Digital Media & Information Studies/French
Digital media and information studies sits at the point where technology, culture and society intersect, examining how digital content is created, distributed, used and made meaningful by people and institutions. It brings a distinctly human perspective to the questions of the digital age: how does information shape what we know and believe, how do platforms influence public discourse, and what does it mean to participate in digital culture as a creator, a consumer or a citizen? French, paired with this, opens a different kind of understanding, both linguistic and cultural, connecting you to one of the world's great intellectual and artistic traditions and to the contemporary French-speaking world across Europe, Africa and beyond.
At the University of Glasgow, this five-year full-time programme includes a sandwich placement year and a work placement, integrating professional experience directly into your degree. Digital Media and Information Studies develops your critical and analytical understanding of digital content and information in the arts, humanities and society, examining issues of access, representation, data, media production and digital culture. French modules develop your language skills from your current level through to advanced proficiency, alongside cultural, literary and historical study of France and the Francophone world.
The combination equips you to engage with digital media questions in an international context and to communicate in French at a professional level.
Graduates from this programme find employment in digital communications, media production, information management, journalism, publishing, cultural organisations, libraries, the technology sector and international business. The French language component opens doors in European and international organisations, the diplomatic service, translation and roles where cross-cultural communication is an asset. Further study in digital humanities, media studies, library and information science, French studies or communications is a natural next step for those who want to deepen a specialism.