Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Media and Communications

at University of West London United Kingdom

Prepare for a rewarding career in international business with this hands-on course accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

This international business management degree is designed to give you real-world knowledge of the contemporary business landscape. You will learn essential business functions within an international context and how culture influences international management.

Our teaching is informed by current research and global practices, while our highly qualified, experienced staff will support your personal and professional development.

We maintain links with major professional institutes, including the CMI, to ensure the course remains current and to open up potential opportunities for students.

The foundation year course is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to continue onto your Honours degree. You will study a range of subjects that will underpin your future study and also gain valuable experience of university life, with full access to campus facilities. Successful completion of the year allows you to progress straight onto Level 4 of this course.

Today’s international food landscape is rapidly developing. Our relationship with producing, selling and consuming food evolves as consumer and environmental demands change the marketplace.

Are you ready to be competitive in this developing industry? Whether you want to run your own restaurant, develop food products, become a chef or run your own business, studying on the BSc Future Food and Culinary Management degree will prepare you as a service-focused professional with a sustainable mindset, ready for the technological and environmental changes of the future.

from the Covid crisis and examine solutions from a sector perspective. Our course content is developed with support from a wide network of sector professionals to include changes in the industry.

The Covid pandemic is creating challenges for the industry but is also driving innovation and change across the sector. Join this career-focused course and graduate in a strong position to be a part of the industry’s transformation.

This course will provide you with an opportunity to develop your perspective on business and digital marketing that will enhance and expand your future careers.

The course is delivered in a series of cycles integrating theory, skills and practical elements. Each cycle will introduce you to important foundational frameworks and will help you to put theory into practice across a range of real-world scenarios and contexts.

The course content reflects the latest professional insights and academic research on business and digital marketing. To meet your personal development and employability needs, a substantial number of completely new modules have been developed which are aligned to current theory, skills and practice demands.

By the end of your studies, you would also have gained knowledge of consulting on digital-marketing and business issues in a real-world context.

Studying the BSc (Hons) Aviation Management with Commercial Pilot Training course will prepare you to enter the industry as a First Officer who is a competent, confident and well-informed member of the flight crew. As well as gaining the technical expertise required for this role, you will also have management skills relevant to the dynamic aviation industry.

We work with a number of Approved Training Organisations (ATOs) and our exciting new course will allow you to combine your Integrated/MPL training with academic studies over two years.

On graduation, you will have both an BSc (Hons) degree and an fATPL. This balance of practical and theoretical skills is highly sought-after by global aviation industry employers.

Our courses offer opportunities to discuss issues arising from the Covid crisis and examine solutions from a sector perspective. Our course content is developed with support from a wide network of sector professionals to include changes in the industry and we are proud to involve experts from Heathrow in our guest lectures and workshops to directly connect you to the industry.

Concert Music aims to develop an advanced knowledge of compositional techniques from the 16th to 20th/21st century. Informed by current ideas on the academic study and practical application of composition, your course will be taught by established industry professionals and academics.

We aim to equip you with skills to help you succeed in the fast-paced and ever-changing music industry. You will embrace a range of styles and produce original creative work, as well as completing an assessed rehearsal in which you conduct a vocal ensemble.

Are you interested in a career in the music industry? The BMus (Hons) Performance and Music Management is the perfect course if you want to take control of managing your career while gaining enough studio knowledge to perform basic recordings. As such, this degree has a heavy focus on learning how the industry works and how you can empower yourself as pragmatic, well informed creative business entrepreneurs. The degree recognises that modern performing artists are no longer just performing artists. They require a solid – industry focussed – managerial foundation, a high level of performing ability, a knowledge of musical concepts, and a strong creative drive.

The degree establishes how and why the music business operates and builds on this knowledge with a strong focus on new and creative marketing concepts. This management foundation pairs with a comprehensive performance course designed to foster new modes of content creation and live music performance skills. The course celebrates the following attributes necessary to thrive in the current performing and recording environment:

• The exploration of management, and industry knowledge as both an artform, and an employable skill;
• and the evaluation of musical practice in the context of history, culture and the contemporary marketplace;
• The acquisition of musical technique;
• The understanding that musical acts are accomplished content creators and experienced music industry figures;
• The recognition that artists curate unique careers, and they require the business skills to design their own future.
• The course’s philosophy takes a strategic approach focussed on investigation, evaluation, and creation. At Level 4, you will begin with a range of subjects designed to develop early knowledge of core management and legal concepts as well as performance, and introductory recording skills.

On this Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, you will develop both as a person and a professional. You will learn to apply your consultancy expertise as you translate problems into innovative solutions. This course aims to take you from the classroom through to securing boardroom impact in an end-to-end process of learning consultancy and scale value. You will leave with a completed portfolio of high-impact projects.

The MBA degree has been designed to give you the leadership skills needed to design and implement innovation and change at the strategic level of major corporations, start-ups or SMEs.  It is project based and is founded on a broad base of management and business thinking that is both strategic and interdisciplinary.  

Your learning will be structured around real-life scenarios, the emphasis being on building your skills and ability to create innovation and influence others.  The MBA is closely modelled on real workplaces and the underlying purpose of the course is to develop you into successful business leaders who can initiate, drive and implement innovation and change within organisations.

This MBA degree offers high impact learning, that is:

• Challenge-based: your assessments will be based on real-world problems and business needs
• Leadership focused: you will gain valuable skills in problem-solving, consultancy and leading change
• Innovation centred: through projects you will learn to create value, impact and sustainable change
• High-impact: you will deepen your knowledge through client-facing consultancy projects
• Inclusive: on this diverse and socially inclusive course you will learn to stimulate new thinking through teamwork.

Our civil and environmental engineering degree will develop your technical skills alongside your knowledge of contemporary issues. The course is professionally accredited and informed by the expertise of leading industry consultants and businesses.

You will gain a full understanding of the key civil and environmental engineering disciplines, including structures, water engineering, highway engineering and geotechnics.

At the end of the course, you will complete a work-based project to gain experience in applying your knowledge in a professional environment.

This bioinformatics Masters bridges the interfaces between genomics, computing and healthcare and aims to equip you with the skills to analyse, interpret and use biological data to inform and improve healthcare and health outcomes.

You will consider biological data generated by technologies such as genome and next-generation sequencing and microarray expression technology. You will also learn how the results of analysis can be applied to improve health outcomes.

Throughout your studies you will be encouraged to reflect on the ethical, legal and social implications of using genomics data.

Are you interested in a career as a solicitor? We are now offering the LPC as part of a Masters’ degree – the LLM Legal Practice course. This incorporates both stages 1 and 2 of the LPC – the professional qualification you will need to become a solicitor.

You will have opportunities to meet and network with local solicitors and trainees through our close connections with the Middlesex Law Society and our LPC graduates who are now in practice. You will also have opportunities to apply for a range of legal work experience opportunities and to take part in the Law School's free legal advice clinic, run jointly with Ealing Equality Council.

We are accredited by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and receive excellent feedback from our students, so you can feel confident in the quality and standards of our course.