Undergraduate Subject Focus: Communications and Media
Communications is concerned with understanding media institutions, products and technology. A degree in this subject area could be for you if you have an interest in people and how they act individually and collectively, and are continually asking questions about the world around you. Although media studies and communications programmes are generally theoretical in emphasis, many courses incorporate a practical element, giving students first-hand experience of the latest multimedia technologies and meaning that they can confidently enter a variety of careers. Studying...

Tips and Traps for the First year
We at Hotcourses have our fair share of university experiences between us, so here are some things we wish we’d read before we started the first year of University First year work ethic Being a student requires more careful time management than at school – as well as having lectures scattered all over your timetable, you will be expected to spend a lot of study hours reading and doing assignments, and you will have to organise all this yourself. Whilst this can seem like an annoying distraction from the important first year business of making friends and generally having a good time, it’ll...