**Foundation Year**
Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.

**International Students**
For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. Applications for International Foundation Years are also handled by KUIC; please do not apply via UCAS as the University will not be able to process your application and you may still be charged the UCAS application fee. To find out more and to apply for an International Foundation Year, visit https://kuic.keele.ac.uk/

**Digital Media**
Interested in the evolution of digital media and what this means for our future? Have you considered our world without it? Would we have music videos, social media or even online shopping? Keele's Digital Media BA introduces you to the key challenges and developments arising from the increasing prevalence of digital media in society. On this course you will develop a diverse range of skills including communication, analytical thinking and creativity, each preparing you to successfully navigate the professional world of digital media employment and other fields. You will build a critical awareness of technologies, industries, media platforms and digital cultures, whilst developing and demonstrating your practical content creation skills, enabling you to evolve into a responsible, socially and politically aware digital media professional.

**Why choose this course?**
- Our core modules use authentic assessment methods in the form of coursework, helping to develop your application of theory into practice

- Film Studies and Media at Keele: Top 10 in England for student positivity* NSS 2023 (BROAD-BASED UNIVERSITIES) *based on overall student satisfaction, which is an average score across 27 questions asked in the NSS

- On-demand access to the Media Building – gain practical skills using film, sound and image production facilities

- Critically analyse the evolution of digital media in society

- Enhance your career prospects with transferable skills in content creation, communication and the creative arts

Digital media is now a key part of our political, economic, cultural and social life with limitless potential for communication, connection and creative expression, but it also poses risks and comes with responsibilities in its usage.

Throughout this course, you will explore industry knowledge, technology, digital media platforms and consumers, acquiring the relevant skills to critically analyse the digital media landscape as a whole.

**About Keele**
Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.