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Offer holders welcome

Congratulations on being made an offer to study in ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú’s School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication. 

We are a big believer in lifelong education and for over 200 years, ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú has been widening access to education to people from all walks of life. That’s why learning at ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú begins even before your course’s official start date, with invitations to events, opportunities to directly contact your admissions tutor, and resources to give you an insight into how the School will support you.

SCHOOL EVENTS AND WIDER RESOURCES

If you've received your offer to study with us, we will invite you to dedicated offer holder events, including bespoke webinars and taster lectures for some courses. Please sign up to get a taste of what’s going to come in your course.

You are very welcome to come to all our public-facing events, including lectures, exhibitions, openings, and seminars. Feel free to bookmark and view the school's events calendarÌý´Ç°ù view events across the entire Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

You can also find out about how the school will , how the facilities of ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú’s Creative Practice Lab brings together knowledge across creative arts and design industries, and how our research projects inform how you will be taught.

In addition, ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú’s Offer Holder Hub gives you general university-wide resources, including information about , a free summer programme for all new undergraduate students at ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú. 

Campus Tour

You can do a , or watch the following YouTube video. Our offer holder events may sometimes include an in-person campus tour as well.

Accommodation

ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú’s Student Accommodation services can be accessed here. We have rooms allocated for ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú students in the University of London’s halls of residence around Bloomsbury. We can also help you find private accommodation around London and offer accommodation-related legal advice.

Reading lists

Because learning begins even before you arrive at ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú, you are welcome to start preparing for your course by engaging with the following suggested reading materials, divided into subject areas.

  • Journalism (BA level)

    • CONBOY, M. (2012) Journalism Studies: The Basics. London: Routledge
    • FIRMSTONE, J. (2024) The Shaping of News. Basingstoke: Palgrave
    • MARKHAM, T. (2022) Media and Everyday Life. London: Bloosmbury
    • McNAIR, B. (2016) News and Journalism in the UK. London: Routledge
    • McQUAIL, D. (2013) Journalism and Society. London: Sage

  • Film and Media (BA level)

    • BORDWELL, DAVID & THOMPSON, KRISTIN (2008) Film Art: An Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill
    • GIBBS, JOHN (2002) Mise-en-scène: Film Style and Interpretation. London: Wallflower
    • MONACO, JAMES (2009) How to Read a Film: Movies, Media and Beyond. Oxford University Press
    • (2011)

  • Japanese Studies (BA level)

    • GORDON, A. (2019) A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. Oxford University Press
    • HENDRY, JOY. (2012) Understanding Japanese Society. London: Routledge

  • VICTORIAN STUDIES (MA level)

    • Primary reading
      • Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre (1847)
      • Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
      • Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton (1848)
      • Pater, Walter. Imaginary Portraits (1887)
      • Rossetti, Rossetti. Goblin Market (1862)
      • Levy, Amy. The Romance of a Shop (1888)
      • Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest (1890)
      • Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
    • General Overviews of the period
      • Briggs, Asa, Victorian Things, London: Batsford, 1988 
      • Briggs, Asa, Victorian Cities, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987
      • Desmarais, et al, The Oxford Handbook of Decadence,Ìý2020
      • Harris, José, Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain 1870-1914, London: Penguin, 1994
      • Hilton, Boyd, A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? : England, 1783-1846, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006
      • Hobsbawm, E. J, The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848, London: Abacus, 1997
      • Hobsbawm, E. J, The Age of Capital: 1848-1875, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1997
      • Hoppen, K, Theodore, The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-1886, Oxford: Clarendon, 1998
      • Flint, Kate, The Victorians and the Visual Imagination Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000
      • Lambourne, Lionel, Victorian Painting, London: Phaidon, 1999 
      • Ledger, Sally, and Roger Luckhurst, The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History, c.1880-1900 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 
      • Nead, Lynda, Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2000
      • Smith, et al. Artist and Empire: Facing Britain's Imperial Past, 2015
      • Stedman Jones, Gareth, Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship between Classes in Victorian Society, Clarendon Press, 1971
      • Teukolsky, Rachel, Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media,Ìý2020

Contact Your admissions tutor

If you have a specific enquiry about your course and studies, please find your course below and contact the admissions tutor.