Year 1: Understanding communication; options chosen from: Media, technology and social change; communicating identity; digital graphics and visual culture; introduction to information and communication technology; web page production; media and gender; media lab. Year 2: Public communication; working in the cultural industries; options chosen from: communication studies, research methods; creative writing; journalism and print media; understanding the newspaper industry; electronic publishing. Year 3: Communication project; communication and the public sphere: culture, technology and politics; options chosen from: international communication: the political economy of mass media; public relations and promotion; exploring working-class culture; news reporting; magazine media; television and the cultural change; digital video production; and urban film.