University of Sunderland

Radio (1 Year Top-Up)

* Exceptions may apply.  Please see Fees and Finance for further information.

Introduction

This programme allows students who have previously studied radio at Foundation Degree or HND level to increase their qualification to that of a full undergraduate degree.

Students will be able study specialist areas of radio/audio production and develop one of those genres of forms into a major piece of production work in drama, documentary, live broadcasting or audio based Internet content.

To go to the Radio section of the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media website click here

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Course Content

Core Modules:

• Media Studies 2
• A Practical Project in Radio

Plus Option Modules in:

• Live Radio Broadcasting
• Radio Drama
• Radio Documentary and Feature Production
• Web Radio
• Radio and Gender
• Radio Journalism

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Entry Requirements

Students will be expected to have successfully completed an appropriate qualification in radio production, radio broadcasting or a related subject.

HND students should have gained at least 50% merits or distinctions at Level 2.

Each application will be considered by an Admissions Tutor to ensure that students have the right mix of skills required. Some students may be asked to study additional modules to assist this process.

Applications are welcomed from mature students and will be considered on a case by case basis. For more information Tel: Helpline (0191) 515 3000.

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Fees and Finance

The fees for this course are as specified in the table at the top of the page.

Please note that different fees apply to students studying for "Equivalent or Lower Qualifications" (ELQs). For more information about ELQs, please see the page Information for applicants who already have an HE Qualification.

For information about University scholarships and bursaries please see the page Fees and Finance.

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Teaching and Assessment

A range of teaching methods are used from lectures and workshops to one-to-one tutorials and online learning.

Students will be allocated a supervisor for the Practical Project and will be expected to meet them on a regular basis to discuss progress.

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Work Experience

There are no formal placements on this programme but students are encouraged to seek work experience in their own time and staff will provide support for this where they can. Students may also wish to become involved in 107 Spark FM.Spark is our own 24/7 award winning community radio station. It is the largest university based station in the UK. Working here you can gain real-life work experience in our radio studios and be heard across Sunderland on FM and worldwide on the internet. Students run Spark FM themselves with tutor support, and they are responsible for all news-gathering, programme production and advertising. 

The University already holds a Community Radio Licence and students on the course will be able to engage with the operation of the station at some point. We also have links to other Community, Commercial and BBC stations in the region and beyond. We are members of the Community Media Association and the RadioCentre.

Our resources and our teaching both reflect real world practices and challenges and professional standards are applied to the programmes made as part of course assessment.

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Career Opportunities

Students have graduated from the University of Sunderland in radio and are now working in the BBC as Producers, Presenters, Studio Managers and Broadcast Assistants; in Commercial Radio as Presenters, Journalists, News Editors, Commercial Writers and Commercial Producers

We also have graduates working for and running production companies making commercials and jingles for clients around the world!

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Facilities

*World Class Web/Design Tools*
The University of Sunderland has made a significant investment in providing students with access to the latest releases of Adobe products.

Selected PCs within the St Peter's and Murray Libraries have been pre-loaded with the Creative Suite 4 (CS4) Adobe Design Premium Suite for your exclusive use.

CS4 Creative includes key products such as Indesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver as well as Photoshop and a range of many others.

Further information is available from:

http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/creativesuite/design/
For information regarding locations of PC or Macs within your own faculty that have access to Adobe products please contact your Faculty IT Support.

If you are interested in purchasing Adobe products for your own PC/Mac Adobe offer significant savings for student purchases via any of its approved re-sellers.

Please visit:

http://www.student-software.co.uk/

The course is based within the University’s David Puttnam Media Centre, a purpose built production and teaching centre with modern, professionally designed and constructed radio studios, production spaces and digital field recorders.

This includes 3 self-operating studios with Myriad playout, a radio drama studio, 2 news/editing booths with plans to build further studios to host the full-time radio station.

Students are able to save work on a central server and edit and dub audio in our open access production room.

Recording equipment includes HHB Flash-Mics, Marantz flash recorders and high quality mini-disc recording kits.

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Related Courses

• Media Production (Television and Radio)

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