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Media Studies

The vision of the Media Studies Curriculum at Ortu Hassenbrook Academy is to prepare students for the life and challenges of modern society and to help them become active participators and creators of the society of tomorrow.

The media studies curriculum aims to develop students into critical thinkers - to foster in them the ability to analyse, critique, evaluate, surmise, and deconstruct the world around them, and to provide an understanding of the media’s power to shape both society - its attitudes and values – as well as our own identities. 

The Media Studies department aspires to instil in students the capacity to take responsibility for their own choices through conscious consumption of, and engagement with, the media, and to develop an understanding of the effect of those choices, and their own identity within the current media landscape and existing hegemonies.

We also aim to help students develop creative skills so they are able to consciously employ or manipulate the codes and conventions of various media forms, platforms, and genres to construct original media products, and to prepare them for any further study of, or career aspirations in, the media industry.

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