Year 1 at LSE

Students take a total of three LSE units and a dissertation as shown.

Paper 1

A

MC408 Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications (0.5) #

And one of the following 0.5 unit courses:

MC4M1 Methods of Research in Media & Communications (including Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis) (0.5)

MC4M7 Methods of Research in Media & Communications (including Qualitative Analysis & Applied Regression Analysis) (0.5) #

Paper 2

MC411 Media and Globalisation (0.5)

Paper 3

B

Courses to the value of 1.5 unit(s) from the following:

GI422 Transnational Sexual Politics (1.0)

MC407 International Media and The Global South (0.5) #

MC416 Representation in the Age of Globalisation (0.5) #

MC420 Identity, Transnationalism and the Media (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

MC423 Global Media Industries (0.5) #

MC426 Film Theory and World Cinema (0.5) #

MC428 Media Culture and Neoliberalism in the Global South (0.5) #

MC429 Humanitarian Communication: Realities, Challenges and Critiques (0.5) #

MC433 Technology and Justice (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

MC435 Disruptive Digital Worlds: Competing Economic and Political Economy Explanations (0.5) (withdrawn 2022/23)

MC436 Mediating the Past (0.5) #

MC437 Media, Data and Social Order (0.5) #

MC438 Mediated Feminisms (0.5) #

MC439 Media, Technology, and the Body (0.5) #

Paper 4

C

MC499 Dissertation: Media and Communications (1.0)

Year 2 at UCT

Paper 5

Students are required to complete a minor dissertation research project or creative production, two compulsory taught courses and two elective taught courses of which no more than one can be at HEQF Level 8 (4000 level).Compulsory courses FAM4011F/S Media Internship (HEQF Credits 24, HEQF Level 8)FAM5013F Advanced Media Methodology (HEQF Credits 24, HEQF Level 9)FAM5006W Master's Media Research Project Or FAM5012W Master's Media Creative Production (HEQF Credits 96, HEQF Level 9)Elective courses Students select one F elective and one S elective course from the list below. Not all electives may be offered every year and only one elective may be on HEQF Level 8 (4000 level). One of the two elective courses may be taken in another cognate UCT department such as the Centre for African Studies, Historical Studies, Political Studies, or Anthropology:AM4007F Narrative Literary JournalismFAM4010F Media Markets and Media Strategy FAM4013F Political CommunicationFAM4017F Advanced Television Analysis FAM4032F Understanding Public Argumentation FAM4033F Screenwriting FAM5039F Approaches to African CinemaFAM4004S Avant-Garde Film FAM4014S Political Journalism FAM4015S Environmental DocumentaryFAM4016S Wildlife DocumentaryFAM4031S South African Public Rhetoric FAM4034S Forms and Theories of AdaptationFAM5011S Media and the Public Domain FAM5016S Creative Non-Fiction FAM5036S Rhetoric of SA Social MemoryFAM5038S Mobile Media and Communications FAM5040S Conceptualising SA Cinema