Students must take 180 credits comprised of 120 taught credits (including core, compulsory and option modules) and a 60-credit, 10,000-word dissertation. All students must take the core modules in addition to Qualitative Research Methods in Media and Communication.

Further options include a wide range of media and media-related courses from a comprehensive list offered by the Centre for Global Media and Communication and other constituent units in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies. All courses are assessed via written assignments.

Core

• Dissertation in Media Studies

Compulsory

• Qualitative Research Methods
• Theoretical and Contemporary Issues in Global Media and Digital Communication
• Topics in Global Media and Digital Communication

Guided Options (Choose 3 from List 1)

• Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics and Communications
• Transnational Communities and Diasporic Media: Networking, Connectivity, Identity
• International Journalisms in the Digital Context: Theory and Practice
• International Political Communication
• Podcasting
• Prejudice, Conspiracy and Misinformation: Understanding the Debate around '(Post)-Truth'
• Theoretical and Contemporary Issues in Media, Information Communication Technologies and Development
• Topics in Media, Information Communication Technologies and Development

Knowledge

• Ability to address the role of global media in Asia, Africa and the Middle East without pre-assuming media are all-powerful
• Understand the theoretical underpinnings and debates on the role of media and communication in politics, social lives, cultures and transformations
• Address the dynamics of the global, the regional and the local in a continuously changing media environment.
• Be able to analytically disaggregate economic, political, social and cultural strands of global media and communication in a neo-liberal environment
• Address the role of the media in identity formations, representations and cultures.

Intellectual (Thinking) skills

• To be critical and precise in their assessment of evidence, and to understand through practice what documents and electronic sources can and cannot tell us. Such skills should improve and be refined throughout the programme
• Question theories and interpretations, however authoritative, and critically reassess evidence for themselves. Students will learn how to question and challenge the Euro-centric dominant global media and communication approaches and provide evidence-based critique that takes into account different histories, including colonial and post-colonial histories, of media and communication in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. These skills should improve and be refined throughout the programme
• Critically interrogate situated empirical examples of specific media and communication practices in Asia, Africa, the Middle East

Subject-Based Practical Skills

• Communicate effectively in writing
• Retrieve, sift and select information from a variety of conventional and electronic sources
• Communicate orally to a group. Listen and discuss ideas introduced during seminars and classes.
• Practise research techniques in a variety of specialized research libraries and institutes.
• Have developed some new competencies in digital media production and dissemination

Transferable Skills

• Write good essays and dissertations
• Structure and communicate ideas effectively both orally and in writing
• Understand unconventional ideas
• Summarize your arguments in a coherent and critical way.
• Study a variety of written and digital materials, in libraries, online and research libraries of a kind they will not have used as undergraduates.
• Present material orally to a group.
• Have developed a range of online competencies

Graduates from the Centre for Global Media and Communications gain expertise in media, communications and film production within a global framework. Graduates develop a portfolio of transferable skills including communication skills, interpersonal skills and team work, which are highly respected by employers.

Recent graduates have been hired by:

• Africa Mediaworks Ltd.
• Al Jazeera
• Associated Press
• BBC
• Breakthrough Breast Cancer
• British Film Institute
• Channel 5
• Comic Relief
• Cordoba African Film Festival
• Discovery Communications
• Equality Now
• Hackney Film Festival
• International Channel Shanghai
• Internews Europe
• Merlin
• Novus
• Office for National Statistics
• Royal College of Art
• The Institute of Ismaili Studies
• Unilever
• United Nations
• Westminster City Council