Arts and Human Sciences (AHS) Undergraduate Prospectus
BA (Hons)
Location Location
Southwark Southwark
BA (Hons)
Game Cultures
Duration Duration
Media and Cultural Studies
3 years (full-time) 3 years (full-time)
Start date Start date
September September
Number of places Number of places
30 25
Arts and Human Sciences Arts and Human Sciences
Course description We encourage students to engage with
Timetable Timetable
Course description and gallery curation. The course is also
This course is based in an Arts and outside professional bodies as a means
Full-time: days only Full-time: days only
This degree provides an opportunity to suitable for those who wish to pursue
Humanities faculty rather than a of increasing their profile and gaining
How to apply How to apply
study the media in social and cultural higher degrees and postgraduate
computing or engineering department, experience. In 2008 five of our second
Via UCAS Via UCAS
contexts. The course is theory-based, qualifications in media or cultural
as is the case with most equivalent year students were successfully placed in with assessments consisting of essays studies fields or professional studies
UCAS code UCAS code
(AHS)
courses around the country. As a result, the highly prestigious ’Dare to be Digital’
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or exams. such as law.
(AHS)
we analyse and create games rooted in Festival, sponsored by the BBC, Channel
a cultural and media studies perspective. Four, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, the
Course contact Course contact
At Level One you will analyse images Progression routes
Colin Harvey Dr. Terri Daniels
The course is 50% theory and 50% Scottish Executive and Rockstar. Also in
harveycb@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 5702
danielta@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 5749
in photography, film, advertising and to postgraduate study
practice-based. 2008, a group of our first year students television, and be introduced to debates Successful graduates of this course have
were commissioned by the BBC to
Typical offer Typical offer
about media histories and technologies. gone on to study at Masters level in
160 UCAS Tariff points 160 UCAS Tariff points
The course covers issues such as game produce freelance games content. At Levels Two and Three, you will study areas such as journalism, international
play mechanics, narrative design, 3D
Course units Course units
media approaches to reality, how relations and for the PGCE. Students
modelling and 3D animation for game Progression routes
Level 1 Level 1
consumers use the media, theories may also wish to continue studying here
– Game Contexts – Critical Social Theory
environments, interface design, the to postgraduate study
– Playtime – Media Orientations
of identity and representation, media at LSBU on our MA Scheme in Creative
tension between gameplay and story, Successful graduates have gone on to
– RePlay – Media Histories
ethics and urban and global media Media Arts. Our project-centred MA
as well as issues of representation and study at Masters level. Students may also
– Media Orientations – Image Analysis
and culture. scheme allows students to develop their
– Cultural Industries – Cultural Industries
consumption. As well as focussing on wish to continue studying here at LSBU
– Image Analysis – British Government and Politics
own work in areas such as video, script
console and computer games, we also on our MA Scheme in Creative Media
Level 2 Level 2
The degree aims to produce graduates work, and journalism.
explore such topics as casual games, art Arts. Our project-centred MA in New
– Storytime – Real Lives
with intellectual independence and
– Solid Worlds – Significant Others
games, newsgames and serious games. Media also allows students to develop
– Physical Education – Consuming Passions
a thorough understanding of the Professional contacts/industry links
Game-specific units are augmented by their own work in a range of genres.
– Guerrilla Gaming – Cultural Memory
theoretical implications of the media Lecturers maintain contact with a
critical theory units exploring issues of
– ReCreation – European Mass Media
and the culture we inhabit. variety of practitioners across the media
– Significant Others – Politics and Film
representation, the structure of media Professional contacts/industry links
– Real Lives Level 3
and cultural industries, as well as with
institutions, concepts of ‘otherness’ and The course is taught by Steve Morgan,
– Cultural Memory – Ethical Media
Career opportunities successful graduates.
cultural memory. a 3D modeller and animator; Jerry
Level 3 – Representing Gender in Film
A high number of our graduates
– Ethical Media – Dissertation
Boucher, a graphic artist with over ten
– Brief-led Project – Global Cultures
gain first employment in a range of Recent guest lecturers
The emphasis of the course is on game years’ experience in the games industry;
– Collaborative Project
media industries, including the BBC – Piers Plowright, radio producer
design, level design, game art and game Siobhan Thomas, a leading researcher
– Advanced Independent Practice
and commercial television companies, – Lucy Reece, television producer.
– Dissertation
analysis, rather than programming. As a with the London Games Research independent film companies, local
consequence, much of the production Group, an expert on Alternative Reality and national newspapers, advertising For full entry requirements see pages
work undertaken utilises Middleware Gaming who has previously worked agencies, local radio, music publishing 252 to 253.
software solutions such as Unreal. for Microsoft and a member of the and photography agencies. Non-media
We also teach industry-standard 3D organising committee for the London destinations include teaching, lecturing
software such as 3D Studio Max, the Chapter of the International Game in further education, administration and
behaviour-led interactive development Developers’ Association; and Colin junior management in the Civil Service
tool Virtools, Flash and Photoshop skills. Harvey, who has worked as a freelance and local government, and museum
designer for Sony and written games
Career opportunities journalism for Edge, RetroGamer,
We have strong links with the games ScriptWriter and Develop.
industry. Our students have worked
with THQ, Electronic Arts, Buena Vista For full entry requirements see pages
(Disney’s game development arm), 252 to 253.
Squaresoft, Sega and PlayGen.
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