The MA in Media and Cultural Studies examines the different yet closely related fields rooted in the humanities and social sciences that are concerned with the construction of meanings, experiences, identities and relationships in various institutional and day-to-day contexts of social life. The programme offers opportunities to explore a wide range of film, TV, print, Internet and other new technologies of communication and the theoretical and critical debates, social and historical contexts which have helped shape how we think about research into those media forms. You will also engage with broader theories of contemporary society and the politics and cultural power of institutions, texts and epistemologies. The programme begins with two core modules: * Engaging with Theory: Key Thinkers, Texts and Contexts * Research Methods in Film, Media & Cultural Studies. These modules are designed to enable conceptual and practical skills for advanced research in media and cultural studies. You then move on to choose three option modules and complete a supervised dissertation allowing you the opportunity to pursue your own topic of particular interest. Staff teaching on the programme are members of the Centre for Research in Media & Cultural Studies CRMCS, many are known nationally and internationally for their published work in these fields Staff Profiles. Teaching on the MA programme is seminar and tutorial based and your progress will be assessed by essays, projects, presentations and the dissertation.

Some graduates progress to higher degree research. Graduates of this MA programme have been very successful in securing funded PhD places at leading academic institutions in the UK. Other graduates have gone on to teach in Further and Higher Education. Many students enrolling on the programme will already be employed in a wide variety of professions, and see an MA as a way of enhancing their existing careers.