhetorical skills.

A range of knowledge forms are developed – from presentations of theoretical discussions and analysis in class to completed web blogs, short documentaries or vox pop interviews – all of which will elicit feedback from staff and peers.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

A range of knowledge forms are developed – from presentations of theoretical discussions and analysis in class to completed web blogs, short documentaries or vox pop interviews – all of which will elicit feedback from staff and peers.

Student-devised essays along with supporting commentaries.

orient the skills developed on the M.A. towards an engagement in the broader cultural activities of Northern Ireland;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminar discussion, student interaction and interaction with individual staff hone communication and rhetorical skills.

A range of knowledge forms are developed – from presentations of theoretical discussions and analysis in class to completed web blogs, short documentaries or vox pop interviews – all of which will elicit feedback from staff and peers.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

A range of knowledge forms are developed – from presentations of theoretical discussions and analysis in class to completed web blogs, short documentaries or vox pop interviews – all of which will elicit feedback from staff and peers.

Student-devised essays along with supporting commentaries.

construct complex arguments that are lucid and well-organised and draw on a range of appropriate types of evidence, from the large to the small scale, and communicate these effectively in writing;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminar discussion, student interaction and interaction with individual staff hone communication and rhetorical skills.

A range of knowledge forms are developed – from presentations of theoretical discussions and analysis in class to completed web blogs, short documentaries or vox pop interviews – all of which will elicit feedback from staff and peers.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

A range of knowledge forms are developed – from presentations of theoretical discussions and analysis in class to completed web blogs, short documentaries or vox pop interviews – all of which will elicit feedback from staff and peers.

Student-devised essays along with supporting commentaries.

develop efficient time-management skills, including the ability to work under time pressure;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

N/A

Methods of Assessment

Student-devised essays along with supporting commentaries.

identify and use appropriate scholarly sources;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Generating essay projects.

Methods of Assessment

Student-devised essays along with supporting commentaries.

offer and receive constructive criticism of their own and others’ work, and to respond positively and productively to feedback on their own work;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

N/A

Methods of Assessment

N/A

utilise effective oral, argumentative and interpersonal skills in group contexts;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

N/A

Methods of Assessment

N/A

initiate, structure and lead group discussion;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

N/A

Methods of Assessment

N/A

think creatively and maturely in diverse intellectual situations;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Formative and summative written work not only improves students' ability to engage with the relevant scholarship but also, because it involves working towards specified deadlines, helps them hone their time-management skills.

access electronic databases and other IT technologies;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Formative and summative written work not only improves students' ability to engage with the relevant scholarship but also, because it involves working towards specified deadlines, helps them hone their time-management skills.

display advanced skills in oral, written and digital communication skills;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Formative and summative written work not only improves students' ability to engage with the relevant scholarship but also, because it involves working towards specified deadlines, helps them hone their time-management skills.

develop further research communication and other employment-related skills.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

N/A

Methods of Assessment

Formative and summative written work not only improves students' ability to engage with the relevant scholarship but also, because it involves working towards specified deadlines, helps them hone their time-management skills.

Learning Outcomes: Knowledge & Understanding

On the completion of this course successful students will be able to:

understand the relationship between broadcasting and its historical context, with specific reference to the BBC;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminars and workshops with the emphasis across both platforms of delivery on student-led learning.

A dedicated research methods component introduces students to the major theoretical debates, guaranteeing that they encounter a diverse range of critical frameworks and approaches.

Student presentations and team-teaching promotes open discussion.

Methods of Assessment

Student presentations enhance oral skills and develop the ability to engage effectively with critical debate.

Student-devised projects enable students to demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for research.

have an in-depth knowledge of the complexity of the wide range of ‘multi-modal’ discourses that comprise contemporary broadcasting;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminars and workshops with the emphasis across both platforms of delivery on student-led learning.

A dedicated research methods component introduces students to the major theoretical debates, guaranteeing that they encounter a diverse range of critical frameworks and approaches.

Student presentations and team-teaching promotes open discussion.

Methods of Assessment

Student presentations enhance oral skills and develop the ability to engage effectively with critical debate.

Student-devised projects enable students to demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for research.

articulate the relationship between forms of broadcast discourse and the material production techniques behind their construction;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminars and workshops with the emphasis across both platforms of delivery on student-led learning.

A dedicated research methods component introduces students to the major theoretical debates, guaranteeing that they encounter a diverse range of critical frameworks and approaches.

Student presentations and team-teaching promotes open discussion.

Methods of Assessment

Student presentations enhance oral skills and develop the ability to engage effectively with critical debate.

Student-devised projects enable students to demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for research.

demonstrate the developmental progression of a broadcast text, from its inception as an idea or concept, through its production, to its transmission and delivery as discourse;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminars and workshops with the emphasis across both platforms of delivery on student-led learning.

A dedicated research methods component introduces students to the major theoretical debates, guaranteeing that they encounter a diverse range of critical frameworks and approaches.

Student presentations and team-teaching promotes open discussion.

Methods of Assessment

Student presentations enhance oral skills and develop the ability to engage effectively with critical debate.

Student-devised projects enable students to demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for research.

understand how the production and transmission of broadcast texts influence issues of interpretation and intentionality;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminars and workshops with the emphasis across both platforms of delivery on student-led learning.

