The course will allow you to explore a range of Media Products, including television, advertising, magazines, newspapers, video games, music videos, websites and social media. You will learn how to analyse these products in order to understand how they appeal to particular audiences, and how they might influence, or be influenced by, those audiences. You will also explore how a range of Media Industries operate - their ownership, structure and influence on the products they create. In Year 13 you will complete an NEA production, which features a changing set of briefs each year. You will learn and develop practical production skills such as cinematography, photography and editing. There is usually a wide range of options in the briefs and so you will have a lot of choice in what you create. Overall, students love that the subject is relevant, up to date and something that they see in practice every single day. It allows you to look at the world in a new way and appreciate how we communicate and shape our ideas about the world
Paper 1
Philosophy: Arguments for the Existence of God, Evil and Suffering, Religious Experience (Yr12) Religious Language, Miracles, Self and Life after Death (Yr13)
Ethics: Normative Ethics; Natural Moral Law, Situation Ethics; Virtue Ethics (Y12) Application of Ethical Theories: theft, lying, human life and death, Meta Ethics (Y13)
Paper 2
Christianity: Sources of Wisdom and Authority; God, Self, Death and the Afterlife, Good conduct and key moral principles; expressions of religious identity; Christianity, gender and sexuality; Christianity and science; Christianity and the challenge of secularisation; Christianity, migration and religious pluralism. Dialogue between Philosophy/ Ethics and Christianity