BA (Hons) Televison

Overview

Run in partnership with the School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University who enjoy a first class reputation as a centre for excellence in screen practice-led courses, City of Glasgow College offers this innovative degree in Television.

With links to industry in Scotland and beyond, this course reflects the dynamic and converging worlds of broadcast television, film, journalism and new media. This includes our key industry partner, STV, who offer student mentorship and work placement opportunities, as well as master classes, guest speakers and an end-of-year showcase of students’ creative projects. As a student of this course, you will also have the chance to compete for a limited number of internship placements at STV, offering an invaluable opportunity to gain hands on experience in television and online production and get a head start in your career.

Having already gained an ‘HND: Creative Industries, Television’ (or equivalent) this offers a pathway to progress to a Degree course for students who are interested in a practice-led course, are motivated to build on and extend the skills and knowledge gained at College and are focused on the television and screen media industries of the future. Keeping students’ needs in mind, this course strikes balances between gaining professional level technical production skills, developing creative practice through teamwork and individual project work, and following academic studies which seek to analyse and investigate the complex and rapid contemporary changes in the creative media industries.

The course is structured so that students’ individual qualities and interests are identified and developed. There are very close links with industry and with a range of practitioners involved in all aspects of TV production. The teaching staff have direct personal experience working in the industry.

• HND Creative Industries TV, OR
• Relevant Television experience.
• Please apply to Edinburgh Napier University through UCAS making your preference to study at City of Glasgow College clear in your personal statement.

More Information

The BA Television course is structured so that students’ individual qualities and interests are identified and developed. There are very close links with industry and with a range of practitioners involved in all aspects of television production. The teaching staff have direct personal experience working in the industry.

Applications should be directed to Edinburgh Napier making clear in your UCAS personal statement that you would prefer to study in Glasgow.

Career

The television industry is expanding and there are opportunities for skilled graduates both in broadcasting and with independent production companies.

One year, starting in August for the BA award with the option to study for one more year to get the BA (Hons) Television.

City Campus North Hanover Street.