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Helderberg College of Higher Education

Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Media Studies

The Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Media Studies in Communication and Media is offered by Helderberg College of Higher Education.

Program Length: 3 YEARS.

Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Media Studies offered by the Helderberg College of Higher Education at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Education

This popular degree will make you ready for the corporate and media space by giving you the specific skills and relevant competencies you will need out there. You will be taught hard core skills such as website design, information management and event planning. Knock them dead with the invaluable experience you have gained in multiple small-group discussions and presentations – which you don’t get to do in large public institutions!

Programme Purpose

• To help you understand the dynamic and ever-changing media landscape, both locally and internationally
• To teach you to create copy for print, radio and television, as well as produce your own programmes
• To give you advanced photography skills, including drone photography and animation
• To develop audio-visual skills such as television and radio presentation and social media blogging
• To develop in you a critical and ethical stance towards all media content and equip you with a unique set of values which will set you apart in the media space

Qualification Outcomes

You will walk away with the following competencies:

• The skill to research, plan and produce a television or radio programme
• The expertise to compile a newsletter or magazine professionally
• The ability to research media topics effectively and produce reports in the correct format
• Voice-production techniques for presenting in public, on radio and television
•  Vlogging skills (mobile video production)
• The competence to set up a digital radio station
• The confidence to become a free-lance journalist or blogger
• Advanced photographic skills

Career Opportunities

With a BA degree in Communication, these are just some of the jobs you will be able to do:

• Radio / Television Producer
• Journalist
• Screenwriter
• Photographer
• Photo-journalist
• Media Planner / Buyer
• Client Manager
• Audio-visual Media Practitioner
• Radio and / or Television Presenter
• Social Media Specialist and / or Blogger

Further Studies

Once you have completed your BA Communication degree, you will be able to continue onto an Honours, Master’s or Doctoral degree in Communication at many universities in South Africa, and world-wide. Take note that you may need to study further to enter certain career paths. For example, you may have to do specialist modules such as advertising design, sound-engineering, editing, drone photography or animation.