MSc in Media, Communication and Development

Programme Code: TMMECODE

Department: Media & Communications

This information is for the 2016/17 session.

Full year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three full units and a dissertation as shown below. 

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

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: Policies for ICTs, Society and Development (H)

MC407

International Media and The Global South (H) (n/a 16/17)

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) (n/a 16/17)

MC424

Media and Communication Governance (H)

MC425

Interpersonal Mediated Communication (H)

MC426

Film Theory and World Cinema (H)

MC428

Media Culture and Neoliberalism in the Global South (H)

MC429

Humanitarian Communication: vulnerability, discourse and power (H) (n/a 16/17)

MC433

Technology and Justice (H)

DV423

Global Political Economy of Development (H)

DV424

International Institutions and Late Development (H)

DV483

Information Communication Technologies and Socio-economic Development (H)

GI425

Women, Peace and Security (H)

GV443

The State and Political Institutions in Latin America (H) (n/a 16/17)

 

MG479

Information Systems for the Public Sector (H)

PS418

Health Communication (H)

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)