Media and Drama

Media and drama is a combination that explores two disciplines concerned with how stories are told, what audiences make of them, and what cultural and social functions they serve. Media studies examines the production, distribution, and consumption of content across film, television, radio, digital platforms, and print, developing your critical understanding of how media industries work and how media texts construct meaning. Drama studies engages with theatre and performance as artistic practices, exploring how plays are written, directed, and performed, and how theatrical traditions have evolved across different historical and cultural contexts.

At Bangor University, the BA Media and Drama is a three-year full-time programme that includes a foundation year, a sandwich year, a year abroad, and work placement opportunities.

The media strand develops your analytical and critical skills in engaging with media texts and institutions, alongside practical production skills that may include filmmaking, broadcasting, or digital content creation depending on the focus you develop. The drama strand combines the study of dramatic literature and theatre history with practical engagement with performance, directing, and production work. Together, the two disciplines develop a versatile creative and analytical practitioner who understands both the theoretical dimensions of storytelling and media and the practical realities of production and performance.

The year abroad and the professional experience available through the sandwich year add international and industry perspectives that strengthen both your practical development and your employment prospects.

Graduates of media and drama programmes work across the creative industries in a wide range of roles. Television and film production, journalism, radio, digital content, theatre management and production, arts administration, teaching, and community arts work are among the most common career paths. The analytical skills developed in both subjects are also applicable in communications, public relations, marketing, and public sector roles connected to the arts and culture.

Some graduates go on to postgraduate study in film, media studies, drama, or creative writing, or pursue professional training in specific areas of performance or production. The combination of critical understanding and practical experience that Bangor's degree structure provides is well suited to the creative industries, where both conceptual depth and professional competence are required.