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Course number, title (unit value)

Paper 1

MC408 Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications I (Key concepts and interdisciplinary approaches) (0.5)

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

Paper 2

MC411 Media and Globalization (0.5)

Paper 3

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

DV429 Global Civil Society (0.5)  (withdrawn 2018/19)

GI422 Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation (1.0)

MC405 Policy and Practice in ICTs and Development (0.5)

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)

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: vulnerability, discourse and power (0.5)

MC433 Technology and Justice (0.5) ^#

MC435 Disruptive Digital Worlds: Competing Economic and Political Economy Explanations (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

MC499 Dissertation: Media and Communications (1.0) ^A

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 Journalism
FAM4010F Media Markets and Media Strategy 
FAM4013F Political Communication
FAM4017F Advanced Television Analysis 
FAM4032F Understanding Public Argumentation 
FAM4033F Screenwriting 
FAM5039F Approaches to African Cinema
FAM4004S Avant-Garde Film 
FAM4014S Political Journalism 
FAM4015S Environmental Documentary
FAM4016S Wildlife Documentary
FAM4031S South African Public Rhetoric 
FAM4034S Forms and Theories of Adaptation
FAM5011S Media and the Public Domain 
FAM5016S Creative Non-Fiction 
FAM5036S Rhetoric of SA Social Memory
FAM5038S Mobile Media and Communications 
FAM5040S Conceptualising SA Cinema