The Media Studies course is offered in S5 and S6 at National 4 level. It allows pupils to progress from National 4 or 5 English and to follow a different path to that of standard English studies.

One of the aims of a Course in Media Studies is to enable the candidate to look at and listen to media products, not simply as a consumer of those products, but as a critic, able to question the content and purpose of the messages rather than take them at face value.

The media texts may be newspapers or magazines, television or radio programmes, cinema films, advertisements, music videos and websites.