This programme provides you with the knowledge and research expertise to address a wide range of questions in media and communications such as the changing social uses of media; media production, organization and control; issues of management, training and ethics in media practice; media regulation; comparative cross-national studies of media; analysis of media texts; the implications of media for the knowledge, beliefs and behaviours of audiences; media technologies; the contribution of media to economic growth, nation-building, community development, and individual identity and well-being.

Entry Requirements :

•  Applicants should normally have a minimum of a good second class undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline

•  Students with professional media experience or other qualifications deemed by the University to be equivalent to degree level study will also be considered

Course Duration and Structure :

• The course is structured in ten modules plus a dissertation (equivalent to two modules of study time). The modules are studied part-time over 24 months at a rate of one module approximately every two months

Programme Content :

• Key Issues and Approaches in Media Study
• Media History and Social Regulation
• Media in Global Context
• Communications and Globalization
• Investigating Media
• Media Industries: convergence, divergence
• Professional Practices
• Audience and Reception
• Media Texts
• Optional Modules:
• Media Texts
• Image and Representation
• Film and National Cinema
• Communication, Technology and Society
• The Political Economy of the New Media
• Political Communication
• E-Governance and e-Democracy: Theory and Practice
• Journalism: News Access and Source Power
• Critical Public Relations: Contexts & Issues
• Dissertation (12,000 - 15,000 words)