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Media Studies - Level 3 Diploma Course

Course Format:Online Course (With Optional Paper-Based Course Notes)
Self-Study Time:Approximately 200 Hours (Self-Study)
Delivery Time:1-3 Working Days (Email)
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Course Description

The Media Studies - Level 3 Diploma Course is an introduction to this fascinating subject and will teach students about the history of media, showing comparisons with modern day media and will detail how modern day media affects all of our lives.

Access to Media and information technology has never been so important and is integral to most industries and professions and has become critical to policy making and teaching in government, schools and universities.

The nations media, press and information sectors are the subject to intense public concern and scrutiny and there is a growing acceptance of their unrivalled importance in our daily lives and with democratic institutions. Never before have the once separate worlds of news, stored knowledge, and the products of the mass media and entertainment industries converged locally, nationally, and globally, with even greater convergence certain to take place in the years ahead.

The Media Studies Diploma course makes clear the meaning of "media studies" in its widest context and will appeal to those wanting to explore this exciting and innovative vocational area.

On successful completion of this course students will receive a Level 3 Endorsed Certificate of Achievement from NCFE.

The Media Studies - Level 3 Diploma Course includes the following units:
The following topics are covered: Why study the media?; Control and Regulation; Denotation and connotation; Audience reception theory; Textual Analysis - including Narrative, Genre, Media Institutions, Media Values and; Ideology, and Media Audiences and Media language.
The following topics are covered: Criticism of Advertising; Audience theories - Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the hypodermic needle theory, uses and gratifications theory; Charity campaigning; Product placement; and Guerilla marketing.
The following topics are covered: Background on institutions; Sitcoms; Intertextuality; and Audiences.
The following topics are covered: Narrative theory; Media texts; The cause-and-effect chain; Modern theories: Narrative in cinema; The Field theory plot; Goal-oriented plots; Auteur theory; and Post modernism.
The following topics are covered: Media technology; Key concepts; Planning and pre-production; Advertising; Identifying the target audience; The brief; and Website pre-production.
The following topics are covered: What are Mediation Texts?; and Case Studies.
The following topics are covered: Hybrids; Mars Attacks! 1996; How do genres adapt to changing social economic and political contexts?; and Case Studies.
The following topics are covered: Newspapers; Broadsheet versus tabloid; News institutions; and An industrial process.
The following topics are covered: The Internet; The impact of new media; The audience as a producer; The entertainment industry and the Copyright; Social networking and privacy; New media institutions; Successful use of the internet and new media by TV; and Games.
The following topics are covered: Essay stages; Preparing to begin; 10 steps to a top-flight essay; Conducting independent research; The 7 sins of flawed research; and Writing a bibliography.
Course Format & Delivery

You will receive access to the course materials through an online portal for a 12-month period. Students can use the portal for accessing their course materials, submitting assignments and to log tutor questions. 

Please Note: An optional hard-copy version of the course notes can be purchased for an additional £48.00. This is useful for learners who also want to study away from the computer and means they have course notes they can keep and refer back to beyond their online course license.

Delivery of the hard-copy materials is usually within 5 to 10 working days by a recorded delivery service.

Prerequistes

There are no particular entry requirements for this course, so students can sign up providing they are comfortable studying at a Level 3 standard.

Course Duration & Online Support

You can start this course at any time, and you would be registered for a one-year period. You also have access to a personal tutor who can be contacted through the online portal or by email. Your tutor is available to assist with any queries and to mark your assignments for the Awarding Organisation.

As the course is self-study, you can complete it as quickly as you like. Support extensions are available if students do not complete the course within the one-year period.

Assessment

Students will be required to complete a number of assignments. Your personal tutor will review, mark and provide you with feedback on your work. Coursework assignments can be returned by uploading to the online portal, by email or by post.

We recommend that assignments are completed and returned as word-processed documents through the online portal. Handwritten documents can be accepted but need to be clear and legible and may be subject to a longer marking time.

NCFE Level 3 Certificate of Achievement

On successful completion of this course students will receive a Level 3 Certificate of Achievement issued by NCFE and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the details of all the units you have completed as part of your course).

The Certification has been accredited by NCFE as a Customised Qualification and leads to a certificate of achievement. It is not an Ofqual Regulated Qualification and the certificate is evidence of the knowledge and skills gained by completing the course.

NCFE is recognised as an Awarding Organisation by the qualification regulators for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, who are: the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator (Ofqual) in England, the Welsh Government, and the Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) in Northern Ireland. This customised qualification has been developed by NCC to meet the specific needs of learners and has been accredited by NCFE demonstrating the quality and rigor. The learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 3 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of difficulty involved in successful completion by the learner. Information on level descriptors can be found on the Ofqual's level descriptors page.

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