Industry Placement and written submission: digital media (823P4)

60 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

All year

The digital media work placement is a student-led placement developed in close consultation with the course convener. The work placement is assessed by a portfolio and essay. Supported through dissertation workshops, tutorials, work in progress demonstrations, portfolio development and independent work, you’ll critically reflect on the role of digital media in the workplace.

In order to find a work placement, you’ll consult:

• the Linked in digital media alumni group
• Wired Sussex
• the enterprise and careers office (e.g. Enterprise Thursdays)
• Lighthouse
• the school of MFM.

From the Summer term onwards you take up the placement and keep a work diary and samples of your work for submission. You’ll:

• research the literature on working in the digital media industries and culture industries more generally.
• decide on the direction for your critical essay – this is not a review of your experience but will interrogate one dimension of the work place.
• research the academic literature that connects with your essay topic and use the workplace as your case study.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 600 hours of work. This breaks down into about 17 hours of contact time and about 583 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.