Wildlife Media (with integrated foundation year)
UCAS Code: CW37
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Access to HE Diploma
60 credits, 45 must be passed at Level 3
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Scottish Higher
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About this course
Do you have a passion for animals and the natural world? Well, you can combine it with film and photography to learn how to tell wildlife stories through media.
This undergraduate course is the only one of its type in the UK.
You’ll learn to create polished, professional wildlife documentaries charting the relationship between humans and the natural world.
Our foundation year will help you reach the right level for taking the rest of the degree, building a solid foundation of skills from which to expand upon.
**Why Choose Cumbria University**
There’s no better place to study wildlife than here in beautiful Cumbria. You’ll be surrounded by breath-taking coastlines, vast moorlands and the 912 square-miles of the iconic Lake District National Park with its mountains, rivers and lakes – and a vast array of unique habitats and diverse wildlife.
And, from your Carlisle base, you’ll be away from the hussle and bustle of city life, studying on a campus that sits next door to a beautiful park and river.
- You don’t need to have your own kit; we have all the technology you need in our audio-visual media resource centre to create compelling projects
- Taught by tutors who work in the wildlife media industry
- Get an insight into current industry practices from visiting practitioners from diverse production areas
- You’ll use the same technology of that in the professional world to produce top quality content and play a part in the wider understanding and conservation of the world's wildlife
- Cumbria has it all – natural woodlands, beaches, fells, parks and gardens. These provide habitat for a vast array of wildlife – all waiting for your to to explore
- We encourage you to unleash your creativity and inject it into your work
- Learn expedition planning and safe practice to give you breadth of vision and develop logistical skills to boost your CV
- Produce a portfolio of high-quality and captivating documentaries to show future employers
- Develop employability skills - including business and marketing – to boost your career
- Small class sizes - you don’t have to book when you need access to equipment
Former Wildlife Media students have stepped into jobs with organisations such as the National Trust. Many have won national acclaim from the television industry, scooping Royal Television Society awards.
If you want to play a part in making content-rich media that plays a crucial role in the understanding and conserving of the world’s wildlife, our course is for you.
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What do graduate employment figures really tell you?A few years ago graduates from this subject were having a very hard time but things have improved a lot thanks to our active media, film and photographic industries - much the most common employers for this group. The most common jobs are in the arts — as photographers, audio-visual technicians, operators and designers, as directors, as artists and as graphic designers. Training in presenting sound and graphics is useful in other industries as well, so you can find graduates in journalism, in advertising, in business management, in events management and in web design and IT. Be aware that freelancing and self-employment is common in the arts, as are what is termed 'portfolio careers' — having several part-time jobs or commissions at once.
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