You are surrounded by the media every day of your lives. The media - from magazines and newspapers, through films, radio and television, to computer games and the internet - fill your waking hours and bombard you with messages and images that shape the way you see and understand the world you live in.

We aim to help you find your way through the sometimes confusing, often entertaining, occasionally dangerous world of the media by:

• helping you to make sense of the media in all its many forms
• enabling you to gain experience of media forms and genres you might not have seen before
• giving you chances to work on realistic media industry projects
• tapping into your creativity and using it to produce media texts of your own
• teaching you how to understand the technical processes involved in making media texts

Whether you fancy yourself as the next Steven Spielberg or simply want to know why James Bond always saves the world, we will set you on the path to both exam success and a lifetime of enjoyment of the media.