MSc in Politics and Communication

Programme code: TMPOCOM

Department: Media & Communications

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

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
 

MC404

Political Communication (H)

MC408

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

2

MC419

Modern Campaigning Politics (H)

MC4M1

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

3
 

Options to the value of 1.0 units:

MC401

Mediated Resistance and Citizens (H) (not available 2017/18)

MC402

The Audience in Media and Communications (H)

MC403

Contemporary Issues in Media and Communications Regulation (H)

MC405

Policy and Practice in ICTs and Development (H)

MC422

Critical Studies in Media and Journalism (H)

MC425

Interpersonal Mediated Communication (H) (not available 2017/18)

MC428

Media Culture and Neoliberalism in the Global South (H)

MC432

Strategic Communication in Practice: Professional Perspectives (H)

MC433

Technology and Justice (H)

Any other MSc-level course which is offered in the School, subject to the consent of the candidate's programme convenor

4

MC499

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

Notes

Students can take no more than one full unit of courses from outside the Department of Media and Communications (non-MC-prefixed courses)
* Passing this course is a requirement for passing the programme