Coventry University Department of Media and Communication
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| Type | Media school, Film school, Journalism school |
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| Established | 1975, relocated 2000/1 |
| Location | Coventry, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom |
| Affiliations | Coventry University, Coventry School of Art and Design |
| Website | [1] |
The Department of Media (formerly known as the Department of Media and Communication) is part of Coventry School of Art and Design in Coventry University. It is located within the Ellen Terry Building, which is a £7 million refurbished 1930s cinema in the centre of Coventry, UK.
Its courses include undergraduate degrees in Digital Media, Journalism and Media, Media Production, Photography, Advertising and Media and Media and Communications (Formerly Communication, Culture and Media). It has masters level degrees in Applied Communication, Automotive Journalism, Film and Visual Cultures, Global Journalism, Global Media and Communications, Health Journalism, Digital Media and Culture and Media Production .
The department has a long established research culture in the fields of Media and Communication contributing to debates at local, national and international level. This includes major projects funded by Jisc, the AHRC, HEFCE as well as a number of industry and charitable partners. The department goes back to 1975, when It was among the first places to launch a degree in Communications studies in the UK.
In 2006 it launched a weekly industry talk series called the Coventry Conversations whose long list of speakers includes Jeremy Paxman, Murray Walker, Donal Macintyre, Jeff Jarvis, Paul Abbott, Jeremy Vine, Baroness Valerie Amos and many more.Jon Snow, of Channel 4 News, is a visiting professor in the department. The department also has talk series in Open Media and Photography
The department is underpinned by its "Open Media" approach to education in the fields of Media, Culture, Communication, Photography and the Visual Arts. This approach emerges from the issues, new working practices and substantial changes that have been brought about by development in digital culture and communications technologies over the past decade. As a result of this approach, it was the first practical media department in the UK to start broadcasting lectures to the iTunes U platform and onto the YouTube Edu platform in 2009 and has innovated in teaching learning through open technologies and pedagogies including the development of the world's first open iPhone application for a photography degree course as well as various other projects in Open Education in Photography and Creative Activism for which it has won international recognition.
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