MSc in Media and Communications
Programme Code: TMMEC
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 | |
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1 |
Theories and Concepts in Media and Communication I (Key concepts and interdisciplinary approaches) (H) | |
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Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications II (Processes of communication in modern life) (H) | |
2 |
Methods of Research in Media & Communications (including Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis) (H) | |
3 |
Courses to the value of one and a half units from the following ‡ : | |
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Gender and Media Representation (H) | |
Screening the Present: contemporary cinema and cultural critique (H) | ||
Sexuality, Gender and Culture (H) | ||
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) | ||
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Current Issues in Media and Communications: Policies for ICTs, Society and Development (H) | ||
International Media and The Global South (H) (n/a 16/17) | ||
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) (n/a 16/17) | ||
Media and Communication Governance (H) | ||
Interpersonal Mediated Communication (H) | ||
Film Theory and World Cinema (H) | ||
Digital Media Futures (H) (n/a 16/17) | ||
Media Culture and Neoliberalism in the Global South (H) | ||
Humanitarian Communication: vulnerability, discourse and power (H) (n/a 16/17) | ||
Technology and Justice (H) | ||
Social Computing, Data and Information Services (H) | ||
Innovation and Information Systems: Concepts and Perspectives (H) | ||
Interpretations of Information (H) | ||
Qualitative Research With Non-Traditional Data (H) (n/a 16/17) | ||
Social Psychology of Economic Life: Advanced Topics (H) | ||
The Social Psychology of Communication and PS443A Societal Psychology (unassessed) | ||
SO433 |
Cultural Theory (H) (withdrawn 16/17) | |
Technology, Power and Culture (H) | ||
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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 | ||
‡ Students can take up to one full unit of courses outside the Media and Communications Department (non MC-prefixed courses) | ||
* Passing this course is a requirement for passing the programme | ||
