MSc in Media and Communications (Research)
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 | Theories and Concepts in Media and Communication I (Key concepts and interdisciplinary approaches) (H) | |
| 
 | Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications II (Processes of communication in modern life) (H) | |
| 2 | Advanced Methods of Research in Media & Communications (including Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis)* | |
| 3 | Courses to the value of one unit from the following: | |
| 
 | Gender and Media Representation (H) | |
| Screening the Present: contemporary cinema and cultural critique (H) | ||
| Social Computing, Data and Information Services (H) | ||
| Innovation and Information Systems: Concepts and Perspectives (H) | ||
| Interpretations of Information (H) | ||
| Media and Communications Regulation (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
| Media Law: Regulating Publication (H) | ||
| Media Law: Regulating Newsgathering (H) | ||
| Mediated Resistance and Citizens (H) | ||
| The Audience in Media and Communications (H) | ||
| Contemporary Issues in Media and Communications Policy (H) | ||
| Current Issues in Media and Communications: Policies for ICTs, Society and Development (H) | ||
| 
 | International Media and The Global South (H) | |
| Media, Technology and Everyday Life (H) | ||
| Information, Communication and Knowledge Systems (H) | ||
| Representation in the Age of Globalisation (H) | ||
| Identity, Transnationalism and the Media (H) | ||
| Critical Approaches to Media, Communication and Development (H) | ||
| Critical Studies in Media and Journalism (H) | ||
| Global Media Industries (H) | ||
| Media and Communication Governance (H) | ||
| Interpersonal Mediated Communication (H) | ||
| Film Theory and World Cinema (H) | ||
| Digital Media Futures (H) | ||
| Media Culture and Neoliberalism in the Global South (H) | ||
| Qualitative Research With Non-Traditional Data (H) | ||
| The Social Psychology of Economic Life (H) | ||
| The Social Psychology of Communication | ||
| Science, Technology and Resistance (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
| Psychoanalysis and Communication (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
| Cultural Theory (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
| Technology, Power and Culture (H) | ||
| 
 | Any other MSc level course which is offered in the School, subject to the consent of the candidate's programme director. | |
| 4 | Dissertation (10,000-12,000 words)* | |
| Notes | ||
| *Passing this course is a requirement for passing the programme | ||

