📖Program Curriculum
The compulsory core modules provide you with a comprehensive grounding in the theoretical and empirical approaches to studying media institutions texts and communication practices
With a broad choice of option modules you can specialise in research areas that interest you and examine various media industries and communication practices within their historical economic political and social contexts
Core modules
Media and Communication Dissertation
Media and Globalisation
From Mass Media to New Media Theories Approaches Applications
Optional modules
Freedom Censorship and Subversion
Cinematic Animals Monsters Beasts and Humans on Film
Creating Magazines Content and Context
Special Study Multi-Platform Political Communication
Marketing and Communication in Publishing
Television Production
The Professional Placement module is a core module for those students following a masters programme that incorporates professional placement learning following completion of 120 credits It provides students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills in an appropriate working environment and to develop and enhance key employability skills and subject specific professional skills in their chosen subject
You may wish to use the placement experience as a platform for your subsequent major project module and can use it to help inform your decisions about future careers
