Media modules
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We offer a wide range of option modules each year. Below are some examples of modules that are currently running. For a full list, including sample reading lists for each module, please contact the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies.
Please note that some modules have a limited capacity.
Due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.
Theory options
Module title | Credits |
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Music as Communication and Creative Practice (PG) | |
The Structure of Contemporary Political Communication (PG) | |
Race, Empire and Nation | |
Embodiment and Experience (Postgraduate) | |
Media, Law and Ethics (UG Second year) | |
Strategies of World Cinema | |
Archaeology of the Moving Image (Postgraduate) | |
Theories of the Culture Industry | |
Practical Methods 1 - Media Systems, Media Ecologies and Turbulence | |
Postcolonial Theory | |
Cultural Studies and Capitalism | |
Political Economy of the Media | |
Cultural Studies and Cultural Geography: Speed, Mobility and Territory | |
The City and Public Culture (Postgraduate) | |
Experimental Media | |
Media, Ritual and Contemporary Public Cultures (Postgraduate) | |
Representing Reality | |
Promotional Culture (Postgraduate) | |
Politics of the Audiovisual (Postgraduate) | |
Social Media in Everyday Life: A global perspective | |
Race and the Cultural Industries | |
Practices of the Culture Industry | |
Globalisation: Politics, Policy and Critique | |
Software Studies | |
Biopolitics & Aesthetics |
Students can take a maximum of 30 credits from the lists below.
Journalism options
Module title | Credits |
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Journalism in Context | |
Online News Reporting |
Screen school options
Module title | Credits |
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Camera Fundamentals | |
Contemporary Screen Narratives in Practice and Theory | |
Film Producing Fundamentals | |
Sound Design Fundamentals | |
The Ascent of the Image | |
Social Activist Film | |
Visual Storytelling | |
Film Editing Fundamentals | |
Developing the Screen Idea | |
Understanding the UK Media Industries - Fiction Production | |
Realising the Film: Production Values |