2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue
MA Media Industries
| Programme code: | MA-COMM/MI | UCAS code: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration: | 12 Months | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
| Programme manager: | Anamik Saha | Contact address: | A.Saha@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 180
Entry requirements:
Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Media and Communication
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
N/A
Programme specification:
The programme is distinctive in that offers students knowledge and understanding of the media industries along the following set of dimensions:
- Sociocultural: The relationship between media industries and the social and cultural impacts of the media.
- Historical: The historical development of the media, including the industrialisation and commodification of cultural production
- Political: Efforts by governments (international, national and regional) to influence the size, structure and behaviour of media industries, through legislation, regulation and subsidy; how media industries seek to affect policy.
- Economic: Questions of ownership, power and control, including processes of concentration, conglomeration and integration, and the centrality of rights.
- Organisational: Historical tensions between creativity and commerce, and how media industries attempt to manage these tensions.
Considering each of these dimensions is integral to an advanced study of the Media Industries and facilitates a number of different career paths for our graduates from consultancy, to media production, to public relations.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
| COMM5600M | Dissertation and Research Methods | 60 credits | 1 Oct to 30 Sep (12mth) | |
| COMM5710M | The Media Industries | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| COMM5720M | Media Production Analysis | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following optional modules or may choose 30 credits’ worth of Level 3 or Level 5 Discovery module/s.
| COMM5005M | Contemporary Debates in Media and Communication | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| COMM5250M | Feminism, Identity and Media | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| COMM5260M | Understanding the Audience | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| COMM5705M | Identity and Culture | 30 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| COMM5801M | Urban Narratives | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following optional modules or may choose 30 credits’ worth of Level 3 or Level 5 Discovery modules.
| COMM5120M | Gender and Media Histories: Feminist Methods | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| COMM5160M | Critical Studies in Visual Communication | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| COMM5550M | Popular Music and Society | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| COMM5630M | Communication and Public Opinion | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| COMM5796M | Climate Communication | 30 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| COMM5866M | Global migration, ‘race’ and media | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Elective modules:
Last updated: 27/02/2024 15:00:06
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