Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English and Media and Communications with Foundation Year

at University of West London United Kingdom

Would you like to work as a legal expert in the finance sector? This international banking law degree will enhance your ability to work with a range of multinational corporations and international organisations.

Your studies will cover both legal and financial areas of expertise, giving you a well-rounded qualification. Furthermore, your tutors and lecturers have significant practical experience and good connections with industry.

Based in London, the global centre for banking, finance and trade, you will benefit from the excellent links that UWL has with major corporations as well as being close to the centre of legal administration and policy.

Get a head start in your sound engineering career with this multifaceted course, which combines vocational study and academic theory.

The foundation year course is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to continue onto your Honours degree. You will study a range of subjects that will underpin your future study and also gain valuable experience of university life, with full access to campus facilities.

Successful completion of the year allows you to progress straight onto Level 4 of this course.

In the first year, you will cover the fundamentals of sound, audio electronics, programming, recording and production, and critical listening, along with the mathematics that underpins all these subjects.

In the second year, we want you to dig deep into wider applications of sound engineering in different domains, immersing yourself in the tools and techniques that add depth and variety to your engineer's toolbox. We also want to see your personal vision and persona develop, to the point where you are happy to take on work outside of the university.

By the third year, you will have a huge array of marketable skills under your belt and in this final year, you will learn to apply them in a range of environments. You will also prepare a major project of your own choosing, which will present your talent to the world.  

When you finish our aim is that you are not only a highly talented sound engineer but, through the reading and thinking undertaken, you will be operating at an intellectual level worthy of a University of West London graduate.

During your studies, you will have access to one of the largest audio complexes in Europe, which includes more than 20 studios, as well as teaching rooms, labs and computer suites.

This is one of only eight sound engineering courses in the UK accredited by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) with Full Incorporated Engineering status (IEng).

On this Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, you will develop both as a person and a professional. You will learn to apply your consultancy expertise as you translate problems into innovative solutions. This course aims to take you from the classroom through to securing boardroom impact in an end-to-end process of learning consultancy and scale value. You will leave with a completed portfolio of high-impact projects.

The MBA degree has been designed to give you the leadership skills needed to design and implement innovation and change at the strategic level of major corporations, start-ups or SMEs.  It is project based and is founded on a broad base of management and business thinking that is both strategic and interdisciplinary.  

Your learning will be structured around real-life scenarios, the emphasis being on building your skills and ability to create innovation and influence others.  The MBA is closely modelled on real workplaces and the underlying purpose of the course is to develop you into successful business leaders who can initiate, drive and implement innovation and change within organisations.

This MBA degree offers high impact learning, that is:

• Challenge-based: your assessments will be based on real-world problems and business needs
• Leadership focused: you will gain valuable skills in problem-solving, consultancy and leading change
• Innovation centred: through projects you will learn to create value, impact and sustainable change
• High-impact: you will deepen your knowledge through client-facing consultancy projects
• Inclusive: on this diverse and socially inclusive course you will learn to stimulate new thinking through teamwork.

Do you want to become a professional civil engineer? On our civil engineering degree, you will gain the key analytical, technical and practical skills required for a civil engineer to design complex civil engineering structures, effectively manage/lead construction projects and communicate effectively with other areas of expertise to successfully accomplish large projects.

The expertise of our academic staff, and that of industry partners and relevant professional bodies will feed directly into your degree training.

Civil engineers design, build, supervise and maintain infrastructure projects and systems. These include buildings, roads, airports, tunnels, dams, bridges, waterways, drinking water supply and sewage systems.

You will study a broad discipline in civil engineering that qualifies you to professionally work and provide a better life for many people and protect natural environment. All this is achieved through your abilities, skills and knowledge to conceive, design, build and maintain the infrastructure that our towns and cities rely on.

Are you looking for a photography degree that will help you develop your own individual style behind the camera and put you on a path towards a creative career?

In the Guardian University Guide 2021, the University of West London was ranked top in London for Film Production and Photography.

On our BA (Hons) Photography course you will have the opportunity to learn creative and technical skills from professional photographers, artists, curators and guest lecturers.

Your hands-on work with conceptual and practical briefs will also allow you to build your confidence and your portfolio, and ensure you graduate with sought-after skills.

