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Start date:
September 2024
September 2025
Duration:
1 years (full-time)
2 years (part-time)
Please add an additional year if undertaking the Professional Experience Year: integrated 2-year masters
Number of credits:
MA: 180
PGDip: 120
PGCert: 60
An experience like no other. Understand how media and communications shapes our social, cultural and political discourse. You'll learn how you can make a material impact on the world through effective strategic communication.
Did you know?
This Media and Communication Programme is accredited by The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). The accreditation provides students with the opportunity to be part of a worldwide community of members and the opportunity to enhance their employability by taking CIM globally recognised professional qualifications in their initial steps towards Chartered Status.
Modules
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Professional Experience Year
This course also offers the option of a Professional Experience Year. This programme combines dynamic career modules with flexible placement opportunities. After completing your first year of study, you'll then complete a full year of Professional Experience training as part of your degree. This will give you real career experience. This unique opportunity offers you distinct paths to build your expertise.
Skills
Skills to get you ready for an exciting career.
This professionally orientated MA Media and Communications course is aimed at providing you with the practical and theoretical knowledge to understand and work within the media industry both in the UK and internationally.
Throughout this course, you will develop digital and professional skills in:
- audience research
- the production of audio-visual media content
- data analytics to successfully execute
- evaluating digital communications campaigns
You will gain critical skills in qualitative and quantitative research methods which will help you to conduct descriptive statistical analysis of your communications and reflect on the critical and ethical concepts of media through different formats.
Learning
A course built around you.
This course will be conducted through seminars and practical workshops where students will be supported to build their abilities to a professional level.
Teaching will be led by subject- specialists with input from practitioners offering guest presentations and workshops.
In the Autumn semester, you will learn the common conceptual and theoretical understanding of media whilst developing the fundamentals of data analysis, research, and audio-visual media production.
In the Spring semester, you will expand on your critical and professional skills that will enable you to create purpose-driven communications campaigns and produce compelling narratives across media platforms.
Finally, you will complete a Major Project which will demonstrate the skills learnt in research, production, and evaluation as you build a professional-standard digital communications campaign and critically reflect the outcome.
Assessment
Put your knowledge into practice.
Assessments on this course will be:
- conducted to resemble professional formats
- focus on building your individual portfolio
- prepare you for working in a professional environment after graduation
You will complete your MA with the powerful understanding of how different types of media can be deployed to facilitate social and cultural change and be well placed to enter numerous industries that require multi-skilled communications professionals.
Career
The MA programme is designed with professional communications roles in mind. There is significant growth in employment opportunities within the new and emerging media and communications roles for graduates with strong digital communications and production skills.
Career routes for graduates include:
- Market and audience-research roles
- Social media and web analytics roles within communications teams
- Social media executive (creating content and coordinating social media activity)
- Digital media officer
- (digital) media planner
You will also be able to conduct yourself in similar roles that require a combination of analytical, creative and communications skills.
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Applying
UK postgraduate students apply through our direct application system.
General entry requirements
September 2024 entry tuition fees (UK)
| Level of study | Full-time | Part-time* |
| MA | £9,713 | £5,099 |
| PGDip | £6,475 | £3,400 |
| PGCert | £3,238 | £1,700 |
*average fee per year
We offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries. See our 2024 financial support pages for UK students.
We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you.
International postgraduate students apply through our direct application system.
General entry requirements
September 2024 entry tuition fees (international)
| Level of study | Full-time | Part-time* |
| MA | £17,325 | £9,096 |
| PGDip | £11,550 | £6,064 |
| PGCert | £5,775 | £3,032 |
*average fee per year
We offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries. See our 2024 financial support pages for international students.
We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you.
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