MSc Media, Communication and Development

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

MC421

Critical Approaches to Media, Communication and Development (H)

2

MC408
 

Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications I (Key concepts and interdisciplinary approaches) (H)

3

MC4M1

Methods of Research in Media & Communications (including Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis) (H)

4

Three half-unit courses from the following ‡ :

 

MC401

Mediated Resistance and Citizens (H)

MC402

The Audience in Media and Communications (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)

MC418

Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications II (Processes of communication in modern life) (H)

 

MC420

Identity, Transnationalism and the Media (H)

MC423

Global Media Industries (H)

MC424

Media and Communication Governance (H)

MC425

Interpersonal Mediated Communication (H)

MC426

Film Theory and World Cinema (H)

DV423

Global Political Economy of Development I (H)

DV424

Global Political Economy of Development II (H)

DV475

IT and Development

DV483

Aspects of IT and Socio-economic Development (H)

GI402

Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice (H)

GI403

Gender and Media Representation (H)

GI405

Globalising Sexualities (H)

GI408

Cultural Constructions of the Body (H) (n/a 11/12)

GV427

Democracy in East and South Asia (H)

GV443

The State and Political Institutions in Latin America (H)

GV4C9

Democratization and its Discontents in Southeast Asia (H)

 

IS479

Information Systems for the Public Sector (H)

PS418

Social Psychology of Health Communication (H) (n/a 11/12)

SO445

New Media, Development and Globalisation (H) (n/a 11/12)

Any other MSc level course which is offered in the School, subject to the consent of the candidate's programme director.

5

MC499

Dissertation: Media and Communications (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)

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