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

MC408

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

 

MC418

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

2

MC4M2

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

3

Courses to the value of one unit from the following:

 

GI403

Gender and Media Representation (H)

GI410

Screening the Present: contemporary cinema and cultural critique (H)

IS418

Social Computing, Data and Information Services (H)

IS470

Innovation and Information Systems: Concepts and Perspectives (H)

IS581

Interpretations of Information (H)

LL407

Media and Communications Regulation (H) (n/a 14/15)

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 Policy (H)

MC405

Current Issues in Media and Communications: Policies for ICTs, Society and Development  (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)

MC428

Media Culture and Neoliberalism in the Global South (H)

MY427

Qualitative Research With Non-Traditional Data (H)

PS415

The Social Psychology of Economic Life (H)

PS429

The Social Psychology of Communication 

PS439

Science, Technology and Resistance (H)  (n/a 14/15)

PS447

Psychoanalysis and Communication (H) (n/a 14/15)

SO433

Cultural Theory (H) (n/a 14/15)

SO471

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

MC499

Dissertation (10,000-12,000 words)*

Notes

*Passing this course is a requirement for passing the programme