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    MA 1 year, full-time

Course Description

This multi-disciplinary degree will provide you with a unique academic challenge if you are looking to develop your career in media, creative and cultural industries, or build a future career in academia. The course combines cultural studies with media and sociology and explores processes and activities, from local to global levels.

Through a combination of core and option modules, you will be introduced to the very latest research and theory in the study of our contemporary culture and the digital realm, and how our world is portrayed in the media. Optional modules range from a number relating to digital media, through to an array of others which explore such areas as gender and sexuality, creativity and consumption, and the global dynamics of cultural production.

As well as learning through lectures, seminars and tutorials, one of the core modules will include interviews and workshops with top researchers in the fields of sociology, media and communication, and cultural studies.

Entry Requirements

  • 2:1 degree from a British university in Media/Communication Studies, Politics, Sociology, Social/Cultural/Political Theory or Cultural Studies
  • Equivalent academic or professional qualification

We can give special consideration to applicants who have significant work experience in a relevant field.

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Fees

For fees and funding options, please visit website to find out more.

Programme Funding

There are a number of possible sources of funding: loans and grants, bursaries and scholarships.

Student Destinations

Successful completion of this course will demonstrate to potential employers that you have a high level of knowledge in the field, and as our course has a strong emphasis on research methods and training, you will develop a range of transferable skills which are directly applicable to the professional world.

This course has a strong research and theoretical content of this course providing a solid foundation for your to progress to study at doctoral level.

Module Details

Core modules

  • Contemporary Issues in Media and Cultural Studies
  • Exploring the Social World
  • Social and Cultural Theory

Plus your Media and Communication Dissertation

Option modules

Choose four option modules from:

  • Global Affairs: Actors, Communication and Culture
  • Media Audiences and Users
  • Health Communication Theory and Practice
  • Global Communications and Development
  • Critical Approaches to Data Analytics and the Digital Economy
  • Critical Approaches to Consumer Culture
  • Gender Politics in Contemporary Media
  • Digital Media, Online Persuasion and Behavioural Change
  • Advertising Creativity
  • Media Ethics
  • The Globalisation of Sexuality: Culture and Media
  • Digital Media in Everyday Life

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