The foundation year course is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to continue onto your Honours degree. You will study a range of subjects that will underpin your future study and also gain valuable experience of university life, with full access to campus facilities. Successful completion of the year allows you to progress straight onto Level 4 of this course.

Whether you want to kick-start a brand-new career, boost your existing experience, or change career direction, studying MSc Business Analytics enables you to benefit from the latest lecture material on the subject as well as the expertise of direct contacts in the industry who will bridge the gap between academic rigour and practical relevance.

Taught by members of the CLBS academic community who boast extensive boardroom and classroom experience, the course delivers a pastoral approach and unique hands-on learning experience.

As well as opportunities to apply and assimilate your acquired techniques through assessments at regular points in your training, you will have research practices, personal reflection and analysis within the modules.

Your learning and development will be monitored across terms and modules through practical assessments, tutorials and discussion of written observations and feedback.

MA International Fashion Brand Management: Phygital Luxury Fashion is the UK’s first postgraduate digital luxury fashion experience design course. This exciting course is part of our MA International Fashion Brand Management (MA IFBM) suite which offers six innovative degrees:

• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Phygital Luxury Fashion
• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Circular Fashion
• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Fashion Buying & Merchandising
• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Fashion Visual Merchandising
• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Fashion Insight & Strategy
• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Fashion PR & Communication

Brands that have focused on their collections and brand positioning, rather than user experience, have created wholesale, retail and ecommerce channel silos within their companies, which have prevented them from creating seamless customer journeys.

The new disruptive digital environment is causing these brands to rethink their business cases, adapt their brand offerings for consumers and create experiences both online and offline, mixing physical place and digital space: phygital. With the ongoing rise of digital media platforms and channels, luxury brand managers are dealing with fragmented media landscapes.

This course will teach you how to apply the strategies of luxury fashion brands across  platforms, creating immersive, playful, humanised and prototyped digital luxury fashion consumption experiences.

You will learn how to give contemporary luxury fashion customers a more personal and active role through contributing to brand-generated content. You will develop new marketing approaches to meet luxury fashion customers’ expectations, and learn to how to acquire new customers. You will also look at the technologies that allow luxury fashion companies to understand who their real customers are and how to engage with them.

Learn to be strategic as you respond to the modern challenges of policing with MSc in Policing.  

This course provides you with a transformative learning experience that responds to the changing needs of society.

You can study MSc Policing or choose to specialise with the following pathways:

• MSc Policing (International Policing)
• MSc Policing (Leadership and Management)
• MSc Policing (Investigating Serious Crime).

All pathways will challenge you to stretch your strategic and critical thinking, and to gain the knowledge, skills and competencies to create innovative and sophisticated responses.

You will learn to deal with threats such as:

• Cybercrime
• Violence against women and girls
• Terrorism
• Organised crime
• Other emerging risks to public protection.

Globally, Information Technology (IT) skills continue to be in high demand from businesses in many sectors. This IT degree is designed to help you meet the needs of these businesses, so that you can pursue a rewarding career.

The course welcomes students from a variety of academic and occupational backgrounds. It will empower you to fulfil your academic potential and help you gain the industry-specific and interpersonal skills you need to work as an IT professional.

Throughout your studies, we will support you as you learn how to design, develop and construct computer-based solutions to real business problems.

The foundation year course is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to continue onto your Honours degree. You will study a range of subjects that will underpin your future study and also gain valuable experience of university life, with full access to campus facilities. Successful completion of the year allows you to progress straight onto Level 4 of this course. 

Are you interested in fashion, photography and culture? This fashion promotion and imaging course will help you:

• Learn how to visually analyse your favourite images
• Discover and hear from creative professionals that work in and have helped shape the fashion communication industry
• Advance your technical skills in Photography and Image editing and design
• Meet a diverse range of student’s and staff that will inspire you to think outside of the box
• Question the norm and have your ideas supported by educators and industry professionals
• Acquire professional skills that will allow you to adapt to a variety of roles within the industry
• Explore styling as a professional skill and create your own vision
• Refine promotional skills in writing and communication that will increase your employability and introduce you to the fast pace nature of the Fashion Industry
• Learn how to critique and see the world as a designer/communication strategist.
• Be challenged, have a lot of fun!