A dedicated research methods component introduces students to the major theoretical debates, guaranteeing that they encounter a diverse range of critical frameworks and approaches.

Student presentations and team-teaching promotes open discussion.

Methods of Assessment

Student presentations enhance oral skills and develop the ability to engage effectively with critical debate.

Student-devised projects enable students to demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for research.

apply theoretical models to the practice of broadcasting;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminars and workshops with the emphasis across both platforms of delivery on student-led learning.

A dedicated research methods component introduces students to the major theoretical debates, guaranteeing that they encounter a diverse range of critical frameworks and approaches.

Student presentations and team-teaching promotes open discussion.

Methods of Assessment

Student presentations enhance oral skills and develop the ability to engage effectively with critical debate.

Student-devised projects enable students to demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for research.

acquire and enhance a wide range of skills that will equip them to make significant and productive contributions in the workplace and beyond after they graduate;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

N/A

Methods of Assessment

Online assessments and short essays.

develop further research communication and other employment-related skills.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

N/A

Methods of Assessment

Online assessments and short essays.

Learning Outcomes: Subject Specific

On the completion of this course successful students will be able to:

analyse systematically a range of broadcast genres;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Practice-based workshops and demonstrations that explore the creative processes behind real broadcast texts.
Specialist elective modules which further refine, develop and hone the skills imported from the compulsory research methods modules.
Writing essays which require the analysis of broadcast texts using contemporary academic frameworks of analysis, and which respect standard scholarly norms and practice.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

incorporate insights from academic theory and debate into a discussion of individual broadcast texts;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Practice-based workshops and demonstrations that explore the creative processes behind real broadcast texts.
Specialist elective modules which further refine, develop and hone the skills imported from the compulsory research methods modules.
Writing essays which require the analysis of broadcast texts using contemporary academic frameworks of analysis, and which respect standard scholarly norms and practice.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

use production facilities, relevant IT technologies and audio-visual equipment in developing original broadcasting projects;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Practice-based workshops and demonstrations that explore the creative processes behind real broadcast texts.
Specialist elective modules which further refine, develop and hone the skills imported from the compulsory research methods modules.
Writing essays which require the analysis of broadcast texts using contemporary academic frameworks of analysis, and which respect standard scholarly norms and practice.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

write lucidly on the systemic organisation of broadcast discourse, covering its linguistic, aural and visual design;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Practice-based workshops and demonstrations that explore the creative processes behind real broadcast texts.

Specialist elective modules which further refine, develop and hone the skills imported from the compulsory research methods modules

Writing essays which require the analysis of broadcast texts using contemporary academic frameworks of analysis, and which respect standard scholarly norms and practice.

Methods of Assessment

A range of knowledge forms are developed – from presentations of theoretical discussions and analysis in class to completed web blogs, short documentaries or vox pop interviews – all of which will elicit feedback from staff and peers.

Student-devised essays along with supporting commentaries.

Projects, presentations, reflective journals and essays that are informed by current scholarship in the field.

produce scholarly essays which integrate secondary academic reading on media and discourse with the close analysis of a particular broadcast text;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Practice-based workshops and demonstrations that explore the creative processes behind real broadcast texts.

Specialist elective modules which further refine, develop and hone the skills imported from the compulsory research methods modules

Writing essays which require the analysis of broadcast texts using contemporary academic frameworks of analysis, and which respect standard scholarly norms and practice.

Methods of Assessment

A range of knowledge forms are developed – from presentations of theoretical discussions and analysis in class to completed web blogs, short documentaries or vox pop interviews – all of which will elicit feedback from staff and peers.

Student-devised essays along with supporting commentaries.

Projects, presentations, reflective journals and essays that are informed by current scholarship in the field.

explain the wider social, political and cultural contexts of broadcasting, and to write cogently on these contexts and the issues they raise;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Practice-based workshops and demonstrations that explore the creative processes behind real broadcast texts.

Specialist elective modules which further refine, develop and hone the skills imported from the compulsory research methods modules

Writing essays which require the analysis of broadcast texts using contemporary academic frameworks of analysis, and which respect standard scholarly norms and practice.

Methods of Assessment

A range of knowledge forms are developed – from presentations of theoretical discussions and analysis in class to completed web blogs, short documentaries or vox pop interviews – all of which will elicit feedback from staff and peers.

Student-devised essays along with supporting commentaries.

Projects, presentations, reflective journals and essays that are informed by current scholarship in the field.

utilise a range of research tools, resources, and methodologies, and to understand and put into practice the standard protocols of referencing in the written work required on the course;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Practice-based workshops and demonstrations that explore the creative processes behind real broadcast texts.

Specialist elective modules which further refine, develop and hone the skills imported from the compulsory research methods modules

Writing essays which require the analysis of broadcast texts using contemporary academic frameworks of analysis, and which respect standard scholarly norms and practice.

Methods of Assessment

A range of knowledge forms are developed – from presentations of theoretical discussions and analysis in class to completed web blogs, short documentaries or vox pop interviews – all of which will elicit feedback from staff and peers.

Student-devised essays along with supporting commentaries.

Projects, presentations, reflective journals and essays that are informed by current scholarship in the field.

display a wide range of skills that will equip them to make significant and productive contributions in the workplace and beyond after they graduate.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

N/A

Methods of Assessment

Online assessments and short essays.