2023/24 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: | Miriam Kent | Contact address: | M.R.Kent@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) | |
| COMM5825M | Film Theory and Practice | 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:
| ARTF5193M | Humanity, Animality and Globality | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| COMM5140M | Media and Communication Theory | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| COMM5200M | Communication and International Affairs | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| COMM5235M | Promotional Media, Culture and Society | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| COMM5250M | Feminism, Identity and Media | 30 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
| COMM5260M | Understanding the Audience | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| COMM5615M | Keywords in Political Communication | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| COMM5645M | Journalism Theory and Research | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| COMM5705M | Identity and Culture | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| COMM5710M | The Media Industries | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL5700M | Writing, Archives, Race | 30 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
| ENGL5835M | The Literature of Crisis: Politics and Gender in 1790s Britain | 30 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
| ENGL5845M | Writing Identities: Criticism, Creativity, Practice | 30 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
| 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) | |
| PECI5214M | Creativity and Innovation Management | 30 credits | ||
| PECI5406M | Narrative Perspectives in Practice | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP5320M | Theorising Gender | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP5355M | Inequalities: Exploring causes, Consequences and Interventions | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following optional modules:
| ARTF5009M | Making Sense of Sound | 30 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
| ARTF5032M | Movies, Migrants and Diasporas | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| COMM5005M | Contemporary Debates in Media and Communication | 30 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
| COMM5160M | Critical Studies in Visual Communication | 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 | Not running in 202324 | |
| COMM5801M | Urban Narratives | 30 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
| COMM5866M | Global migration, ‘race’ and media | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5737M | Postcolonialism, Animals and the Environment | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL5828M | Global Indigeneity | 30 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) | |
| PECI5218M | Cultural Policy and the Politics of Culture | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| PECI5407M | Digital and Intermedial Storytelling | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| PECI5409M | Script Development 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) |
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)
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