Strand Campus
Strand Campus sits along the Thames at London's cultural heart. Alongside world-class teaching spaces, students enjoy access to the pedestrianised Strand Quad, with Somerset House and iconic landmarks just steps away.
Overview
Study global media and culture and understand how it shapes the world around you.
Stand out by combining your media skills with a language - French, Spanish, German or Portuguese - and develop the confidence to communicate across cultures and borders.
With a compulsory year abroad, you’ll gain the international experience, independence and intercultural skills to prepare for careers in a globalised world.
Key benefits
- Combine languages with global media and explore how media, communication and culture shape societies around the world while developing advanced language skills that employers value internationally.
- Build a flexible degree around your interests. You'll choose from a wide range of interdisciplinary modules across media, film, digital culture, music, politics, literature and cultural industries. Shape your studies around the topics and industries that interest you most.
- Study a language from beginner or advanced level. You'll study French, German, Portuguese or Spanish, whether you already have experience or want to start learning from scratch.
- Gain international experience with a year abroad. Spend your third year studying, working or teaching abroad at one of our partner institutions or placements across Europe and beyond.
- Learn in London and study in one of the world’s leading cultural and media capitals, surrounded by global creative industries, museums, film organisations, cultural institutions and multilingual communities.
- Prepare for a wide range of careers. You'll develop transferable skills in communication, media analysis, digital culture and intercultural understanding that can take you into careers across media, marketing, creative industries, policy, international organisations and more.
- Study at a world-leading university, ranked among the top universities in the UK for both Modern Languages and Communication & Media Studies, giving you access to expertise across both disciplines.
I graduated from King’s in 2016, having studied French & German. After graduating I went on to do the Graduate Diploma and I now work as a solicitor specialising in representing vulnerable suspects in the criminal justice system
Rishi JoshiGraduate
Course aims
- This interdisciplinary degree combines language learning with the study of global media, communication and culture.
- You’ll study modules across multiple departments including: Culture, Media & Creative Industries Languages, Literatures & Cultures Digital Humanities Film Studies Music
- Alongside language study, you’ll explore how media shapes culture, politics and society across different countries and platforms.
- Topics may include: digital culture and social media film and television global media industries gaming cultures celebrity and fandom music and cultural production communication and politics AI, media and society
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