Year 1 at LSE

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

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

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)

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) #

MC440 Children, Youth and Media (0.5) #

Any other MSc-level course which is offered in the School, subject to the consent of the candidate's programme director. NOTE: Students can take no more than one full unit of courses from outside the department of Media and Communications (non MC-prefixed courses).

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).