Television

BA (Hons) Full time

Course Overview

UCAS code: P301
Duration: 2 years
Study type: Full Time
Napier code: 54115BH

If you have an HND in Creative Industries, Television or equivalent, this unique two year course allows you to progress to an honours degree. It is aimed at students who are interested in a practice-led curriculum, allowing you to build on and extend your existing skills and knowledge and focus on the television and screen media industries of the future. With links to industry in Scotland and beyond, this course reflects the dynamic and converging worlds of broadcast television, film, journalism and new media, and provides a distinctive, high quality and dynamic undergraduate experience. It strikes a balance between gaining professional level technical production skills.

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With a well established reputation as a centre for excellence in screen practice-led courses, The School of Arts and Creative Industries offers this innovative Bachelors in Television. In partnership with Edinburgh College of Art, this course has been accredited as a Skillset Screen and Media Academy one.

With links to industry in Scotland and beyond, this course reflects the dynamic and converging worlds of broadcast television, film, journalism and new media. This includes our key industry partner, STV, who offer student mentorship and work placement opportunities, as well as master classes, guest speakers and an end-of-year showcasing of students' creative projects.

As a student of this course, you will also have the chance to compete for a limited number of internship placements at STV, offering an invaluable opportunity to gain hands on experience in television and online production and get a head start in your career.

If you have already gained an 'HND: Creative Industries, Television' (or equivalent) this leads a pathway to progress to an honours degree for students who are interested in a practice-led course, motivated to build on and extend the skills and the knowledge gained at FE college and focused on the television and screen media industries of the future.

Keeping students' needs in mind, this course strikes balances between:

  • gaining professional level technical production skills
  • developing creative practice through teamwork - and individual project work, and
  • following academic studies which seek to analyse and investigate the complex and rapid contemporary changes in the creative media industries.

The BA Television course is structured so that students' individual qualities and interests are identified and developed. There are very close links with industry and with a range of practitioners involved in all aspects of television production. The teaching staff all have direct personal experience working in the industry.

You will graduate with technical skills in television production and research with an understanding of pre-production planning and scripting, filming on location and in the studio, video camerawork, post-production editing and sound recording. You will learn to plan and manage the creative, organisational and financial aspects of your projects. You'll develop professional communication skills, including presentation, and the ability to analyse your work critically at all stages of its creation.

Professionally accredited by:

This course has been awarded the Creative Skillset Tick, the industry kitemark of quality, following a rigorous assessment process by experts working in the Creative Industries. The Creative Skillset Tick is awarded to practice-based courses which best prepare students for a career in the industry.

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For more information see the Screen Academy Scotland website.

What's it like?

Practice-led and industry focused - this course prepares students for working in the television broadcasting of the future

Career prospects

We are one of the top universities in Scotland for graduate employability, with over 93% of our graduates in jobs or further study six months after graduating.

As a graduate, you'll be prepared for a position in the highly competitive creative and media sector. Often freelance in nature.

  • television researcher
  • television assistant producer
  • television director
  • new media producer
  • community project worker

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What's involved

Modular learning

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Developing our students, both professionally and personally, is at the heart of all learning at Edinburgh Napier and is embedded in our approach to Learning, Teaching and Assessment. We put the employability of our graduates at the core of everything we do and we are regarded as one of the Top 10 Universities in the UK for graduate employability.

We are proud to be investing £100m to provide some of the very best teaching and learning facilities and there are plans for a new student union in 2012/13.


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Requirements at a glance

Entry to the course

International students

Full-time study (per year)

The fees listed are stated per annum.

Part-time study (per year)

The fees listed are stated per annum.

Part-time study

The number of modules studied is dependant on the exit that you wish to achieve, for example:

  • A Grad Cert is 60 Credits (3 modules)
  • A Cert HE/Grad Dip/ HND is 120 credits (6 modules)
  • A Dip HE credit is 240 credits (12 modules)
  • A Degree is 360 credits (18 modules)
  • An Honours Degree is 480 credits

Please note that some part-time courses give modular exemptions for previous study and vocational experience. Advice is available during application.

Part-time study (per module)

  • A Postgraduate Certificate is 60 credits (3 modules)
  • A Postgraduate Diploma is 120 credits (6 modules)
  • MBA is 180 credits

Fees Table

Fees displayed are correct at the time of publication but the University Court reserves the right to make changes in fees at any time, and without notice, before or after the student's admission to the University.

Tuition fees are reviewed annually and will rise each year during your programme of study, at least in line with inflation.

Funding your study

We have lots of funding options available such as the postgraduate tuition fee loan for Scottish & EU students, specific scholarships for students from India and Africa, as well as bursaries & grants for those closer to home in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. Visit our funding pages to find out what you could be eligible for.

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