​Welcome to Canterbury Christ Church University and thank you for choosing to study Media Production with us. I am a senior lecturer on the Media Production course and along with the rest of the team, I am looking forward to meeting you during Welcome Week.

Jo Samuel
Course Director

Your Teaching Timetable

Teaching for your course will begin w.c 21 September 2026.

To help you plan your first few weeks, you can view an overview of the teaching activities for your course.

View your first semester teaching timetable.

On a mobile device, click the arrow next to “Search” at the top right of the page to view your timetable.

If your course is taught in groups, the overview will show activities for all groups. You will only need to attend sessions for your allocated group.

Once teaching begins, your individual timetable and group allocation will be available in MyTimetable provided you have completed online registration and created your computing account.

Your Semester 1 Modules

Creative Arts and Industries

The Big Picture*

*All Foundation Year students take The Big Picture during Semester 1. The module includes shared lectures and smaller seminar and pastoral groups.

Seminar groups are arranged broadly by subject area so that discussions, examples, and activities can connect to your intended degree course.

The Unitimetables page shows an overview of all scheduled teaching for the module. You will not be expected to attend every seminar shown there.

Your confirmed lecture, seminar, and pastoral group will be available in MyTimetable once course registration and group allocations have been completed.

Key dates

Academic Calendar: Semesters

View key dates for this Academic Calendar for 2026-27 including when teaching starts and finishes and when you break for holidays.

Welcome

​We understand that starting University is an exciting time, but can also be quite an anxious time, and that you may have lots of questions.

This is why we have designed an informative and fun welcome week that will provide you with all the key information that you need to know about your studies, the University and the support available.

It is also when you will get to meet your fellow students and key teaching staff.

Getting started

Your Course​​

In Semester 1, you will be taking two modules.

The Big Picture module, which is led by Simon Prince, helps you find your place in university and the wider world.

Through lectures, seminars, and guided online learning, you’ll see how university differs from school and workplace training, and how your subject and other ones, too, connect to real issues. 

The aim is disciplined curiosity and growing confidence across university disciplines. Lectures are delivered each teaching week to create an event‑style experience for you. Seminars run in subject clusters. The ones after the lectures link the talk to your discipline and move on to your assessment preparation. The one-hour seminar is a chance to reflect and seek support as well as work on the assessment.

​The Creative Arts and Industries module, led by Emma Graves - Sandriman, is your second module.

In the first few weeks of this module, you will be introduced to different areas of the creative arts industries and relevant key concepts. Each week, you will take a workshop that focuses on a different area of creative arts, as well as a workshop that is targeted towards your subject area.

​Teaching on this module will consist of a mixture of interactive lectures, practical workshops and group/1-1 tutorials with the tutors. You will start the day off with a lecture amongst students from courses across the creative arts subjects where you will learn about the creative arts industries and key concepts within them, get to know staff in the area and hear guest employability talks.

After the lecture, you will move into smaller groups for workshops exploring theoretical and practical perspectives related to your own discipline as well as wider creative arts areas. Once you have built up your skills, later workshops will involve you working on a collaborative media project with students from different creative arts courses.

Blackboard

​Each module will have its own module blackboard, which is our online learning space. Here you will find information on all your modules including learning resources such as online videos, lectures, reading lists and module handbooks.

​To help you prepare for your studies, once you are fully registered and have access to the module blackboards, it is recommended that you take some time to read through the module handbooks and familiarise yourself with your timetable.

Your Must Do Tasks

Once you have been invited to register for your course, there are some key tasks you'll need to complete to make sure you are ready to become a CCCU student. 

Registration invitations are sent towards the end of August. We'll send yours to the email address you used when you applied, so please check this inbox regularly to make sure you don't miss any important information.

Pre-course reading

​​Reading and resource lists will be available on the module blackboard, but if you would like to get a head start, you could read Sigthorsson and Davies (2013) Introducing the creative industries: from theory to practice.

​Creative online blogs and journals are a great way to keep up to date with latest trends and current creative news. If you have time, browse through some of the following online magazines:

International student success programme

International students: don't miss out! Make sure you register for our international student success programme which provides practical advice on preparing to live and study in the UK.

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