2019/20 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue
MA Film, Photography and Media
Programme code: | MA-COMM/FPM | UCAS code: | |
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Duration: | 12 Months | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr James Brogden | Contact address: | j.w.brogden@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 180
Entry requirements:
Good first degree. Practical experience in either film making or photography at undergraduate or professional equivalent to be assessed by personal statement, interview/portfolio.
An IELTS Band Score of 6.5, with 7.0 preferred and with not less than 6.0 in any skill area or
Internet Based TOEFL 94 overall (with not less than 21 in Listening, 23 in Reading, 23 in Speaking and 24 in Writing)
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:
This new programme has been specially designed to reflect key contemporary debates in practice and critical thinking around film, photography and media. In this sense it takes a distinctive approach to both the historic and contemporary relationship between these two dominant forms of visual communication and allows students to develop their own practice within a changing and challenging set of intellectual, creative and industrial contexts.
The new convergent digital technology of the DSLR camera seems to be forcing a dénouement in terms of the way in which we create and think about the future of cinema and photography and how we need to think about their evolving relationship. As we move into the seemingly uncharted territory of a so-called 'post-photographic' and 'post-cinematic' age how can we define what is happening and attempt to frame it within cultural and critical discourses? Conversely how can we use critical ideas to frame new convergent models of practice and understand what this means for the creative industries? This degree will allow for these debates to be explored through distinct and clearly defined frameworks of media, communications and technological histories, film and photographic theory and criticism, inter-medal practice and engagement with creative industrial processes. Importantly, the programme emphasises the creative / dialectical relationships / opportunities between the lens-based image (both still and moving) within a broader visual culture in which practice, critical theory and historical discourses exist.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
COMM5805M | Cultures of Contemporary Photography | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
COMM5815M | Cinematics and Photography | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 60 credits from the following optional modules:
COMM5600M | Dissertation and Research Methods | 60 credits | 1 Oct to 30 Sep (12mth) | |
COMM5800M | Final Independent Project | 60 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following optional modules:
COMM5170M | Television Narrative | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
COMM5250M | Feminism, Identity and Media | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
COMM5260M | Understanding the Audience | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
COMM5380M | The Media and Democratisation: Global Perspectives | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
COMM5730M | The Cultural History of Promotional Communication | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
COMM5801M | Urban Narratives | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
EAST5037M | Transnational East Asian Cinemas | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL5014M | Rhetoric and Public Speaking | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL5028M | International Organisations: Context, Theory and Practice | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PECI5209M | Critical Debates in Culture and Place | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PECI5402M | Story Workshop | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following optional modules:
COMM5160M | Critical Studies in Visual Communication | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
COMM5370M | International Film Industries | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
COMM5550M | Popular Music and Society | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
COMM5695M | Communication and Development | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
COMM5705M | Identity and Culture | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
EAST5055M | Stylistic Aesthetics of Chinese Language in Media and Communication | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MODL5016M | Managing Business Across Cultures | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MODL5050M | Writing for Professional Purposes | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PECI5208M | Cultural Policy | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PECI5404M | Writing for Film and Television | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP5240M | Racism, Decoloniality and Migration | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP5360M | Researching Inequality in the Media | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP5370M | Reality TV: Truth or Fiction? | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP5380M | Videogames and Society | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Elective modules:
Candidates may study 0 - 30 credits of postgraduate level electives, or Discovery modules aimed at final year undergraduates. (Such modules have a 3 or a 5 as the first digit in the module code)
Last updated: 25/09/2019
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