Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three full units and a dissertation as shown below.
Paper |
Course number and title |
1
|
MC408
|
Theories and Concepts in Media and Communication I (Key concepts and interdisciplinary approaches) |
|
MC418
|
Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications II (Processes of communication in modern life) (H) |
2
|
MC4M1
|
Methods of Research in Media & Communications (including Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis) (H) |
3 |
Courses to the value of one and a half units from the following ‡ : |
|
GI403
|
Gender and Media Representation (H) |
GI408
|
Cultural Constructions of the Body (H) (n/a 11/12) |
GI410
|
Screening the Present: contemporary cinema and cultural critique (H) |
IS418
|
Digital Convergence and Information Services (H) |
IS470
|
Innovation and Information Systems: Concepts and Perspectives (H) |
IS581
|
Interpretations of Information (H) |
LL407
|
Media and Communications Regulation (H) |
LL4H2
|
Media Law: Regulating Publication (H) |
LL4H3
|
Media Law: Regulating Newsgathering (H) |
MC401
|
Mediated Resistance and Citizens (H) |
MC402
|
The Audience in Media and Communications (H) |
MC403
|
Contemporary Issues in Media and Communications Regulation (H) |
|
MC405
|
Current Issues in Media and Communications (H) |
MC407
|
International Media and The Global South (H) |
MC409
|
Media, Technology and Everyday Life (H) |
MC413
|
Information, Communication and Knowledge Systems (H) |
MC416
|
Representation in the Age of Globalisation (H)
|
MC420
|
Identity, Transnationalism and the Media (H) |
MC421
|
Critical Approaches to Media, Communication and Development (H) |
MC422
|
Critical Studies in Media and Journalism (H) |
MC423
|
Global Media Industries (H) |
MC424
|
Media and Communication Governance (H) |
MC425
|
Interpersonal Mediated Communication (H) |
MC426
|
Film Theory and World Cinema (H) |
MC427
|
Digital Media Futures (H)
|
MY427
|
Qualitative Research With Non-Traditional Data (H) |
PS415
|
The Social Psychology of Economic Life (H) (n/a 11/12) |
PS429
|
The Social Psychology of Communication |
PS439
|
Science, Technology and Resistance (H) |
PS447
|
Psychoanalysis and Communication (H) |
SO433
|
Cultural Theory (H) |
|
Any other MSc level course which is offered in the School, subject to the consent of the candidate's programme director. |
4 |
MC499 |
Dissertation (10,000-12,000 words)* |
|
|
|
MSc Media and Communications (Media and Communication Governance) |
1 |
MC408
|
Theories and Concepts in Media and Communication I (Key concepts and interdisciplinary approaches) (H) |
2 |
MC4M1
|
Methods of Research in Media & Communications (including Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis) (H) |
3 |
MC424
|
Media and Communication Governance (H) |
4 |
Courses to the value of one full unit from the following: |
|
EU421
|
Policy-Making in the European Union (H) |
|
IS418
|
Digital Convergence and Information Services (H) |
|
IS470
|
Innovation and Information Systems: Concepts and Perspectives (H) |
|
IS581
|
Interpretations of Information (H) |
|
LL407
|
Media and Communications Regulation (H) |
|
LL4H2
|
Media Law: Regulating Publications (H) |
|
LL4H3
|
Media Law: Regulating Newsgathering (H) |
|
LL4S1
|
Cyberlaw (H) |
|
MC403
|
Contemporary Issues in Media and Communications Regulation (H) |
|
MC405
|
Current Issues in Media and Communications (H) |
5 |
One of the following half unit courses: |
|
IS418
|
Digital Convergence and Information Services (H)** |
|
IS581
|
Interpretations of Information (H)** |
|
MC401
|
Mediated Resistance and Citizens (H) |
|
MC402
|
The Audience in Media and Communications (H) |
|
MC404
|
Political Communication (H) |
|
MC405
|
Current Issues in Media and Communications (H)** |
|
MC407
|
International Media and The Global South (H) |
|
MC413
|
Information, Communication and Knowledge Systems (H) |
|
MC418
|
Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications II (Processes of communication in modern life) |
|
MC421
|
Critical Approaches to Media, Communication and Development (H) |
|
MC423
|
Global Media Industries (H)
|
|
MC425
|
Interpersonal Mediated Communication (H) |
|
MC427
|
Digital Media Futures (H)
|
|
PS415
|
The Social Psychology of Economic Life (H) (n/a 11/12) |
|
Any other half unit paper which is offered in the School at master's level, subject to the consent of the student's teachers |
6 |
MC499 |
Dissertation (10,000-12,000 words)* |
|
|
Notes |
*Passing this course is a requirement for passing the programme
‡ Students can take up to one full unit of courses outside the Media and Communications Department (non MC-prefixed courses)
** If not taken under Paper 4 |
