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2023/24 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue

MA Promotional Media

Programme code:MA-COMM/PMUCAS code:
Duration:12 Months Method of Attendance: Full Time
Programme manager:Dr Leslie Meier Contact address:l.meier@leeds.ac.uk

Total credits: 180

Entry requirements:

Good first degree in a related subject
Applicants whose first language is not English will be required to provide evidence of their English language proficiency. Recognized tests are IELTS with a required overall score of 6.5 with no element below 6.0, or equivalent TOEFL score.

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of Media and Communication

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of Media and Communication

Programme specification:

The programme will:
This programme will provide students with an in-depth understanding of the promotional media and communications industries and their role in social, cultural and economic life. Currently, various forms of promotional communication such as public relations, advertising and marketing are taught from a vocational perspective with a focus on established practices and skills. This leaves little time to focus on the social impacts of these communications practices for fields as diverse as journalism, the music industry and public communication. In each of these fields forms of promotional communication seek to influence the attitudes, values and behaviours of target audiences and this programme will focus on interrogating these processes. Media-related degrees, on the other hand, provide in-depth critiques of the media industries, but without taking sufficient account of the ways public relations works with those industries to shape their overall effects. While such teaching is valuable in its own right, it does not equip students with the tools to evaluate the ways in which promotional communication shapes the ways we understand the world around us, both directly and through its relationship with other social institutions. Nor does it develop the ability to evaluate the ways in which promotional media forms help to sustain or challenge the power of dominant social groups at local, national and global level. Yet these capabilities are increasingly important in a world where promotional communication is more widespread than it has ever been.

Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

COMM5235MPromotional Media, Culture and Society30 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
COMM5600MDissertation and Research Methods60 credits1 Oct to 30 Sep (12mth)
COMM5730MThe Cultural History of Promotional Communication30 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following optional modules:

ARTF5193MHumanity, Animality and Globality30 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
COMM5200MCommunication and International Affairs30 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
COMM5250MFeminism, Identity and Media30 creditsNot running in 202324
COMM5260MUnderstanding the Audience30 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
COMM5540MThe Reporting of Politics30 creditsNot running in 202324
COMM5615MKeywords in Political Communication30 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
COMM5705MIdentity and Culture30 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL5700MWriting, Archives, Race30 creditsNot running in 202324
ENGL5835MThe Literature of Crisis: Politics and Gender in 1790s Britain30 creditsNot running in 202324
ENGL5845MWriting Identities: Criticism, Creativity, Practice30 creditsNot running in 202324
MODL5014MRhetoric and Public Speaking15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL5028MInternational Organisations: Context, Theory and Practice15 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PECI5204MTheoretical Perspectives: Culture, Creativity and Entrepreneurship30 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
PECI5209MCritical Debates in Culture and Place30 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
PECI5214MCreativity and Innovation Management30 credits 
SLSP5320MTheorising Gender30 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLSP5355MInequalities: Exploring causes, Consequences and Interventions30 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following optional modules:

ARTF5009MMaking Sense of Sound30 creditsNot running in 202324
ARTF5032MMovies, Migrants and Diasporas30 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
COMM5005MContemporary Debates in Media and Communication30 creditsNot running in 202324
COMM5160MCritical Studies in Visual Communication30 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
COMM5550MPopular Music and Society30 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
COMM5630MCommunication and Public Opinion30 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
COMM5695MCommunication and Development30 creditsNot running in 202324
COMM5796MClimate Communication30 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
COMM5866MGlobal migration, ‘race’ and media30 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL5737MPostcolonialism, Animals and the Environment30 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL5828MGlobal Indigeneity30 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MODL5016MManaging Business Across Cultures15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MODL5050MWriting for Professional Purposes15 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PECI5216MArts and Activism30 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
PECI5218MCultural Policy and the Politics of Culture30 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP5240MRacism, Decoloniality and Migration30 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP5360MResearching Inequality in the Media30 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP5370MReality TV: Truth or Fiction?30 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP5380MVideogames and Society30 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Elective modules:

Last updated: 02/10/2023 15:12:30

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