🎙️Media Studies
A Level
£68.00
📍COURSE CODE: A680
📂 SYLLABUS: Eduqas (WJEC)
🏆 GRADING: A Level A*–E
👩🏻🏫 DELIVERY: Live, interactive, online classes
⏰ FREQUENCY: Weekly 1.5-hour sessions
⏳ DURATION: 57 weeks
🗓️ START DATE: September 2025
🎓 SUITABLE FOR: Students aged 16+
'The media doesn’t just reflect the world—it shapes it.'
🗂️ WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?
Media influences how we see ourselves, each other, and the wider world. In an era of 24-hour news, TikTok trends, and online activism, understanding the media is not just valuable—it’s essential.
This A Level course helps students analyse how media messages are constructed and received. They’ll explore who controls media industries, how audiences respond, and how culture, politics, and technology shape the media landscape. Students also engage in practical production work—developing skills in planning, creating, and evaluating cross-media products.
Whether you're interested in journalism, advertising, film, or digital content creation, media studies builds the critical awareness and creative confidence to thrive in a media-saturated world.
🗂️ WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?
In our small, live, online group sessions, students explore six key areas of study:
🎞️ Media Language – How meaning is constructed through technical and symbolic codes
🧍♀️ Representation – How people, places and issues are portrayed, and the impact of these portrayals
🏢 Media Industries – Ownership, production processes, funding, and regulation
🧑🤝🧑 Audiences – How media engages and influences diverse audience groups
🌍 Contexts – Historical, political, economic, cultural and social influences
🎬 Cross-Media Production – Planning and creating media products in response to a brief
Students will also develop critical thinking, independent research, media literacy, and practical production skills that extend far beyond the classroom.
👤 WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
Students aged 16+ with an interest in media, culture, communication or current affairs
Home-educated learners who prefer small, interactive, discussion-led classes
Students who enjoy a mix of academic analysis and hands-on creativity
Neurodivergent, anxious, or sensitive students who thrive in a kind, well-structured setting
No prior media studies experience required, just a curious, critical mind
Academic Benefits
Supports English, Sociology, Film Studies, and Art
Combines theory and creative practice—ideal for balanced learners
Builds analytical and evaluative skills required at university level
Relevant for further study and careers in journalism, content creation, marketing, and the creative industries
Life Benefits
Sharpens critical media literacy—essential in an age of misinformation
Builds confidence in communication, design, and digital storytelling
Prepares students to navigate and influence a rapidly changing media landscape
👩🏻🎓 HOW IS THE COURSE DELIVERED?
✅ Weekly live, interactive lessons
✅ Small group size for individual attention
✅ Weekly differentiated independent learning assignments
✅ Personalised feedback and targets for improvement
✅ Ongoing progress tracking
✅ Structured guidance on assessments
✅ Revision aids and access to online learning platforms
✅ Full student dashboard with detailed notes and resources
✅ Two marked mock exam papers in the final term
⭐️ NOTE: NEA tutorials, marking, authentication and moderation are included in the course fee.
🧐 HOW IS THE COURSE ASSESSED?
This is a linear qualification with two written exams and one coursework component:
📘 Component 1: Media Products, Industries & Audiences – 35%
📝 2 hours 15 mins – 60 marks
• Close study of set texts
• Media language, representation, industries and audiences
📗 Component 2: Media Forms & Products in Depth – 35%
📝 2 hours 30 mins – 45 marks
• Television, magazines, and online media
• Focus on contexts, narrative, genre and theory
📷 Component 3: NEA – Cross Media Production – 30%
📝 Coursework project (submitted by February half term) – 50 marks
• Production in two linked media forms in response to a brief
• Includes planning, creating, and evaluating your own media product
A Level Media Studies empowers students to decode, question, and create media with confidence—essential skills in today’s fast-moving world.