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>> LECTURER 1: A top-up degree is the final year of an undergraduate degree programme.
It’s a one year course where students start on that course having already successfully
completed two years study at another institution or, indeed, our own institution or one of
our partner colleges. So, for example, we have one called Global Media Practice, which
is a one year course which is looking at working collaboratively across the global media market,
producing cross-platform projects.
>> STUDENT 1: The Media School is one of the best in the country. The lecturers are fantastic,
so supportive. Honestly, I can’t say enough about them, they really are top notch.
>> STUDENT 2: I asked a couple of people living in England and they said that the Media School
is really reputed in Bournemouth and I applied to various other universities but then Bournemouth
became my first preference.
>> LECTURER 1: To come onto the programme, students have to have done two years of study
elsewhere in a media discipline and then they come on one of our top-up programmes and they
graduate with a full BA.
>> [students learning to use equipment] There we are, look, you tilt there and there. That
slides in like this.
>> [disaster simulation interview] As we were filing down to get onto the pitch, you know,
people were helping each other. >> So you felt that there was a kind of a big police
presence? >> Seemed to be, you know, a lot of police around. I don’t understand how
it could have happened.
>> STUDENT 2: You get to learn loads in the process of working with different people of
different temperaments and you get to be a bit more patient with people. You get to learn
lots about film making and how to deal with different kinds of people.
>> STUDENT 1: A big part of the course is going on placements, in either local, national
or even international agencies or organisations, if that’s what you want to do.
>> STUDENT 2: I’ve got to learn how to be professional in the media industry, being
in Bournemouth University, how we, basically, when we enter the industry, how we would react
to certain things and that’s what we kind of learn here.
[students producing radio]
>> STUDENT 3: We’ve done a lot of television work, radio work, web work. Website work is
really really exciting. We’ve done online papers, we know ho to make web videos, we
know how to put the audio out there, we know how to put ourselves out there; make contact,
meet people, so it’s all really exciting, really really exciting. It’s been a fantastic
course.
>> STUDENT 2: I would really encourage somebody to come to Bournemouth university and have
the experience.