This completion award has been developed to enable you to 'top-up' your qualification and gain full UK undergraduate degree status in just one year taught by teaching staff who are experts in their fields of business and media. Mass communication not only represents major aspects of our everyday lives in terms of leisure and working practices, but it also constitutes a key part of twenty-first century industry, both nationally and globally ranging from advertising and the internet to digital technologies. BA (Hons) Mass Communication is designed to enable you to combine the subjects of mass communication, advertising, business management and marketing strategy, to understand the principles of creative media industries, and the major social and cultural forces that affect them in the contemporary world. This one year completion award enables you to engage with a range of stimulating and contemporary debates that explore the influence that mass communication industries have on a global level, and how we relate to them. You will study core modules that examine the impact of digital technologies such as video games, social networks and convergent mobile technology, business journalism and its techniques, advertising, and key mass communication approaches and institutions.